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University of Miami Herbert Business School and 2U, Inc. Launch FinTech Boot Camp
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DBS Vickers Powers Ahead With Digitalisation Plans as Asia’s Leading Trading House

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DBS Vickers (DBSV), the brokerage arm of DBS Bank, continues to advance its ambition to become Asia’s leading digital trading house for funds, equities and structured notes with plans to double regional trading volume across its retail and institutional segments by 2025. Read More: GlobalFintechSeries Interview with Anand Kumar Bajaj,......
24 Exchange Expands its Board of Directors and Creates New Advisory Board
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24 Exchange Tops $100 Million Average Daily Volume in FX NDFs

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24 Exchange, a multi-asset class, 24-hour trading platform, has reached an average daily volume of $100 Million in FX NDFs and become a must-access venue for the asset class. In addition, J.P. Morgan began actively trading FX NDFs on the 24 Exchange platform on Day 1 of operation in December of 2019 and remains one of the most active dealers on the platform. Read......
Warba Bank & Eurisko Mobility Power through the COVID-19 Lockdown to Continue the Bank's Digital Transformation
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GrayQuest Raises $1.2 million in Pre-Series A funding Led by Foundation Holdings

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 GrayQuest, an education-focused fintech company, has raised $1.2 million in Pre-Series A funding led by Foundation Holdings, a strategic global investment firm to increase access to affordable education in India. GrayQuest enables parents to pay their annual education fees in up to 12 monthly instalments – without incurring any extra cost......
Coupa Acquires Treasury Management Leader BELLIN Group
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Clermont Partners Expands Senior Leadership with the Addition of Jim Koppa as Director of Research

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Clermont Partners, one of the nation’s largest women-owned financial communications firms, announced today it has expanded its senior management team with the addition of Jim Koppa as Director of Research. For more than 15 years, Mr. Koppa has utilized his deep knowledge of the investment community, leveraging advanced data analytics......
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Prudential Financial to sell Prudential of Taiwan to Taishin Financial

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Prudential Financial, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Taishin Financial Holding Co., Ltd., a leading Taiwan-based financial institution, to sell Prudential Life Insurance Company of Taiwan Inc. Read More: Habito, UK’s Digital Mortgage Broker, Secures £5.5m in Series A funding Under the terms of the agreement,......
BTIG Strengthens Fixed Income Credit Unit with Seth Bernstein and John Toland
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BTIG Investment Banking Adds Industry Veteran Kimberly Boulmetis as a Managing Director to Its Specialty Finance Unit

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BTIG announced today that Kimberly Boulmetis has joined the firm’s Specialty Finance Investment Banking unit as a Managing Director. Ms. Boulmetis will be based in the firm’s New York office, and will report to Dan Blood, Managing Director and Head of Specialty Finance, at BTIG. Read More: Four Benefits of Buy Now Pay Later for Ecommerce......
BondEvalue and Northern Trust Collaborate to Complete World’s First Blockchain-based Bond Trade
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BondEvalue and Northern Trust Collaborate to Complete World’s First Blockchain-based Bond Trade

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Northern Trust and BondEvalue  announced the completion of the first trade of a fractionalized blockchain-based bond. Read More: Four Benefits of Buy Now Pay Later for Ecommerce Retailers “This milestone represents a significant step towards making institutional grade bonds more widely accessible to certain investors. Our platform is greatly assisted......
Barclays Launches Systematic Study of ESG-Focussed US Equity Funds
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Barclays Launches Systematic Study of ESG-Focussed US Equity Funds

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ESG-focussed mutual funds are attracting large inflows, but fundamental challenges remain in defining what constitutes an ESG-labelled equity fund. In a systematic study of US equity funds, Barclays Quantitative Portfolio Strategy (“QPS”) team finds that ESG-labelled funds do not necessarily provide more ESG exposure than conventional funds. Read More: Curb Debuts......
Despite Pandemic, Businesses Feel Ready to Face Challenges to Drive Growth, Lean on Modifications to Operations to Get There
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JMP Group Announces Changes in Sales and Trading Leadership

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JMP Group LLC, an investment banking and alternative asset management firm, today announced changes in the management of the institutional brokerage division at JMP Securities. James O’Day has been named head of institutional sales, and Charles Sweeney, JMP Securities’ director of sales and trading, has been appointed to JMP Group’s operating......
MPOWER Financing Adds Jatin Rajput, Global Financial Services Executive and Fintech Investor, to Its Board
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Standard Chartered Partners with Truera to Tackle Unjust Bias in AI Assisted Decision Making

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Standard Chartered has partnered with Truera, a US based startup, to use their model intelligence platform to improve model quality and increase trust by analyzing models and helping to identify and eliminate unjust biases in the decision-making process. The Bank is an active proponent of the use of artificial intelligence and data......
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