2020 is off to a fast start when it comes to fintech financings and M&A deals as the past week...
It was only a month ago that we covered Yieldstreet’s partnership with Citi, allowing YieldStreet investors to have access to...
Asset management divisions within big banks have always been a solid revenue source but recently they have taken on greater...
BlackRock founded AI Labs last year to begin researching artificial intelligence for potential product offerings; the team is now comprised...
BlackRock is leading a $50mn investment round into microinvesting app Acorns to help build out their investment options; BlackRock joins...
It was a month ago that YieldStreet shared that they had partnered with Citi to offer their investors access to...
I discuss Citi's roboadvisor launch and why it took the firm 12 years to get to the party. We break down the difference between financial services ingredients and the organizations that combine those ingredients to manufacture and distribute financial products. We also look at how that consumer prerogative is defining the asset management industry, and the consolidation towards monolithic passive indexing providers. Last, we talk about how people prefer mass produced Twinkies to expensive artisanal desserts. Yummy!
UK based payments fintech TransferWise has upped their valuation to $3.5bn with a secondary funding raise of $292mn; the round...
A new survey by BlackRock of more than 200 institutional investors shows that only a quarter say technology is as important...
BlackRock, the world’s largest investment group, is setting up an AI research lab; the move is part of a wider industry trend by asset managers to use AI and machine learning for investments; the lab is meant to help their current teams and clients better understand how best to utilize the new technologies; “Big data offers a world of possibilities for generating alpha [market beating returns] but traditional techniques are not good enough to analyse the huge volumes of information involved,” said David Wright, head of product strategy in Europe for BlackRock’s scientific active equity division, to the FT. Source.