Tagged: data

November 13, 2022 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hilary Wiek, CFA, CAIA Lead Analyst, Fund Strategies & Sustainable Investing at Pitchbook, notes that through the first quarter of 2022, one-year private fund performance was still “at historically high levels, as more muted performance in Q1 2022 was still overcome by three quarters of… Read More

November 10, 2022 @ 4:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Society Pass Incorporated (SoPa) (Nasdaq: SOPA), Southeast Asia’s data-driven fintech and e-commerce ecosystem, announced the establishment of a strategic cryptocurrency payment partnership with Canada-based CoinSmart Financial Inc, a Toronto-headquartered crypto asset trading platform. Under this paradigm-shifting collaboration, SmartPay by CoinSmart “provides transaction settlement services in… Read More

November 8, 2022 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TMX Group Limited (TSX:X) announced that it has agreed to acquire Boston-based Wall Street Horizon, Inc. (WSH), a provider of global market-moving action and global corporate event data. Jay Rajarathinam, Chief Operating Officer, TMX Group, said: “TMX Group is committed to serving the evolving needs… Read More

November 8, 2022 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldr, the “zero trust” architecture for the world’s collaboration and communications platforms, is announcing that it has “raised a total of $11 million in Seed funding.” The investment round was “led by Molten Ventures, with continued support from IQ Capital and Playfair Capital.” It also… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Money.net, a provider of leading data and analytics platforms, has selected Barchart, a global market data and technology leader, in order “to power their retail and professional products with streaming and historical market data.” Vincent Sangiovanni, CEO of Money.net, said: “Barchart and Money.net have had… Read More

November 2, 2022 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bluefin, the integrated payments firm focused on PCI-validated encryption and tokenization technologies that protect payments and sensitive data, announced the acquisition of TECS Payment Systems, a global provider of omnichannel payment solutions to acquirers, payment service providers and POS system providers. Consumer demand for omnichannel… Read More

October 30, 2022 @ 2:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aunalytics, a data management and analytics company delivering managed IT and data platform services for mid-sized and enterprise businesses, “highlighted top security priorities to follow when reinforcing defensive security strategies against malicious cyber threats.” The guidance is “provided as Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a… Read More

October 25, 2022 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Moneyhub, an Open Finance, Open Data, and payments platform, announced that it has secured “an initial £35m in funding from high profile backers Legal & General and Lloyds Banking Group, with an additional £5m debt facility provided by Shawbrook. Legal & General’s investment is partially… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 3:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CEPRES — which claims to be the leader in private market investment technology and data —  announced the launch of CEPRES Predictive Intelligence, which is described as “an enhanced, future-oriented portfolio management suite based on CEPRES’s proven and backtested forecasting technology.” CEPRES Predictive Intelligence enables… Read More

October 21, 2022 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Plaid has launched a new data privacy product – Permissions Manager – which enables their financial services partners “to help put consumers in control of their own data from initial account connections to ongoing connection management.” Plaid’s consumer research has shown that today people “generally… Read More

October 14, 2022 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Data solutions provider, Sagacity Solutions Ltd., recently announced its acquisition of data marketing and insight agency, REaD Group Ltd. The acquisition will give clients “a one-stop-shop for clean, accurate and compliant data with … comprehensive insights.” Sagacity will “provide an intelligently informed customer lifecycle proposition… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 9:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Resistant AI, the AI and machine learning financial crime prevention specialists, and ComplyAdvantage, which claims to be one of the financial industry’s leading sources of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology, announced “the general availability of their solution for fighting financial crime across… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aleph.im, the Web3 cloud platform for computing services, file storage and indexing solutions, announced the launch of their open source and “decentralized” indexing solution for the Solana ecosystem, in order “to accelerate the development of decentralized applications through accessible data queries and integrations.” As the… Read More

September 29, 2022 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nova Credit, which claims to be one of the world’s leading consumer-permissioned credit bureaus, announced that it has partnered with HSBC (NYSE: HSBC) in order “to provide the bank with global access to its cross-border credit data product, Credit Passport, creating more opportunities for credit… Read More

September 29, 2022 @ 9:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Eventus, a global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, announced that SpiderRock Technology Services, a “high-performance” algorithmic execution and risk management technology provider to institutional trading clients, as well as agency broker-dealer and market data provider, has “deployed the Validus… Read More

September 28, 2022 @ 7:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LevelField Financial, which claims to be the premier U.S. financial services firm, uniting digital assets and traditional banking services in one “trusted” platform, announced the selection of Cryptoquote, a provider of highly available data, analytics, and research tools, “to deliver LevelField customers industry-leading, real-time digital… Read More

September 28, 2022 @ 2:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital arm and accelerator of Binance, led a $8.5 million seed funding round for Bitquery as part of its ongoing drive “to support innovative blockchain data solution providers.” The investment round was “co-led by dao5, with Susquehanna, DHVC, INCE Capital, and… Read More

September 25, 2022 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amid the funding winter, 128 Indian startups have managed to “raise $995.1 million in August 2022, which is a 9.7% growth compared to the previous month,” reveals GlobalData, a data and analytics company. Aurojyoti Bose, Lead Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Although the total VC funding… Read More

September 24, 2022 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trade Ledger, the data-driven lending technology provider, has partnered with Thought Machine, the cloud-native banking technology company and developer of core banking engine Vault Core, “to provide a fully integrated technology stack for commercial lenders and banks.” API-driven data exchange between the two companies will… 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