J.P. Morgan’s securities services business is building a link to SimCorp Dimension. SimCorp is a provider of technology solutions and services for the asset management sector. Available to mutual clients, the front-to-middle office and custody integration has gone live at one asset owner in APAC.
Category: FinTech
Insight sells Fenergo to Astorg and Bridgepoint
Insight Partners, the owner of Fenergo, the Ireland-based provider of KYC and client lifecycle management software solutions for financial institutions, has reached an agreement to sell the business to Astorg and Bridgepoint. Terms have not been disclosed.
Cowen invests in PolySign to develop digital assets custody
Cowen Digital Asset Investment Company LLC, a division of U.S.-based investment bank Cowen Inc., and PolySign, Inc. have formed a strategic partnership, to enable Cowen’s institutional clients to secure, access and leverage cryptocurrencies and digital assets in their portfolios. In support of the partnership, Cowen has made a USD25m investment in PolySign, leading the USD53m…
Standard wins NY state charter to offer digital assets custody
Standard Custody & Trust Company, LLC, a U.S.-based custody and settlement platform for digital assets, has received charter status to operate under New York state banking law as a regulated qualified custodian. The charter permits Standard Custody to offer custodial and escrow services for digital assets. One of Standard’s board members is Tim Keaney, formerly…
Investics to offer S-Ray ESG datasets
Investics Data Services, the Boston-based investment data & analytics firm founded by Bill Pryor, has reached an agreement with Arabesque S-Ray to provide a suite of Arabesque S-Ray ESG data through the Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE) and Investics DARTS data marketplace. Clients can subscribe to one or more of the various Investics DARTS Arabesque S-Ray…
Galaxy Digital to acquire BitGo
Galaxy Digital, a U.S.-based financial services provider in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors, has agreed to acquire BitGo, an independent digital assets infrastructure provider. BitGo was the first independent regulated custodian in the U.S., purpose-built for digital assets. It has >USD40bn AuC, serving over 150 exchanges and over 400 institutional clients.
Northern Trust completes acquisition of Parilux
Northern Trust has completed its acquisition of Parilux Investment Technology, LLC, following its initial investment in the firm in 2018. Northern Trust’s Front Office Solutions business integrates Parilux’s software with a proprietary cloud-based web and mobile interface.
J.P. Morgan to deliver U.S. securitised products data to Confluence’s Delta platform
Confluence, a technology solutions provider to the worldwide money management industry, and J.P. Morgan have launched a further development in their partnership to deliver a multi-asset portfolio analytics solution. At the start of Q3 2021, Delta, Confluence’s risk and performance solution, will have expanded coverage powered by J.P. Morgan’s proprietary analytics to include U.S. securitised…
Northern Trust launches Omnium Event Manager
Northern Trust has launched Omnium Event Manager, a web-based workflow tool designed to provide asset managers and asset owners with a consolidated view of corporate action and dividend events affecting fund portfolios, enabling them to coordinate with brokers and custodians to respond effectively to the voluntary events. The Event Manager platform leverages global Omnium services…
Banque de France completes digital currency test
In partnership with the European Investment Bank and Société Générale – FORGE, Banque de France has completed an experiment on the use of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for settling digital bonds issued by the EIB through blockchain. The experiment consisted of the subscription to EIB-issued digital bonds by investors, for a total amount…