Saxo Bank moves into online bond trading
Saxo Bank, the online trading and investment specialist, announces today that it is transforming fixed income trading. Read more: www.finextra.com
PortfolioQuest scoops up pre-seed for financial training tool
Financial training tool PortfolioQuest has raised $750,000 in a pre-seed round of funding. The funding for the San Francisco and Singapore-based startup was led by Nels Friets and Venkatesh Sethuraman. Read more: www.fintechroundup.com
Fluent rebrands as Hijro for blockchain asset marketplace
FinTech company Fluent, the financial operating network for global trade, rebrands as Hijro and announces the Hijro Trade Asset Marketplace. Read more: www.businesswire.com
UBS Head of Trading quits to start FinTech firm
UBS Group head of electronic trading in China, who helped make the Swiss banks equity algorithmic trading strategy among the most popular in China, has left the company. Read more: www.bloomberg.com
Funderbeam grabs €2m for startup stock exchange
Blockchain-based trading and investment platform Funderbeam has picked up €2m from Japanese investor and incubator Mistletoe. Read more: www.fintechroundup.com
Funderbeam pockets $2.6m for blockchain stock exchange
Funderbeam has raised $2.6m in a new round of ventures funding from Draper Associates, Thomson Reuters and IQ Capital. Read more: www.fintechroundup.com
Bank-backed Visible Alpha unveils investment research platform
Visible Alpha has announced the commercial availability of its new investment research platform with content contributed by more than twenty research firms. Read more: www.finextra.com