Fidelity Investments

86 results about this entity

Period: 12 Oct 2004 - 18 Jul 2023

Capital One acquires user experience consultancy Adaptive Path

Capital One has acquired San Francisco design outfit Adaptive Path, in a move that demonstrates the growing importance of user experience design thinking in financial products.

Fintech startups invited to play in data sandbox

Fidelity Investments, Thomson Reuters and Amazon are backing a fintech startup programme in Boston that will provide early stage firms with free and discounted access to financial data sets to test-drive their applications.

Fidelity unveils Pebble smartwatch app

US financial services giant Fidelity Investments has developed a Pebble smartwatch app which lets wearers check market information with a flick of the wrist.

Kensho raises $10m to build a Siri-like assistant for capital markets trading

US start-up Kensho has raised $10 million in seed funding to build an "intelligent market research assistant" that will answer complex financial questions asked in natural language.

Fidelity launches 'Beat the Benchmark' investing game

US financial services giant Fidelity Investments has unveiled an online educational investing game called 'Beat the Benchmark'.

Fidelity tests Google Glass markets app

US financial services giant Fidelity Investments has begun experimenting with Google Glass, developing an app that lets users keep an eye on the markets.

Financial services firms and Internet giants team to fight spam

Bank of America, Fidelity Investments and PayPal have joined with Google, Microsoft and Facebook to develop a set of e-mail authentication standards designed to reduce the threat of deceptive spam and phishing fraud.

Fidelity Investments creates 100 Irish tech jobs

US financial services giant Fidelity Investments has outlined plans to add 100 new technology jobs at its sites in Galway and Dublin, Ireland.

Nasdaq OMX to launch electronic Nordic Fund Market

Nasdaq OMX is to launch a new Nordic Fund Market (NFM) to provide an electronic alternative to manage the transactions between fund distributors and fund management companies.

Fidelity puts Indian IT outsourcing unit on the block - Economic Times

US investment house Fidelity has put the IT support arm of its captive Indian back office business on the market, the Economic Times reports, citing two anonymous sources close to the sale process.

Fidelity Investments taps Citi tech chief Adams

US mutual fund manager Fidelity Investments has named Citigroup's chief information officer (CIO) Marvin Adams as president of its shared services division, which includes its technology, operations and real estate units.

Wealth management IT spending to hit $28.5bn by 2012 - Datamonitor

Spending on front-to-back wealth management IT by financial institutions in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific will reach $28.5 billion by 2012, up from $20.5 billion in 2006, according to a report by market analyst Datamonitor.

Fidelity Investments spends $50m on integrated advisor platform

US mutual fund manager Fidelity Investments says it is investing $50 million in the development of a Web-based wealth management platform, called WealthCentral, which will integrate the most critical operational systems for registered investment advisors.

Boston Stock Exchange shuts down equities e-trading venture

The Boston Stock Exchange (BSE) has shut down the Boston Equities Exchange - the all-electronic equities trading platform it set up with five Wall Street banks - less than a year after the market opened for trading.

Fidelity and Lehman link ATS networks

Fidelity Brokerage and Lehman Brothers have linked their alternative trading networks in an effort to provide clients with a deeper liquidity pool for executing large orders.

Securities firms launch alternative trading system

Global securities firms Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Fidelity Brokerage Company, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch have teamed up to launch an alternative trading system called LeveL.

SunGard and Fidelity Investments sign brokerage services agreement

US mutual fund manager Fidelity Investments says it has inked a deal to integrate its brokerage, custody and clearing services with the transaction processing operations of the SunGard Transaction Network (STN).

Fidelity tops online brokerage study

A US study conducted by California-based Keynote Systems has found that Fidelity, Scottrade and Schwab deliver the best online experience for prospective brokerage customers, beating E*Trade which had topped the poll last year.

Stolen Fidelity laptop contains data on 196,000 HP workers

US mutual fund manager Fidelity Investments says a laptop containing the personal financial data of 196,000 retirement account customers has been stolen.

Fidelity Investments to open virtual store on Amazon

Fidelity Investments is teaming up with Internet retailer Amazon to launch an online financial services store.