Year: 2024

FINBOURNE Technology, a fintech specialising in data management for the investment sector, has completed a secondary funding round. This follows a Series B funding round of GBP55m (USD72m) in June 2024 and brings the total to over GBP100m (USD131m). It allows for six investors to follow-on from their original investment and four additional investors to…

SimCorp, the fintech owned by Deutsche Börse Group, has signed a deal with the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) to implement SimCorp One, its end-to-end investment platform that supports the entire investment lifecycle for public and private markets. TRS is the seventh largest pension plan in the U.S., with USD202bn AuM.

BT, the Australian wealth management business owned by Westpac, has appointed SS&C for unit registry services. SS&C’s managed fund administration team will provide unit registry services to 88 BT-managed funds, including investor servicing and unit registry websites for digital account access and transactions. BT previously managed unit registry and investor servicing for these funds in-house.

BNY has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Archer Holdco, LLC a provider of managed account solutions to the asset and wealth management industry. Archer provides asset and wealth managers with middle- and back-office solutions to address the managed account needs of institutional, private wealth and retail investors.

AssetMark Financial Holdings, Inc., a wealth management technology platform for financial advisors, has completed its acquisition by GTCR, a private equity firm. The acquisition is valued at approximately USD2.7bn, The closing of the acquisition concludes its partnership with Huatai Securities. Concurrent with the closing, AssetMark announced the appointment of Lou Maiuri as chairman and group…

Next Gate Tech, the Luxembourg-based fintech, has appointed Séverine Raymond-Soulier as chief revenue officer. Based in London, she will lead client-facing operations encompassing business development, deployment and customer experience. Her previous roles include head of EMEA and U.S sales at Symphony and head of investing & advisory EMEA at Thomson Reuters.

CAIS, the U.S.-based provider of an alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, has appointed Kan Kotecha as chief technology officer. He will lead a team of engineers across the entire CAIS platform with a focus on defining and building a unified operating system that will provide scale and simplification to the entire alternative investment…

Challenger Limited, the publicly listed Australian investment management firm, has appointed State Street to provide custody and, through State Street Alpha, back-, middle- and front office investment administration services, for a suite of listed and unlisted investment vehicles with AUD127bn (USD85bn) AuM. Challenger will be one of the largest investment managers in the region to…