Fidelity Investments - News, Articles & Research

Company announcement/markets

Capital markets fintech 73 Strings scoops $10 million in Series A funding

73 Strings, the pioneering provider of valuation and portfolio monitoring solutions for the private capital industry, has completed its Series A funding round.

18 July 2023

Company announcement/crypto

TP Icap runs first live trade through Fusion Diggital Assets

GMEX Technologies (“GMEX”), a subsidiary of GMEX Group, a leader in digital business and technology solutions for capital markets players, exchanges and post-trade market infrastructure, today announced that TP ICAP, the world’s largest interdealer broker, has gone live with its Fusion Digital Assets wholesale cryptoasset exchange, powered by GMEX trading and post trade technology.

24 May 2023

News/wholesale

Fidelity buys fintech Shoobx

Fidelity Investments has acquired Shoobx, a provider of automated equity management operations and financing software for private companies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

12 January 2023

News/markets

Fidelity brings gamified education to the metaverse

Fidelity Investments has entered the metaverse, launching a gamified financial education experience in Decentraland.

27 April 2022

Company announcement/markets

Capdesk and Fidelity enable transition of share plans from private to public markets in Europe

Capdesk, a leading equity management platform, today announced an alliance with Fidelity1, one of the world’s foremost investment management services.

17 March 2022

News/crypto

Crypto giants form travel rule compliance platform

Some of the biggest players in crypto - including BlockFi, Coinbase and Robinhood - have joined forces to develop technology that helps them meet a rule designed to counter money laundering.

18 February 2022

News/startups

Fidelity and Visa back emerging markets lender Jumo

Jumo, a South African and London-based fintech startup that helps the underbanked get access to financial services such as loans and savings products, has raised $120 million with backing from Fidelity and Visa.

08 November 2021

News/people

Top 25 financial services employers for women: Who is on Forbes’ 2021 list?

Forbes has just released its annual ranking of America’s ‘Best Employers for Women’.

20 August 2021

News/cloud

Fidelity taps Finbourne to drive data strategy

Fidelity International has picked technology from Finbourne to drive its data strategy in a deal that also sees the asset manager make a strategic investment in the London-based startup.

21 July 2021

News/crypto

TP Icap to launch wholesale trading platform for cryptoassets

TP Icap is seeking UK regulatory approval for a new institutional-grade spot trading platform for cryptoassets, including bitcoin and ethereum.

29 June 2021

News/crypto

Fidelity, Square and Coinbase form crypto lobbying group

Coinbase, Fidelity Investments and Square have formed a new lobbying group to help shape the future of crypto regulation.

07 April 2021

Company announcement/retail

Fidelity's eMoney Advisor joins Akoya data access network as first aggregator

eMoney Advisor (eMoney), a leading provider of technology solutions and services that help people talk about money, today shared updates on its API strategy and continued work to transition from credential-based data aggregation – or “screen scraping” – to application programming interface (API)-based data aggregation.

24 March 2021

News/retail

Fidelity in talks to take £100 million stake in Starling

US investment group Fidelity is in advance negotiations to lead a £200 million fundriaising round in UK challenger bank Starling, according to Sky News.

29 January 2021

Company announcement/wealth

Fidelity's eMoney Advisor rolls out first mobile app

eMoney Advisor (eMoney), a leading provider of technology solutions and services that help people talk about money, today announced the launch and general availability of Incentive, a client-led financial planning and wellness application.

15 January 2021

News/startups

LSE, ABN Amro and Fidelity join $50m round in PrimaryBid

PrimaryBid, the British fintech platform that connects retail investors with public companies raising capital, has closed a $50m Series B investment round.

26 October 2020

Company announcement/wealth

Wealthtech Pascal Financial integrates with Fidelity Clearing Canada

Pascal Financial, an emerging wealthtech company, has announced their AI-powered platform now offers integration with Fidelity Clearing Canada (FCC).

03 June 2020

News

US bank coalition takes ownership of data sharing firm Akoya

Fidelity Investments is to spin off its API-based data sharing startup Akoya as an independent entity that will be jointly owned by Fidelity, The Clearing House Payments Co. and eleven of its member banks.

20 February 2020

News

Fidelity to launch digital assets business in Europe

Fidelity is to offer European institutional investors access to its platform for securing, trading and supporting digital assets, such as bitcoin.

17 December 2019

News

New York state grants Fidelity digital asset charter

Plans by Fidelity Investments to launch a digital assets business have been given a boost New York's Department of Financial Services, which has grenlighted the firm's move into the state's rapidly growing virtual currency marketplace

20 November 2019

News

Mega M&As fuel record growth in fintech deals

A flurry of large M&A deals and the popularity of contactless payments have helped to create a record volume of fintech deals, according to a recent report, but also raised fears that the market may be overcrowded and reaching peak status.

06 June 2019