Tagged: state street

April 26, 2021 @ 9:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

   Securrency, a global financial services technology infrastructure and products company, announced on Monday it raised $30 million through its Series B investment round, which saw participation from WisdomTree Investments, Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners Limited (ADCP), State Street, and U.S. Bank. The investment round comes… Read More

September 10, 2020 @ 9:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Capitolis, a U.S.-based SaaS platform that drives financial resource optimization for capital markets, announced on Thursday it secured a strategic investment from Citi, J.P. Morgan and State Street. Founded in 2017, Capitolis claims its network software enables financial institutions to optimize their balance sheets, which… Read More

July 19, 2020 @ 7:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

SPACs or special acquisition companies have emerged as a hot sector of finance. Recently, Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square announced a $4 billion initial public offering for a SPAC making it the largest ever for a blank check company. The SPAC is anticipated to have a… Read More

March 5, 2020 @ 6:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jay Biancamano, the managing director and digital currency lead at giant custodian bank State Street, has argued that crypto assets will assist the private capital market in becoming the global standard for trading within the next 10 years. During a recent episode of The Block’s… Read More

December 17, 2019 @ 3:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

State Street, a Boston-based asset-management firm “responsible for more than 10 percent of the world’s assets,” announced on Tuesday it has teamed up with cryptocurrency platform Gemini to launch a new digital asset pilot, which notably builds on ongoing research and development in the digital… Read More

December 5, 2019 @ 4:19 pm By Cali Haan  |  

State Street, a Boston-based asset-management firm “responsible for more than 10 percent of the world’s assets” has reportedly abandoned an internal project that aimed to put the company’s investment book front end, accounting middleware and back end custody records onto a blockchain-like self-settling layer. 100 blockchain… Read More

September 26, 2018 @ 10:04 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Representatives from Wall Street and prominent US crypto investment/services firms are convening in Washington this week to attend a legislative roundtable hosted by Republican Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio, CNBC reports. Attendees at the roundtable, titled “Legislating Certainty for Cryptocurrencies,” are reportedly hoping to influence… Read More

October 5, 2017 @ 10:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based fintech firm Finastra announced on Thursday it has teamed up with R3 and seven banks to create an online marketplace to drive transparency and efficiency in the syndicated loan market. Finastra reported that R3’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) based platform, Fusion LenderComm exposes real-time credit agreement, accrual… Read More