BondWave, an affiliate of First Trust Portfolios and a leading financial technology firm focused on fixed income solutions, has launched Effi for RIAs. 

Tickeron, an artificial and human intelligence platform delivering trading insights and analysis, has released several new swing trading robots as part of its AI Robots feature. The technology uses artificial intelligence to simplify trading stocks, cryptocurrencies and Forex pairs.

SEI has announced enhancements to its Archway Platform to automate alternative investment data workflows involving a strategic partnership with Canoe Intelligence (Canoe), a financial technology company focused on data management for alternative investors and capital allocators. 

Wealth manager Brooks Macdonald has partnered with SS&C to enhance its intermediary-focused business in the UK and the Channel Islands. 

VEGA Investment Managers, the wealth management specialist of Natixis and Groupe BPCE, has adopted Bloomberg PORT Enterprise, Bloomberg’s advanced Portfolio and Risk Analytics solution, which delivers market-leading risk and attribution models, and detailed portfolio analytics. 

Behavioural finance experts Oxford Risk says many of the investment decisions retail investors make are for emotional comfort, and it estimates that on an average year this typically costs them 3 per cent in returns. However, given the increased level of market volatility during the pandemic, and that the level of emotional decisions made by investors in terms of managing their portfolios has increased dramatically, the cost of this will be more – in some cases it will be much higher.

iCapital Network, the global financial technology platform providing access to alternative investments, has announced a series of milestones in its expansion into the European and Asian markets. 

Refinitiv and Nomura Research Institute, (NRI), a provider of consulting services and system solutions, have launched the Refinitiv BETA and I-STAR/GX offering at Baird, an employee-owned, international wealth management, asset management, investment banking/capital markets, and private equity firm.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) company, has launched a new
platform, which utilises the latest in cloud technology to enable end-to-end Securities-Based Lending (SBL).

Refinitiv and Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a provider of consulting services and system solutions, have launched the Refinitiv BETA and I-STAR/GX offering at Baird, an employee-owned, international wealth management, asset management, investment banking/capital markets, and private equity firm.