Latest Asset Management News: Finextra Research

Company update/markets

Tradu launches multi-asset trading platform in UK

Tradu is a new, sophisticated multi-asset trading platform for the active trader and investor offering thousands of tradable assets* across listed equities, commodities, cryptocurrencies, CFDs, forex, treasuries and indices.

22 November 2023

Company update/crypto

Coincover and Utila collaborate on crypto asset management

Coincover, the blockchain protection company, has joined forces with Utila, a cutting-edge enterprise-grade crypto operations platform.

22 November 2023

Company update/people

BlueFlame AI bolsters executive team

BlueFlame AI, the generative AI platform for alternative investment managers, today announced it appointed four industry veterans to bolster its business strategy and operations groups.

21 November 2023

News/wealth

Report predicts boom in Apac's wealthtech market

The wealthtech sector in Asia-Pacific could be worth more than $2trn by 2027 thanks to technological advancements, according to a report published by McKinsey.

20 November 2023

News/predictions

Survey reveals firms doubts over data quality

As many as three quarters of corporate, trust and fund services firms do not trust their own data, suggests recently published research.

30 October 2023

Company update/crypto

CoinShares establishes hedge fund division

CoinShares International Limited (“CoinShares'' or “the Company”) (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS; US OTCQX: CNSRF), the leading European alternative asset manager specialising in digital assets, today announced the launch of its hedge fund division, CoinShares Hedge Fund Solutions.

22 September 2023

Company update/regulation

Investment Metrics launches liability reporting

Investment Metrics, a Confluence company, the leading global provider of investment analytics, reporting, and data solutions, today announced the availability of liability reporting in its Portfolio Analytics and Reporting (PARis) solution.

22 September 2023

Company update/wealth

BlackRock joins Allfunds' Private Partners programme

Allfunds (AMS:ALLFG), the leading B2B Wealth Tech platform for the fund management industry, announces that global asset manager BlackRock, is joining the Allfunds Private Partners programme (APP).

19 September 2023

Company update/crypto

Nomura's digital asset arm launches Bitcoin Adoption Fund

Nomura's digital assets subsidiary, Laser Digital, today announces the launch of their Bitcoin Adoption Fund. The fund, which provides a seamless way for institutional investors to access the digital asset class, will be the first in a range of digital adoption investment solutions that Laser Digital Asset Management will bring to the market.

19 September 2023

Company update/wealth

Revo Digital welcomes venture capital finance

Revo Digital Family Office (“Revo”, the “firm”), Asia’s first digital family office and a member of Raffles Family Office, is pleased to announce that the firm has welcomed UOB Venture Management (“UOBVM”), Signum Capital (“Signum”), Gate.io Exchange and a Korean single family office as investors (the “investment”).

14 September 2023

News/wealth

MSCI expands Google partnership to explore AI services

Benchmark provider MSCI has extended its partnership with Google Cloud in order to accelerate its development of generative AI services for the investment industry.

30 August 2023

Company update/wealth

Charles River wins Thai pension fund mandate

Charles River® Development, a State Street company, announced that Thailand’s Government Pension Fund (GPF), one of Thailand’s largest pension funds with more than 1.2 million members, has selected the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS) to modernise their front office operations and manage their domestic and international equity, fixed income and multi-asset portfolios.

30 August 2023

News/crypto

Grayscale secures SEC legal win over bitcoin ETF

A US federal appeals court has sided with an asset manager in a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after the regulator denied an application to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an exchange-traded fund (ETF).

30 August 2023

Company update/wealth

Altum Group implements RiskScreen's KYC platform

Altum Group, a leading international provider of Fund, Corporate and Family Office Solutions, has successfully completed the implementation of RiskScreen's groundbreaking KYC platform.

21 August 2023

News/startups

Irish fintech funding slows down

Funding levels in Ireland's fintech sector have fallen again in the last 12 months due to economic and geopolitical challenges.

21 August 2023

Company update/wealth

HSBC launches ETF servicing platform

HSBC announced today the launch of ETF Platform Solutions – its new end-to-end platform for providing asset servicing solutions to ETF issuers globally.

17 August 2023

News/regulation

Consumer Duty: FCA finds fund manager value assessments need improvement

The FCA has conducted a review of fund managers’ value assessments and have found that while many firms have better practices in place, some still require improvement.

11 August 2023