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SETL, a blockchain-based settlement system for the investment funds industry, has gone live with its pan-European funds record keeping platform IZNES having successfully processed its first transactions.
11 January 2018
Company update/Investment products
FOLK2FOLK, the national, award winning lending platform for local and rural business announces it has enabled ISA transfers for new and existing customers.
10 January 2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has delayed the introduction of new rules on dark pool trading, a key part of its MiFID II initiative.
Mediant, a leading provider of investor communications solutions, announced that Interactive Brokers LLC, a global electronic brokerage firm, has signed a multi-year contract to continue with Mediant’s Broker Services and MIC technology platform.
17 November 2017
UK insurer Aviva has acquired a majority stake in a startup robo-adviser for an undisclosed sum.
05 October 2017
Nordic Capital Fund VIII “Nordic Capital” and MFEX management has signed an agreement to acquire the majority of the shares in MFEX, a leading European B2B open architecture fund distribution platform.
07 September 2017
Today, Assetz Capital, one of the UK’s largest Peer-to-Peer platforms, announced it has received full authorisation from the UK regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
05 September 2017
The trading volume in August in the Spanish Stock Market came in at €33.6 billion, up 9.5% from a year earlier. The trading volume for the first eight months of the year totalled €450.7 billion, down 4.2% from the same period in 2016.
01 September 2017
Acorns Australia, the micro-investing app, has reached a milestone of over a $100 million funds under management (FuM), highlighting the appetite among Australians for new ways to save and invest.
30 August 2017
Investment bank Goldman Sachs has expanded the use of algorithmic trading in its fixed income division in a move that will treble the number of bonds included in the programme to 7,000.
18 August 2017
Scalable Capital has announced the signing of a €30m funding round, led by BlackRock alongside existing investors HV Holtzbrinck Ventures and Tengelmann Ventures. This funding round is one of Europe’s largest for a digital investment manager to date, bringing Scalable Capital’s total funding to €41m.
20 June 2017
Mettrr Technologies has become the first company to provide financial returns for its crowd investors through a secondary share sale via a crowdfunding platform.
13 April 2017
Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) today provided an update of its progress across a range of far-reaching capital market reforms to enhance efficiency, corporate governance, and transparency.
Axioma, a leading provider of enterprise market risk and portfolio management solutions, today launched a new version of Axioma Portfolio Analytics ™ (“APA”) and Risk Model Machine™ (“RMM”), the first release of 2017.
12 April 2017
StashAway becomes first licensed robo-advisor in Singapore StashAway, a robo-advisor, has received in-principle approval for its Capital Market Services License for Retail Fund Management.
The US securities watchdog has issued a series of fines and penalties to individuals and entities for submitting hundreds of articles to financial websites which purported to be impartial endorsements of certain companies but which were secretly paid-for
11 April 2017
A London-based start-up claims it is the first shariah-compliant fintech to be given regulatory approval in the UK.
10 April 2017
Investors in the peer to peer (P2P) lending sector have seen their returns suffer due to a high rate of borrower defaults among start-ups, reports the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
20 February 2017
The State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest lending institution is to experiment with branchless banking after announcing plans to launch a digital-only bank later this year.
06 January 2017
Currency trading firm FxPro has abandoned plans for a London stock market flotation as a result of the UK regulator's plan to crackdown on the growing financial spread betting market, according to Sky News
04 January 2017
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