Security Finance

Investment Management

DriveWealth, Plaid | March 31, 2021

DriveWealth, a global brokerage infrastructure platform, announced a new collaboration with Plaid, a financial data network, to provide users of both platforms with convenient online investment account support. Customers of both companies can use Plaid to authenticate their end users' bank accounts and receive tokens that provide swift, safe bank funding source authentication through the DriveWealth API. This improves the Automated Clearing House's performance rate, increa...

Goldman | February 28, 2020

Goldman Sachs expects the coronavirus to drive the Federal Reserve to cut U.S. interest rates by 75 basis points by June it said on Friday, implying as many as three cuts starting at its next meeting in March. Traders are pricing in a 72% chance of a quarter-point rate cut at the Fed’s March meeting, according to CME Group’s FedWatch. The central bank’s next policy-setting meeting is March 17-18. It then has one April 28-29 followed by another June 9-10. “Although moderat...

Blockchain

REPAY | January 04, 2022

Repay Holdings Corporation recently purchased Payix for up to $115 million. The acquisition was finalized over cash on hand. Repay also announced a $60 million increase in revolver capacity,with the goal of increasing its existing Revolving Credit Facility from $125 million to $185 million. Repay offers cohesive payment processing solutions to verticals, which possess precise transaction processing requirements. Its technological platform functions to reduce the complexity of elec...

Financial Management

SparkCognition, AIM2 | February 24, 2021

SparkCognition announced that it agreed to acquire AIM2 from hedge fund management company Brevan Howard and global investment bank Nomura. Being the world's leading industrial artificial intelligence (AI) company, SparkCognition aims to expand further into financial services and with more capabilities in the future. SparkCognition has also executed contracts with both Brevan Howard and Nomura. They will allow SparkCognition to expand its AI capabilities and meet the needs of ...