Tagged: bloomberg

February 24, 2023 @ 11:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Last December the SEC issued four major equity market proposals which radically alters the status quo for the first time in nearly two decades. Regulation National Market Structure (NMS) has governed the US equities markets since 2005. It created a fragmented but fully electronic market,… Read More

September 29, 2022 @ 9:53 am By JD Alois  |  

7IM has selected Bloomberg AIM, an order management system, to boost the firm’s goal of an efficient target operating model to support assets under management (AUM) growth, according to the company. 71M is a young investment management platform that works with professional wealth managers, planners,… Read More

October 28, 2021 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bloomberg reveals that Mackenzie Investments, a Canadian asset management company, has adopted PORT Enterprise, which is Bloomberg’s portfolio analytics and risk management solution, in order to support its (exchange-traded-fund) ETF business. Mackenzie also uses Bloomberg AIM, an order management solution, in order to support its… Read More

November 4, 2020 @ 3:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

BBVA announced on Wednesday it has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Bloomberg to developed a new cloud-based technology for the equity markets area of its Corporate and Investment Banking unit. BBVA reported that it has created BBVA C-fit, which is a platform built… Read More

May 30, 2020 @ 1:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares, a crypto asset management company that provides financial products and services for professional investors, has launched the CoinShares Gold and Crypto assets Index (CGCI). The CGCI is reportedly the first EU Benchmark Regulations (EU BMR) compliant index for the digital asset sector that combines… Read More

January 21, 2020 @ 10:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

LendingClub (NYSE: LC) announced on Tuesday it is one of 325 companies across 50 industries included in the 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI). According to LendingClub, the GEI expanded in 2020 to represent 42 countries and regions, including companies headquartered in the Czech Republic, New… Read More

January 16, 2019 @ 10:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC), announced on Wednesday it is one of 230 companies selected for the 2019 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI), which distinguishes companies committed to transparency in gender reporting and advancing women’s equality. According to LendingClub, the index doubled in size from 2018 and includes firms from 10… Read More

May 10, 2018 @ 11:53 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Last December Bloomberg added Cryptocurrencies to its globally ubiquitous Terminals. Now, Bloomberg and Galaxy Digital Capital Management LP, a digital asset management firm founded by Michael Novogratz, have launched the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index (BGCI). The index is designed to track the performance of the… Read More

January 15, 2018 @ 12:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Luxembourg Finance Minister, Pierre Gramegna, was interviewed by Bloomberg while attending an event in Hong Kong. While the hed indicated the discussion was about Brexit, the more interesting discussion was about Fintech opportunities and cryptocurrencies. Gramegna was queried about possible new regulations on the… Read More

December 17, 2017 @ 4:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Bloomberg Terminal is the mainstay of any serious financial service firm. Populated on trading desks around the world, “the Bloomberg”, launched in 1981 long before computers were commonplace. The Terminal is now on over 325,000 work stations globally. And it is not just about… Read More

November 1, 2017 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

  Orchard Platform, a Fintech company that provides online lending data and insights, has formed a partnership with Bloomberg to make its content available to terminal subscribers. This is an important strategic shift for Orchard as it vastly scales its content and services to a… Read More

June 16, 2017 @ 10:27 am By JD Alois  |  

A report from Bloomberg this week takes certain online lending platforms to task regarding the fact that some online lenders are not verifying income status.  The report also says that even if there are errors in loan applications the loan may still be approved. More… Read More

November 4, 2016 @ 9:30 am By Jessica Pham  |  

The Government of Singapore is inviting startups, tech companies, investors, and banks to its inaugural Singapore FinTech Festival between November 14-18. Events will include a Hackcelerator Demo Day, the FinTech Awards, and a speakers expo. Finalists competing in the FinTech Awards had been busy implementing… Read More

August 24, 2016 @ 9:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Peter Renton, founder of LendIt and online lending industry advocate, has take to the pages of Lend Academy to defend Lending Club (NYSE:LC) following a critical article by BloombergBusinessweek. The Bloomberg article, co-authored by Max Chafkin and Noah Buhayar, hammered Lending Club by questioning the… Read More

February 29, 2016 @ 7:57 am By JD Alois  |  

loanDepot has announced a new partnership with Orchard Platform – the company that is at the nexus of online lending and institutional participation. loanDepot will now be integrating its performance data into the Orchard U.S. Consumer Marketplace Lending Index and Market Data products. loanDepot states believes… Read More

January 26, 2016 @ 8:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Crowdcube announced it was named of UK’s most innovative businesses by Bloomberg in its inaugural Business Innovators List. The equity crowdfunding platform declared in its blog: “Bloomberg unveiled its inaugural Bloomberg Business Innovators list, naming Crowdcube as one of the breakthrough businesses disrupting the… Read More

January 6, 2016 @ 12:28 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Japan’s banks are beginning to say konnichiwa with more enthusiasm to Fintech: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., a major Japanese bank, has created a unit to research and develop new financial technologies, according to sources cited in a recent Bloomberg story. A spokesman for Mitsubishi UFJ in Tokyo, Taiki… Read More

December 17, 2015 @ 2:24 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. linked with fintech platform Finatext Ltd to boost investment trust sales by providing information through a smartphone application, reported  Bloomberg, the first time Mitsubishi partnered with fintech startup on a new service. The Fundect app, which was developed by  as part of a competition run by… Read More

November 18, 2015 @ 1:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Orchard Platform has inked an agreement to partner with Bloomberg Professional service to provide the Orchard US Consumer Marketplace Lending Index. Orchard is a unique platform.  It is the digital pipeline for institutional funds flowing into marketplace lending loans.  This exchange of investors and borrowers… Read More

September 4, 2015 @ 10:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

More than 130K students have turned to GoFundMe, seeking crowdfunding to help pay their tuition costs,  CNBC reports in the short video embedded below.  More than $20M dollars has been raised this year. With the average cost of tuition and fees for private institutions exceeding $31K,… Read More