04/13/2016
What a Tech Startup's Pivots Say About Bitcoin's Future
The upshot: Providing bitcoin wallets — which let people buy things with an app using bitcoin — is a tough road for multiple reasons.
FinTech
04/13/2016
Janney Montgomery Scott Selects SEI to Provide Open-Architecture Turnkey Solutions
SEI is a leading global provider of institutional and private client wealth management solutions, which help professional wealth managers, institutions, and private investors create and manage wealth.
04/13/2016
AssetMark Poised for the Future with New Ownership Structure
AssetMark, Inc., a leading provider of innovative platform, investment and consulting solutions serving financial advisors, announced today that Huatai Securities has agreed to purchase the Company from private equity firms Aquiline Capital Partners and G
04/13/2016
SEI Selected by Centerbridge Partners to Provide Investment Operations Solutions
SEI drew on its global operating platform to provide Centerbridge with a solution tailored to its fund administration, fund accounting, middle-office and investor servicing requirements for both its private equity and credit businesses.
04/11/2016
Biometrics and banking, access control and fingerprint technology trending this week
Morpho is presenting biometric payment technology that combines security and facility for consumers as part of a Visa Europe exhibition in Paris, France this month.
04/08/2016
BNP Paribas embraces Silicon Valley through Plug and Play partnership
Plug and Play is currently running its third fintech accelerator programme, providing support to 23 startups bidding to change the financial services landscape.
04/08/2016
Voice-activated Banking Comes to Your Amazon Device
Capital One's technology is a "skill" for Amazon's voice-operated Alexa service.
04/07/2016
Bank of the West and BNP Paribas Join Strategic Partnership with Silicon Valley-Based Plug and Play, World's Largest Global Technology Accelerator
Entering a Strategic Agreement with Plug and Play's Financial Technology Innovation Platform Further Aligns Bank of the West and BNP Paribas with Forward-Thinking Technology Firms
04/07/2016
From Wall Street Banking, a New Wave of Fintech Investors
The three top technologies were cloud, mobile and analytics, the report said.
04/05/2016
Microsoft solidifies its blockchain-as-a-service work with new banking partnership
Microsoft is making its Azure blockchain-as-a-service offering the backbone of a new partnership with the R3 banking consortium.
04/05/2016
Welcome to the 'Havoc' Phase of Fintech Disruption
In recent years, investors have poured money into startups, giving 152 of them vaunted "unicorn" valuations of more than $1 billion — and more than a dozen of them are in the fintech space. But now,
04/01/2016
U.S. Federal Trade Commission Grants Antitrust Clearance for Transaction involving SS&C Technologies and Chairman and CEO William Stone
Mr. Stone was holding approximately 2.7 million non-voting shares and, under applicable law, he could not convert these shares into voting securities or acquire additional SS&C voting shares without the Hart-Scott-Rodino clearance.
04/01/2016
Janus Capital Group, Inc., today announced the promotion of Enrique Chang to President, Head of Investments.
“The decision to promote Enrique to President, Head of Investments, is reflective of his increased responsibility in now overseeing the majority of our Janus investment teams, as well as his significant contributions to the firm over the past two a
03/31/2016
Marketing in the Online Wealth Management Industry
Some key players in this space are Nutmeg, Wealthfront, Betterment, Vaamo and Moneyfarm.
03/30/2016
Blackrock testing Symphony’s new financial messaging app
Symphony is a rival to existing messenger systems run by Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters
03/29/2016
Dell sells IT services unit to Japan’s NTT Data for $3 billion
The move will allow Dell to trim some of the $43 billion in debt it is taking on to fund its pending acquisition of EMC Corp, a deal worth close to $60 billion
03/28/2016
Aviva CIO on Insurer's Digital Transformation
That's no small feat given Aviva's history stretches back to late 17th-century Britain, but Shivanandan is pulling out all the stops, including adopting Agile
03/28/2016
Regions Bank Addresses Evolving Client Needs With Adoption of SEI Wealth Platform
The Platform is an integrated solution that supports all stages of client relationship management including front-, middle- and back-office processing services. It is designed to allow wealth management firms to focus on clients' goals and strategic
03/22/2016
Black Diamond Named Best Client Communications Solution at the 2016 Family Wealth Report Awards
The awards were designed to recognize companies, teams, and individuals, deemed by the panel of judges, to have 'demonstrated innovation and excellence during 2016.'
03/22/2016
Banks Are Using Biometrics to Detect Scammers
But the biometric sensors installed at the bank branch detected patterns that pointed to telltale signs of stress, tipping off the bank to the ruse.