After the excitement of working on Wall Street begins to fade and financial services professionals’ current role grows stale, many set their sights on new opportunities in sunnier climes with lower taxes and a more affordable cost of living, and traders are no exception. Instead of taking an Uber or riding the subway to work, […]

  Fintech firms will continue to target the bond market as trading becomes more electronic and regulations change how firms approach data and reporting according to consultancy Aite Group. Shawn Samuel, chief technology officer at LiquidityBook, told Markets Media that MiFID II has made operating in all markets more complex. “We want to go deeper in […]

As far as achievable deadlines go the MiFID II January 3 compliance date had always looked ambitious. In December, with just weeks to go, many buyside and sellside firms were yet to get systems, processes and policies in place. While the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) gave no indication of regulatory forbearance, the watchdog’s director of […]

One of the world’s largest trading banks has led a significant funding round for Visible Alpha, netting the research platform provider $38 million in fresh capital as it plans to expand its international presence. Along with Goldman Sachs, Santander, Macquarie Group, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Royal Bank of Canada, Wells Fargo, Citi, Jefferies […]

Goldman Sachs has led a $38m funding round into investment research technology firm Visible Alpha. To read the full article, click here.  

Visible Alpha, a US technology firm backed by some of the world’s largest banks, has secured $38m in a funding round led by Goldman Sachs as it looks to expand on the back of new European trading rules. The fintech firm is one of a number that has sprung up to help institutions with research valuation and […]

Goldman Sachs has led a $38 million investment round by large banks in Visible Alpha, a young New York-based company that helps investment managers better value the equity research services they receive from brokers. Wells Fargo, Banco Santander, Exane BNP Paribas, Macquarie Group and Royal Bank of Canada participated in the strategic investment round, the company […]

MiFID II has arrived. And now banks are asking themselves how they can make their research stand out.To help answer that question, a group of big banks led by Goldman Sachs has poured $38 million into Visible Alpha, a financial technology startup, in a fundraising round announced Thursday. The company seeks to provide research units with technology […]

Goldman Sachs has led a $38m investment round for a research platform already backed by a club of big banks, highlighting how sweeping regulatory changes are forcing investment banks to find a new business model for the analysis they produce. The investment research industry has been buffeted by changes in recent years, but the introduction […]

Credit portfolio managers believe rates and defaults will increase during 2018 with the realization that global central banks’ quantitative easing will end at some point, according to the fourth-quarter survey from the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers, IACPM. The Credit Default Outlook index globally for the next 12 months is -30.3, up slightly from […]