Tagged: capital markets

May 4, 2023 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The transformation of the venture capital industry over the past year has been “stark,” according to a recent update shared by Carta. Carta writes in a blog post that the total venture capital “raised by startups plunged 80% from Q1 2022 to Q1 2023.” Venture… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Templum, Inc., a provider of Cloud-based capital market infrastructure for alternative assets and private securities, announced today its partnership with Sydecar, a “frictionless” deal execution platform that provides venture investors, syndicates, and funding platforms with the foundational services needed to execute deals. The explosion of… Read More

April 15, 2023 @ 3:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ION Markets, a global provider of trading platforms, analytics, and risk management solutions for capital markets, announces the connection of its LatentZero order management system (OMS) to Trumid, a financial technology company and fixed income electronic trading platform. The link adds connectivity to ION Markets’… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Fox-Geen. Chief Financial Officer at Fintech firm Circle and Kash Razzaghi, the firm’s Chief Business Officer, have noted that digital currencies and the blockchains on which they travel can offer considerable utility “as a new, unified infrastructure for payments, commerce and capital markets built… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 1:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capitolis, the technology company reimagining capital markets, announced a significant innovation to its automated novation service in foreign exchange (FX): it can now novate agency trades while maintaining anonymity. This reportedly “unlocks more of the FX options market for novations by including agency flow and… Read More

March 21, 2023 @ 11:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Netcapital Inc. (Nasdaq: NCPL, NCPLW), a digital private capital markets ecosystem, recently  announced financial results for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2023 ended January 31, 2023. Martin Kay, CEO of Netcapital Inc., said: “Over the past nine months, Netcapital has… Read More

March 12, 2023 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capitolis, the technology company reimagining financial markets, announced that its subsidiary, Capitolis Global Broker Dealer LLC, has applied “to become a broker-dealer.” This is the next step in Capitolis’ journey “to provide innovative solutions to the market in order to keep the capital markets both… Read More

February 20, 2023 @ 9:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Transaction Network Services (TNS) announced the launch of its standardized Dedicated Server offering, which is “the first phase in the deployment of its new Cloud platform for financial markets.” This product is designed specifically “for high-performance trading and utilizes TNS’ bare metal servers, as well… Read More

February 13, 2023 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax, the first FCA-regulated digital securities exchange broker and custodian, announced a partnership with ScribeStar, the digital capital markets documentation and compliance platform, in order “to create a fully digital issuance and admissions experience for companies accessing the Archax markets.” Archax’s institutional-grade, regulated exchange and… Read More

January 29, 2023 @ 8:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PrimaryBid and Winterflood announced a collaboration to further advance UK retail investor participation in equity and debt capital markets, including IPOs and follow-on fundraises. Together the firms will “offer API integration to any stockbroker or wealth manager wishing to distribute primary market deals to retail… Read More

January 29, 2023 @ 2:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capitolis, the technology company reimagining capital markets, completed its nineteenth Standardized Approach for Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) optimization in January, “with this latest run incorporating a record number of entities, driving a record reduction of over $290 billion in effective notional.” This marks another momentous… Read More

January 10, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas announces a strategic investment in AccessFintech, which claims to be a leading fintech company “evolving the capital markets’ operating model through data and workflow collaboration.” The investment is being “made by BNP Paribas’s Securities Services unit, the bank’s post-trade arm.” It will “enable… Read More

December 19, 2022 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Talos, the premier provider of institutional digital asset trading technology, released survey findings from Coalition Greenwich revealing that US Financial Advisors (FAs) are fielding significantly “increased demand from investors for digital assets despite the current crypto winter.” Conducted in partnership with Talos, the survey reported… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 2:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Valour Inc., a technology company and the first and only publicly traded company that bridges the gap between traditional capital markets, Web3 and decentralized finance, announced a partnership with Autostock, a Swedish trading platform “to launch an automated trading strategy designed to capture weekly effects… Read More

November 27, 2022 @ 9:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Both deal activity and deal value on the Carta platform have “declined in every quarter of 2022, falling back to pre-pandemic levels.” That’s a sharp reversal from last year, “when startup investment was propelled to new heights.” This year, deal volume in Q3 “was down… Read More

November 17, 2022 @ 11:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trading Technologies International, Inc., a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, and KRM22 plc (AIM: KRM), the technology and software investment company that focuses on risk management for capital markets, announced that it is “making the KRM22 Risk Manager available… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 1:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sterling Trading Tech (STT), a provider of order management systems, risk and margin tools and trading platforms to the capital markets worldwide, today announced it has signed with Avenue Securities, a U.S. digital brokerage serving retail investors in Brazil, “to provide its suite of technology… Read More

October 14, 2022 @ 7:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) announced that TradeNeXus, a GlobalLink digital platform for foreign exchange transactions and an integral part of State Street’s Digital Division, has partnered with Capitolis, the technology company “reimagining” capital markets, “to launch an automated post-trade solution to optimize portfolios.” This… Read More

October 11, 2022 @ 11:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clearstream has reached the next level of digitization of financial markets by “creating the digital instrument on D7, Deutsche Börse’s digital post-trade platform.” European issuers can now “leverage the new infrastructure to issue digital securities.” The first automated issuances were “performed by LBBW and Vontobel,… Read More

September 23, 2022 @ 5:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AccessFintech, the Fintech company evolving the capital markets operating model through data and workflow collaboration, announced the completion of its $60 million Series C funding round, led by WestCap. As the lead investor, WestCap claims that it “brings deep experience building and scaling transformational software… Read More