Symphony, a UK-based fintech, has acquired Amenity Analytics, a natural language processing data analytics solution providing actionable insights to portfolio managers, research professionals, analysts and other financial markets participants. This acquisition will enhance Symphony’s markets strategy with highly relevant data and business insights use cases, including ESG capabilities.
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Altum supports HackCapital
Altum Group, a C.I.-based provider of fund, corporate, and family office solutions, has assisted HackCapital with the launch of its securitisation platform in Luxembourg. HackCapital is building an impact-investment marketplace that provides access to venture capital and accelerates investment into food, climate and health solutions globally.
Sionic hires Sascha Calisan
Sionic, a UK-based consultancy, has appointed Sascha Calisan as a director in its asset management practice, where she will lead the firm’s distribution services capability. Calisan was previously head of fund distribution support at Northern Trust.
SGSS supports EIB DLT bond issue
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has launched Project Venus, its second euro-denominated digitally native bond issue and the first using private blockchain technology. The EUR100m two-year bond was issued, recorded and settled using private blockchain-based technology, and represents the inaugural issuance on Goldman Sachs’ tokenisation platform – GS DAP. Banque de France and the Banque…
Mal Cullen to become CIBC Mellon CEO
Mal Cullen has been appointed as CEO of CIBC Mellon. He will remain a member of the board of directors of CIBC Mellon Trust Company. Cullen will be returning to Canada to assume his new role. He replaces Steven Wolff, who will retire from CIBC Mellon effective December 30, 2022, after six years of leadership.…
Broadridge & SLIB extend voting service
Broadridge, the U.S.-based fintech, and SLIB, a software editor for electronic voting and securities services based in France, have gone live with their joint end-to-end global voting solution. The deal builds on the cross-border proxy voting service for France-based investors that hold international shares, launched by Broadridge and SLIB in 2021.
CACEIS partners with Sismo
CACEIS, the European asset servicing group, and Sismo, a French fintech, have formed a partnership to offer a new solution for portfolio analysis and optimisation, as well as investment strategy development. The Sismo web platform is available through the CACEIS Connect Store. Sismo’s solution offers data visualisation and an advanced comparative analysis tool.
Kneip and Next Gate form alliance
Kneip, a provider of fund-level data management and regulatory reporting, and Next Gate Tech, a fintech specialising in portfolio-level data management and analytics, have formed a commercial partnership to bring together both companies’ expertise in fund data management. Both businesses are based in Luxembourg. Earlier this year Kneip was acquired by Deutsche Börse.
Jupiter expands SS&C mandate
Jupiter Asset Management, the UK-based investment management group with GBP47bn (USD57bn) AuM, has extended its transfer agency contract with SS&C. SS&C provides TA services to Jupiter’s unit trusts and has now taken on Jupiter’s OEIC fund range, acquired in 2020 as part of its Merian Global Investors acquisition. The value of funds administered by SS&C…
Generali RE deploys Fenergo
Generali Real Estate, the real estate asset manager that is part of the Italy-based Generali Group, has selected Fenergo, the provider of KYC and CLM solutions for financial institutions, for its SaaS-based CLM solution to address new EU regulations and enhance client onboarding experiences. Generali Real Estate, which has c. EUR38bn (USD40bn) AuM, will deploy…