Blackrock

People moves round-up: Amundi, Appital, BlackRock, Broadridge, Houlihan, HSBC, ISDA, J.P. Morgan, MarketAxess, NeoXam, Pirum, Portfolio BI,QuantHouse, South Street, StoneX, Wematch

Interview: FINOS’ Columbro on what the buy-side is doing in open source

People moves round-up: BCI, BlackRock, BNY Mellon, DTCC, D-Wave, ECB, Goldman Sachs, IIAC, LSF, NeoXam, Northern Trust, Portfolio BI, Raymond James, RBC, SIX, South Street Securities, Tifin, Virginia Retirement System

BlackRock launches tokenized fund that invests in repo on Ethereum

BlackRock joins FINOS with eye on FDC3 open source for Aladdin

People moves round-up: BBH, BlackRock, CFTC, CSRC, ICMA, MUFG, Northern Trust, NY Fed

DLT in Securities Finance: building out defined use cases

People moves: Ares, BlackRock, CFTC, Eurex, Goldman Sachs, GSR, Hazeltree, J.P. Morgan, State Street

People moves round-up: AnalytixInsight, BIS, BlackRock, HSBC, STAC, VERMEG

BlackRock to acquire GIP for $12.5bn in cash/equity deal

SEC approves spot bitcoin ETF funds after much drama

Tradeweb and BlackRock advance all-to-all liquidity network

BlackRock researchers on reducing LLM hallucinations in extracting financial information

BlackRock and Barclays settle collateral on J.P. Morgan’s Onyx platform

US treasury/repo clearing mandate makes derivatives markets wary on basis trade impact

Broadridge integrates LTX with BlackRock’s Aladdin for corporate bond liquidity

CoinDesk: Circle moves $8.7bn to repo amid US default jitters

BPI warns on Circle’s BlackRock fund getting access to overnight repo facility

Tradeweb to integrate credit trading and data into BlackRock’s Aladdin

Getting ready for Rates & Repo on November 2-3, 2022

Finadium NYC technology event in September: can crypto revenues justify securities industry investments?

BlackRock, Fidelity join $400mn funding round for stablecoin issuer Circle

Bloomberg Tech: Musk, Thiel, Andreessen and the “Current Thing”

NY Fed conference: buy-side wary of treasury market shocks, looks ahead to clearing reforms

Raft of climate finance investment and standards announced at COP26

SFM Interview on repo data and infrastructure: drop the batch, add the CCP and DLT

BlackRock integrates Axoni’s CDM-based software into Aladdin

BlackRock adding Baringa’s climate risk tech to Aladdin

Microservices fintech 10x Future raises $187mn led by BlackRock and CPP Investments

BlackRock’s Aladdin and Cassini partner for pre- and post-trade margin and collateral analytics

BlackRock integrating FlexTrade into Aladdin to simplify multi-asset

BlackRock to launch Aladdin in cloud with fintech partner Snowflake

Reuters: BlackRock funds to invest in bitcoin futures

BlackRock takes minority stake in Clarity AI to boost ESG on Aladdin

BlackRock adds climate risk data to Aladdin, expands ESG data with vendor partners

AI startup Saphyre gets deal with JPM Securities Services and BlackRock for custody account openings

Doors open for international access to China’s huge securities finance markets

Citi and BlackRock integrate tech platforms for outsourced middle office services

The competition is on for asset manager desktop tech with robust custody integration

BNPP combines its middle office, fund admin, custody with BlackRock’s Aladdin for mutual clients

BlackRock and Microsoft partner for Aladdin in the cloud, sustainability tech

Reuters: Fed hires BlackRock to help execute mortgage-backed securities purchases

BlackRock publishes policies on proxy voting for securities lending and sustainability

FT: BlackRock’s Aladdin under scrutiny for crowding risk as assets pass $20tr

Evidence on whether passive funds are disrupting the price discovery mechanism

BlackRock’s Thiel warns investors on cybersecurity, US-China tech war

MAS’ Menon details use cases of advanced tech and ASEAN network developments

Fintech weekly deals and partnerships round-up

BNY Mellon and BlackRock partner to deliver data and technology on the Aladdin platform

Fintech weekly deals and partnerships roundup