Beacon Announces New President
November 2, 20224 min
James Corrigan, former SimCorp and SunGard Systems Executive, joins as President of Beacon Platform.
Santa Cruz County Bank Announces New CFO, Cecilia Situ
November 2, 20226 min
Santa Cruz County Bank (OTCQX: SCZC) www.sccountybank.com with assets of $1.86 billion, today announced Cecilia Situ has joined the Bank as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Situ brings more than 20 years of well-rounded financial management experience, including financial accounting and SEC reporting, interest rate risk and investment portfolio management, business combination, financial planning, Sarbanes-Oxley internal control and procedures, and team development. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President and Treasurer at Bank of Marin, a publicly traded bank with $4.3 billion in...
Mercer Advisors Acquires Mark D. Cunningham
November 1, 20225 min
Mercer Global Advisors, Inc. (“Mercer Advisors”), a national Registered Investment Adviser (RIA), today announced the acquisition of Mark D. Cunningham, a sole proprietorship affiliated with Raymond James (hereinafter “Cunningham”). Cunningham, a respected wealth management firm located in Bellaire Texas, serves clients with assets under management (AUM) of approximately $360 million. Mark D. Cunningham, CFP®, CDFA®, founded Cunningham in 1997. His team has been helping clients achieve financial freedom through comprehensive wealth management and financial planning. Their approach to financial planning...
Thoma Bravo Completes Growth Investment in SMA Technologies
November 1, 20223 min
Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm, today announced the completion of its strategic growth investment in SMA Technologies (“SMA”), a leading provider of automation solutions for financial services. The investment will enable SMA to significantly expand its offering of automation solutions for its clients while accelerating growth geographically and into tangential industries over time. Founded in 1980 by automation experts at NASA, SMA Technologies is dedicated to simplifying IT complexity through its workload automation...
Lendary Capital launches Crypto Alternative Debt Fund
October 31, 20224 min
Lendary Asia Capital, the Hong Kong and Germany-based Investment Management Group continues to expand its alternative investment strategies with the launch of its Crypto Alternative Debt Fund. Built on the success of the Lendary.net automated margin lending platform, Lendary Asia Capital latest multi-strategy alternative credit fund is focusing on yield opportunities across the digital asset space without investing in any cryptocurrency, keeping the risk and volatility level as low as possible. The fund actively manages multiple credit strategies, including short-duration credit...
Broadridge Launches New End-to-End Solution for SFDR Reporting
October 31, 20224 min
Solution helps funds streamline ESG reporting and meet SFDR requirements
Hamilton Lane Partners with Figure
October 27, 20227 min
First time a private markets-focused 1940 Act Registered Investment Fund will have digitally-native share classes Partnership will provide access via the blockchain to Hamilton Lane’s Private Assets Fund (“PAF”) utilizing Figure Technologies’ Digital Fund Services (“DFS”) Hamilton Lane will leverage Provenance Blockchain for transfer agent services, fund subscription and investor liquidity for PAF *The Prospectus for the new share classes is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the...
FusionIQ Appoints John Kimbro as Chief Technology Officer
October 26, 20227 min
Digital Wealth Investing Platform Expands Leadership Team to Drive Continuous Innovation and Enhancements to Offerings for Financial Advisors and Their Clients Across Wealth Management Firms, Banks and Credit Unions
Cetera Makes Strategic Investment in CCR Wealth Management
October 26, 20227 min
In addition to its robust suite of succession, buyout, and practice-pairing options, Cetera is also investing in minority positions in unique, wealth management practices
Qontigo expands partnership with Goldman Sachs
October 21, 20225 min
Qontigo, a leading provider of innovative risk, analytics, and index solutions, today announced an expanded collaboration with Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS), a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm. Qontigo will now offer the Axioma Portfolio Optimizer™ and Axioma Equity Factor Risk Models through Goldman Sachs Financial Cloud for Data, a suite of modular data management and analytics solutions, as well as Goldman Sachs Marquee, the firm’s digital platform that delivers market-leading data,...