Galaxy Digital Holdings, the financial services and investment management provider in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors, has completed its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of GK8, an institutional digital asset custody platform, for approximately USD44m.
Category: FinTech
SIX to provide data to FundGuard
SIX has agreed a deal with FundGuard, the SaaS investment accounting platform provider, to deliver global pricing, market and reference data to asset managers, asset owners, and asset servicers. The deal integrates SIX’s end-of-day market prices, core security master data and corporate actions notifications, offering access to clients using FundGuard’s IBOR, ABOR and NAV contingency…
U.S. Bancorp invests in Ownera
U.S. Bancorp has joined Ownera’s Series A investment round. Ownera is a fintech working on an interoperability network for tokenized assets. Ownera aims to digitise private markets, allowing banks, asset managers and exchanges to route assets more efficiently. Other participants in the funding round include J.P. Morgan. In 2021 U.S. Bank invested in Lumint and…
Broadridge hires from BNY Mellon
Broadridge Financial Solutions has appointed Wout Kalis as head of Asia Pacific for Broadridge Asset Management Solutions. Kalis will be responsible for advancing Broadridge’s strategic asset management priorities in Asia, driving revenue growth and product expansion. He will oversee day-to-day operations and provide senior asset management leadership in the region. Most recently, he was regional…
Apex launches ESG DaaS platform
Apex has launched an ESG data as a service platform for the private markets. Apex has been collecting, verifying and examining private market ESG data from more than 400 GPs, and 1,500 portfolio companies in more than 45 countries since 2019, compiling a proprietary and verified ESG database for benchmarking performance. The database will include…
DZ Bank selects Metaco
Metaco, the Switzerland-based digital assets platform provider, has signed a deal with DZ BANK AG, the central institution of the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken cooperative financial network, one of the largest banking groups in Germany. DZ BANK has AuC of EUR297bn (USD315bn). Metaco’s custody and orchestration platform, Harmonize, was selected by DZ BANK after an extensive proof-of-concept…
LemonEdge appoints CTO
LemonEdge, the UK-based platform provider for private markets fund and portfolio accounting, has promoted Angus Armstrong to chief technology officer. He was previously development director.
Euronext bids for Allfunds
Euronext has submitted a preliminary offer to buy Allfunds, the fund distribution platform, for EUR5.5bn (USD5.8bn). BNP Paribas, which struck a wide-ranging distribution deal with Allfunds in 2020, holds a significant stake in the business.
Citi hires head of SS technology
Ken Sansom has joined Citi as the head of securities services technology. He joins from Amazon Web Services. His hiring is the latest in a string of senior management acquisitions by Citi’s securities services business. These include Mary Gaspar-Hillenbrand, global head of digital first transformation; Joe Bonanno, global head of data, digital, and innovation; and…
Northern Trust to integrate with SimCorp
Northern Trust has agreed with SimCorp, a provider of SaaS investment management solutions, to enable integration for data exchange for mutual clients using the SimCorp Dimension platform. The two companies will automate custody data file exchange for Northern Trust clients via two different methods: direct integration of files which can be delivered to SimCorp, as…