BancTrust & Co. Investment Bank hires new Chief Strategy Officer
April 23, 20244 min
London-based Emerging Markets Investment Bank Continues Expansion with Key Global Hire
Asante Capital Group names Laura Leyland Partner
April 22, 20244 min
Asante Capital Group (“Asante”), a leading global private equity placement and advisory group, announced that Laura Leyland has been promoted to Partner. The firm’s fifth Partner, Laura joined Asante more than a decade ago and over this period has worked on numerous successful mid-market private equity fundraisings across growth, buyout, and real assets funds based in Europe, North America and some emerging markets. She has advised on capital raises for funds totaling approximately $23 billion,...
Miracle Mile Advisors hires new Chief Investment Officer
April 19, 20246 min
Miracle Mile Advisors (“Miracle Mile” or “the firm”) – a national, award-winning and independent registered investment advisor (RIA) offering highly customized, holistic wealth management services to high-net-worth clients across the nation – today announced it appointed Matt Dmytryszyn, CFA, as Chief Investment Officer. In this role, Dmytryszyn will lead the firm’s Investments Team, chair the investment committee and direct Miracle Mile’s research agenda. He will oversee portfolio management, trading and strategy implementation with the team, ensuring that the firm’s...
NICE Actimize wins 2024 FinTech Breakthrough for Best AML Solution
April 19, 20244 min
NICE Actimize’s AML solutions make use of best-in-class AI, data intelligence, graph analytics, anomaly detection, collective intelligence and a unified cloud platform
Public acquires Stocktwits’ TradeApp
April 18, 20244 min
Public, the investing platform where members can invest in stocks, options, bonds, crypto, and alternative assets, announces that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the TradeApp investment accounts from Stocktwits. Stocktwits will continue focusing on its community and real-time discussions around earnings and cryptocurrency offerings. Once the acquisition closes, tens of thousands of Stocktwits brokerage customers will migrate to the Public investing platform and join the larger Public community. “After launching bonds, a high-yield cash account,...
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Alternative Data Rise: FinTech Innovation with Sean Adler, GZI Finance
April 18, 20245 min
Alternative Data refers to non-traditional data sets that investors use to guide investment strategy, examples being credit card transactions, mobile device data, satellite imagery, social media sentiment, product reviews, weather data, web traffic, and app usage. The number of alternative-data providers is more than 20 times larger now than it was 30 years ago — with more than 400 currently active providers, compared to only 20 in 1990. A survey by the Alternative Investment Management Association...
UCapital Social Platform launches in US
April 17, 20245 min
Fueled by UCapital Fintech Group, the social platform provides financial professionals with a global ecosystem to redefine how business is conducted
Alexander Schmitz to Lead Bain & Company’s EMEA PE Practice
April 15, 20245 min
Bain & Company announced that Alexander Schmitz has been appointed to lead its Private Equity (PE) practice in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), succeeding Christophe De Vusser, the firm’s Worldwide Managing Partner Elect. A 21-year veteran of the firm based in Dusseldorf, Alexander is a senior member of the firm’s partner team in its global PE practice, with a deep track record of delivering successful client results across the full PE value chain. Most recently, he has served as head of Bain’s...
iCapital® & Bain Partner to Expand Wealth Managers’ Access
April 15, 20244 min
With growing advisor appetite for private credit investment opportunities, Bain Capital Credit partners with iCapital to create bespoke Bain Capital platform