Tagged: wealth management

July 24, 2022 @ 11:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ATRAM Trust Corporation, which claims to be the largest independent asset and wealth manager in the Philippines, recently announced that it has “signed a strategic partnership with additiv, a global Wealthtech platform provider.” The partnership will “enable ATRAM to modernize and digitize their wealth management… Read More

July 20, 2022 @ 12:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lumio, which is focused on building a “hyper-personalized” finance app for people to grow their money on autopilot, has secured 155% (£311,594) of its £200,000 target via Crowdcube from 457 investors (at the time of writing) with 7 days left in the sale. Lumio reports… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong-based digital bank WeLab recently revealed that it has introduced its virtual wealth advisory service, GoWealth Digital Wealth Advisory. Clients may kick start their personalized investment plans from as low as HKD 100. In April 2022, WeLab had been granted Type 1 (dealing in… Read More

June 26, 2022 @ 8:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iCapital, the global fintech platform driving access and efficiency in alternative investing for the asset and wealth management industries, announced that Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has made a strategic investment in the company, “deepening a partnership that began in 2018.” iCapital will use the… Read More

June 23, 2022 @ 8:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iCapital, the Fintech platform driving access and efficiency in alternative investing for the asset and wealth management sectors, and SIMON Markets, the Fintech company offering a digital platform designed to help financial advisors understand and manage structured investments, annuities, and other risk-managed products, have announced… Read More

June 6, 2022 @ 7:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pursuing its “innovative” path in the UAE asset management sector, FinaMaze recently announced a partnership with investment research firm, Ned Davis Research (NDR). This partnership, the “first of its kind” in the GCC region, will see NDR providing research and high-level intelligence to the ADGM-regulated… Read More

May 31, 2022 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CaixaBank has established OpenWealth, which is a new, “independent” and global advisory service for the bank’s UHNW clients. As a subsidiary fully-owned by the CaixaBank Group, Open Wealth will “provide this service to customers with assets amounting to over €50 million.” OpenWealth will “provide a… Read More

May 29, 2022 @ 2:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strabo, which aims to offer wealth analytics “at your fingertips,” has acquired 110% (£193,573) of its £175,003 target (at the time of writing) from 163 investors through its crowdfunding campaign via Seedrs (with 17 days left in the campaign). Located in London, Strabo operates in… Read More

May 24, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wells Fargo Wealth & Investment Management (WIM) recently announced the relaunch of Intuitive Investor, its digitally automated investing platform. Investors can now “access the robo-advisory platform with only a minimum $500 investment.” Michelle Moore, head of Digital for Consumer and WIM at Wells Fargo, said:… Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 4:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the Cloud banking platform, recently announced that Mirabaud, the Swiss private bank, has selected Temenos “to move from a traditional on-premise system to a digital end-to-end wealth management platform on Temenos Banking Cloud.” With the generational transfer of wealth, new regulations and… Read More

May 17, 2022 @ 3:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

inbestMe, a “smart” digital investment platform, “simple to use” and customized to deliver “better returns with lower costs,” has acquired 140% (€2,113,386) of its €1,500,000 target via Crowdcube from 171 investors (at the time of writing). After launching in Spain back in 2017, inbestMe claims… Read More

May 10, 2022 @ 11:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HCL Technologies UK Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of HCL Technologies, an international tech firm, has entered an agreement for the acquisition of Confinale AG, a Switzerland-headquartered virtual banking and wealth management consulting specialist and Avaloq Premium Implementation Partner. Via this key acquisition, HCL will… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 10:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WeLab Bank, the virtual bank dedicated to “curating intelligent banking experience,” has reportedly become the “first” digital bank in Hong Kong licensed “to offer digital wealth advisory services.” Having obtained the Type 1 (Dealing in securities) and Type 4 (Advising on securities) licenses from the… Read More

April 18, 2022 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Technology is too often a “blindfold” when it should be a “microscope,” Oxford Risk has warned. Wealth managers or advisers risk failing investors on suitability “by not using technology appropriately to measure ESG preferences and being caught up in the ‘green rush’,” according to behavioral… Read More

April 12, 2022 @ 6:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Southeast Asia’s digital wealth management platform StashAway recently revealed that John Tsang Chun-wah, Hong Kong’s former Financial Secretary, has officially joined StashAway’s advisory committee. Tsang was reportedly the longest-serving Financial Secretary as he had occupied the position from 2007 until 2017. As mentioned in the… Read More

April 8, 2022 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealth managers may now introduce more of their end-investors to the world of private investments via a newly-launched institutional service on digital securities exchange ADDX. Corporate treasuries and family offices may also “take part in the space via a corporate service to diversify their portfolios… Read More

March 28, 2022 @ 12:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

RBC Wealth Management-U.S. has a network of over 2,100 financial advisors in 180+ offices “managing $542 billion in client assets.” Their vision is “to provide best-in-class technology experiences for financial advisors through integration with Addepar’s platform.” Addepar provides RBC Wealth Management advisors “with robust data… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 2:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., an investment bank, wealth manager, and a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings (NYSE: OPY) – has announced the launch of the Investor Gateway, an interconnected and “intuitive” wealth management tech platform. As mentioned in the update, Oppenheimer completed the buildout of the… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 1:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Refinitiv, an LSEG Business, recently revealed that it entered a strategic agreement with Vestorly, an AI-powered content curation, and marketing platform, in order to offer wealth management companies and advisors with personalized content and marketing tools “designed to foster a more-impactful digital customer engagement experience.”… Read More

March 7, 2022 @ 8:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Addepar, a software and data platform “purpose-built” for investments, recently revealed that Eric Daniels has joined the firm as Chief Financial Officer. Daniels reportedly brings over 20 years of financial and operations executive leadership experience to Addepar, “with a focus on SaaS and data information… Read More