Latest Investment products News: Finextra Research

The Redsand Group to launch sustainable fintech fund

Founder and managing partner of The Redsand Group, Nicole Anderson, announced in a recent interview with Finextra TV that the group will launch a fund to work with the venture community to support fintech aimed at tackling sustainability across financial services through tools such as blockchain and tokenisation.

27 February 2020

News/startups

2020’s ‘fintech asset class’ is brimming with IPOs

With private markets continuing to show strong interest in fintech and many firms reaching maturity, Pawel Szaja, partner at Shearman and Sterling, predicts 2020 will deliver a surge of fintech IPOs.

25 February 2020

News/inclusion

JP Morgan acts as a Catalyst for financial inclusion

Finextra interviews Boston-based accelerator Catalyst Fund about JPMorgan's recent investment in its goal to boost financial inclusion across emerging markets.

17 February 2020

News/Investment products

A Segment of One: The new reality

Consumers now have access to all the information they need to define, compare and select the financial products and services that best serve their individual needs.

14 February 2020

Company update/inclusion

RBL Bank partners with Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance

RBL Bank, one of India’s fastest growing private sector banks in India and Bajaj Allianz Life, one of India’s leading private life insurer, entered into a strategic partnership to offer customised life insurance solutions to the Bank’s customers. Under this partnership, Bajaj Allianz Life will make available all its retail products to the Bank’s customers including Term, Savings, Retirement and Investment products to enable them achieve their life goals. The corporate agency agreement was signed between both the organisations in Mumbai, today.

12 February 2020

News/sustainable

SustainableFinance.Live will use healthy scepticism to promote ESG

Finextra Research will hold its second SustainableFinance.Live event on 23 March 2020 to peel away the misnomers and ‘greenwashed’ ideas about sustainable finance and explore the ways the industry can take proactive steps to deliver the UN SDGs.

12 February 2020

News/Investment products

Refinitiv partners with Google Cloud to power Tick History database

Refinitiv has announced the launch of its Tick History dataset on the Google Cloud platform, catering to a growing appetite for quant-trading technology.

11 February 2020

News/sustainable

ADB launches $50 million fund to support SDG-minded startups

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), has established the ADB Ventures platform to feed investment and support to Asian startups which are developing solutions aimed at achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

05 February 2020

News/sustainable

Can financial markets drive sustainability? Not with CAT bonds

France’s emlyon business school has found that resorting to catastrophe bonds (CAT bonds) to insure losses caused by extreme climate events only serves to make investors richer.

30 January 2020

News/sustainable

BlackRock recommends a common language for sustainable investing

Hot on the heels of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s letter warning global chief executives of climate change market risk, the world’s largest fund manager has released a summary of recommendations for sustainable investment.

28 January 2020

News/sustainable

Betting on AI to reduce risk in sustainable investment

The quest toward improving corporate sustainability is mired by uncertainty: uncertainty of emissions volume, extreme weather events, timing of such events, and inevitably, the toll they may take on investment. This uncertainty is regarded by investors as risk.

22 January 2020

News/regulation

Innovate Finance launches 36H Group to replace P2PFA

The UK fintech industry's representative body, Innovate Finance, has launched 36H Group in the wake of enforced regulations on lending platforms that accept retail investments.

13 January 2020

Company update/Investment products

GBST launches investment pathways functionality

GBST is adding new investment pathways functionality to its Composer® platform to support client preparations for the introduction of the pathways legislation in August 2020.

13 January 2020

News/Investment products

Citi’s data and analytics global head departs to launch fintech firm

Industry veteran Bill Pryor is understood to have left the investment bank to launch his own fintech company, Investics Data Services.

13 December 2019

News/Investment products

Nordic challenger Lunar targets entry-level investors

Lunar has set its stock trading feature live, after having joined forces with investment specialist Saxo Bank.

11 December 2019

Company update/security

Goldman Sachs leads £38 million funding for Secure Code Warrior

Global secure coding company Secure Code Warrior® today announced a Series B funding round of £38 million, representing the largest ever US investment of its kind for an Australian cybersecurity business.

11 December 2019

Company update/payments

FSS and AFS partner to promote digital payments in the Middle East

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a global payments products and solutions provider and payment processor, and Arab Financial Services (AFS), the leading payment solutions provider and FinTech enabler in the Middle East and Africa, have entered into an agreement to bring omni-channel payment acceptance solutions to banks in the region. The partnership combines FSS’ technology expertise in acquiring and payments, with AFS’ payments processing and hosted services capabilities to aid acquiring banks rapidly grow their merchant acceptance business.

11 December 2019

News/sustainable

ECB poised to champion climate change action under Lagarde

As part of a strategic review of the ECB’s purpose, the bank’s president Christine Lagarde will underline action on climate change as a fundamental component of monetary policy.

28 November 2019

News/Investment products

Robinhood readies investment product for early 2020 launch in UK

Robinhood is now inviting UK customers to sign up to receive early access to commission-free stocks when the broker app launches in early 2020.

20 November 2019

News/sustainable

MAS sets up $2bn green investments programme

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced a $2 billion green investments programme (GIP) to drive growth in sustainable finance in the country.

14 November 2019