North American banks consider technology to be the biggest trend impacting their industry – and are focusing their investment strategy accordingly, finds an Economist Impact study, commissioned by Temenos, which surveyed bank executives in North America.
• Octopus Apollo VCT has announced an offer for up to £50 million (£35 million + £15 million overallotment).• The VCT has total net assets of £386 million and a portfolio of around 45 companies.• Apollo invests in small and medium sized B2B software businesses. These aren't traditional start-ups, with investees usually posting revenues of £2 million to £8 million a year.• Over the five years to September 2023, the VCT has delivered a NAV total return of 50.6%• The VCT targets a dividend of 5% of NAV
IOSCO, the global standard setter for securities market regulators, has today published its Final Report with Policy Recommendations for Crypto and Digital Asset (CDA) Markets.
Bloomberg today announced that Triodos Investment Management, a prominent impact asset manager based in the Netherlands, with €5.7 billion AUM, has chosen Bloomberg's AIM and PORT Enterprise solutions to support front-office workflow for its investment funds and discretionary clients business.
KX, the global leader in vector-native, real-time and high-volume time series data analytics, and ExeQution Analytics, the specialist trading analytics company, have joined forces to develop an advanced trading analytics framework built on the kdb+ time series database.
Rho Labs, a builder of Rho Protocol, an on-chain, non-custodial interest rate futures and swaps market, today announces a successful raise of $2.2M in a pre-seed round, led by Speedinvest.