Latest Morgan Stanley News: Finextra Research

Morgan Stanley joins global carbon accounting coalition

Morgan Stanley has become the first top tier US bank to commit to measuring greenhouse gas emissions fueled by its loans and investment products.

22 July 2020

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Oz Challenger 86 400 embarks on Series B raise

A year after bagging its license, Australian challenger bank 86 400 is already working with existing investor Morgan Stanley to plot another funding round.

10 July 2020

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Big banks invest in Capital Markets Gateway

A host of Wall Street heavyweights, including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, have joined a $25 million funding round for Capital Markets Gateway (CMG), a fintech startup that facilitates equity capital market transactions.

25 June 2020

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Morgan Stanley to buy E*Trade for $13bn

Morgan Stanley has agreed a deal to buy online discount brokerage E*Trade Financial in an all-stock deal worth around $13 billion.

20 February 2020

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Morgan Stanley vets launch cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform

A group of former Morgan Stanley executives is building a cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform.

06 December 2019

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Top US banks unite for 'Fintech Focus' coding bootcamp

Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo are to turn their New York offices into coding bootcamps for under-represented college students in a new initiative intended to increase the representation of women and people of colour in software engineering within the financial services industry.

17 July 2019

/startups

Morgan Stanley picks startups for Multicultural Innovation Lab

Morgan Stanley has picked 10 technology startups to take part in its accelerator programme for firms who have multicultural or women leaders.

02 May 2019

/cloud

Morgan Stanley agrees to pay $900m for employee stock plan manager

Morgan Stanley has struck a $900 million cash deal to buy Solium Capital, a Canadian provider of cloud-enabled share plan administration services.

11 February 2019

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Wall Street firms plan to take on Nyse and Nasdaq with new exchange

Morgan Stanley, E*Trade and Fidelity Investments are among a group of Wall Street firms backing a new equities exchange hoping to take on Nyse, Nasdaq and Cboe Global Markets.

08 January 2019

/retail

Open Banking is in the customer’s hands in the age of data breaches

Following news of the Marriott data breach, panelists at Fintech Connect 2018 believe that while concern about the security of data retention still exists, open APIs have resulted in a paradigm shift around how data is controlled.

05 December 2018