Morgan Stanley

221 results about this entity

Period: 22 Sep 2004 - 17 Apr 2025

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Insurtech Cover Whale raise s$27.5m in debt and equity

Leading insurtech specializing in connected insurance for commercial auto, Cover Whale announces $27.5 million funding in debt and equity from investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital.

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Will Metro Bank be 2023’s next banking collapse?

Metro Bank has had a rough week. News that the UK challenger bank was planning to raise up to £600 million from investors, prompted financial watchdogs to summon the bank’s bosses for a sit-down.

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Morgan Stanley hit with £5.4 million fine after energy traders used WhatsApp

UK energy regulator Ofgem has fined Morgan Stanley £5.41 million over the use by traders of WhatsApp messages on private phones to discuss market transactions.

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FS giants team on open standards project for common cloud controls

The Fintech Open Source Foundation (Finos) is forming an open standard project to describe consistent controls for compliant public cloud deployments in the financial services sector.

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CMA charges five banks with bond price rigging

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally found that 5 major banks – Citi, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Morgan Stanley and Royal Bank of Canada – each unlawfully shared competitively sensitive information by participating in one or more series of one-to-one conversations in chatrooms.

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More Wall Street giants back Versana syndicated loan platform

Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, US Bank and Wells Fargo are the latest financial services players to back Versana, joining a $40 million capital raise for the syndicated loan platform.

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Morgan Stanley and Stripe tap into OpenAI's GPT-4

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is tapping OpenAI's GPT-4 to deliver content and insights into the hands of financial advisors. Payments giant Stripe is also integrating GPT-4 into its products and services.

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Morgan Stanley fines bankers over messaging breaches

Morgan Stanley has doled out million of dollars in fines to its own bankers for conducting business over WhatsApp, in breach of a regulatory crackdown on the use of the popular messaging app.

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Leading banks contribute to fintech onboarding with Enterprise Ready Questions

TechPassport has launched its Enterprise Ready Questions (ERQs) with contributions from fifteen tier 1 banks, including HSBC, Morgan Stanley, and Zopa Bank.

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Alibaba sells $126 million stake in Paytm

Chinese e-commerce giant, Alibaba Group, sold a 3.1% stake in the Indian digital payments firm, Paytm, via a block trade on Thursday.

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Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, among banks fined $1.1 billion by SEC

16 of Wall Street’s largest financial institutions been charged to pay a combined $1.1 billion to US regulators for not monitoring unauthorised employee messaging, announced the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday.

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Morgan Stanley hit with $35m penalty for device disposal failings

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) has been slapped with a $35 million penalty for failing to protect the personal identifying information (PII) of about 15 million customers.