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News/Portfolio management
BNP Paribas Securities Services has taken a stake in AssetMetrix, and will use its suite of data analytics to provide private capital clients with more in-depth information on their non-listed investments.
19 November 2019
A business owned by Alan Howard, the billionaire founder of hedge fund Brevan Howard, is reportedly planning to launch a new $1bn venture focused on cryptocurrency hedge funds.
30 August 2019
News/startups
Australian investment technology platform Jacobi is targeting the UK after securing $11 million in funding from a group of Silicon Valley VCs.
09 July 2019
News/wholesale
German exchange operator Deutsche Börse is buying Axioma for $850 million and combining the analytics specialist with its index businesses in a new company.
09 April 2019
The trade body for the UK's fund management industry, the Investment Association (IA), has extended its fintech accelerator initiative with the launch of a second cohort.
09 January 2019
US bank JP Morgan has hired a former Google executive as its new head of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
29 August 2018
Having backed away from a rumoured bid to buy Fidessa, SS&C has turned its attentions to Eze Software, offering private equity owner TPG Capital $1.45 billion in cash for the investment management software house.
31 July 2018
Credit Suisse has joined a funding round for Assetmax, a Swiss startup that provides asset managers with an end-to-end software platform.
20 July 2018
The prospect of applying blockchain technology to the proxy voting process has become more likely after Broadridge, one of the biggest providers of investor-related services, was awarded a patent for this very purpose.
11 May 2018
Deutsche Bank's research unit has unveiled an interactive web tool that uses big data in an effort to quantify the importance of intangibles, such as environmental and social issues, on stock prices.
27 April 2018
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
Less than half of global asset managers and asset owners think that they are adapting technology quickly enough to support their business growth needs, according to a survey from State Street.
27 June 2017
Japan's Nomura Asset Management (NAM) has tapped artificial intelligence (AI) to quantitatively assess text from news websites and blogs, using the results to help portfolio managers make investment decisions.
26 June 2017
A consortium of Chinese state-owned companies and private enterprises has created a $1.44 billion investment fund dedicated to fintech mergers and acquisitions.
03 January 2017
Venture capitalists have invested more than $200m in UK tech startups in the month following the controversial Brexit vote, allaying fears that London's growing tech sector would be one of the first casualties of the withdrawal from the European Union.
25 July 2016
The president of one of the world's largest hedge funds has told an audience of fund managers that he looks forward to the day when they will all be replaced by computers.
09 June 2016
Retail investors may soon be able to buy and sell shares via Facebook's messenger platform after UK fund supermarket AJ Bell announced plans to launch a new trading service in the next three months.
08 June 2016
Spanish exchange operator Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) has paid partner Deutsche Bourse EUR8.2 million in cash to take full ownership of financial information outfit Infobolsa.
25 February 2016
Halifax is to dispatch up to 2000 staff to UK libraries to run IT taster sessions for the estimated six million adults in the country who have never used the internet to get online.
20 January 2016
BNY Mellon and its fund manager clients are scrambling to assess the damage caused after a third party system run by SunGard and used by the bank to value assets worth billions of dollars broke down.
27 August 2015
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