A greater level of desktop application interoperability between buy- and sell-side firms may be coming as BlackRock and Morgan Stanley embraced an open source standard overseen by the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), which held its annual Open Source in Finance Forum in New York City (OSFF NY) last week. The standard known as FDC3… Read More >>
Aladdin Links to LTX’s Liquidity Cloud & Other News
Aladdin & LTX Users Get Cross-Platform Access BlackRock’s Aladdin platform has a new channel to liquidity via its integration with the Liquidity Cloud offering from LTX, a subsidiary of Broadridge Financial Solutions, and the link helps common clients of LTX and Aladdin to access trading functions of both platforms, officials report. LTX is a… Read More >>
BlackRock Embraces ESG & Climate Change Reforms
Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock, is making the case to his shareholders and fellow corporate executives that major steps forward need to be taken to advance environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) goals in financial services and beyond, and, particularly, to combat the impacts of global warming. The… Read More >>
BlackRock’s Aladdin Moves to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud
Aladdin to Get Scalability, More Client Capabilities Microsoft will be hosting the infrastructure for the BlackRock’s Aladdin investment management and operations platform via the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, a move that the asset manager says will facilitate scalability for computing power and new client capabilities. BlackRock and Microsoft Corp. formed a hosting partnership for Aladdin,… Read More >>
BlackRock & BNY Mellon Streamline Access to Aladdin
The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY Mellon) and BlackRock’s solutions business group have launched a strategic alliance that offers the full suite of BlackRock’s Aladdin platform, tools and capabilities in one place in an effort to closely couple data and optimize operating models to bolster efficiency, officials say. The collaboration is intended to… Read More >>
