Lending Loop

Investment Management, Wealth Management

IntraFi and Broadridge | December 08, 2022

Amid an increased demand for wealth lending generally and securities-based lending (SBL) specifically, global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) announced a partnership today with IntraFi to offer a streamlined securities-based lending service for banks, brokerage firms, and wealth management firms. Through this partnership, IntraFi will offer Broadridge's lending technology — already used today by some of the largest banks in the world &mdas...

Financial Management, Fintech

BlackRock and iShares | August 19, 2022

BlackRock has expanded its Megatrends platform with the launch of the BlackRock Future Financial and Technology ETF. The Fund is actively managed by BlackRock’s Fundamental Equity (FE) franchise and seeks to maximize total return by investing in companies delivering innovative and emerging technologies that are driving disruption within the financial services industry. “In the United States alone, the use of fintech increased by 30% during the pandemic1, ...

Wall Street | April 09, 2020

A New York investment firm pitched wealthy investors in recent days on a way to make returns of 22% to 175% using U.S. government programs designed to help Americans keep their jobs and boost the coronavirus-stricken economy, according to a marketing document seen by Reuters. Following questions posed by Reuters, Arcadia Investment Partners LLC, which has about $1 billion under management, said it had put its plans on hold. The idea was in “formative stages” and the firm was not &ldq...

Core Banking

M&T Bank | January 15, 2022

M&T Bank today announced it is expanding the services it provides to communities with high concentrations of ethnic and racial diversity by designating an additional 100 bank branches as multicultural centers. Located in cities across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, the centers will offer banking and other financial services in customers' preferred languages and employ bankers from the community who understand the cultural nuances of the individuals and neighborhoods they serve. <...