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Company announcement/wealth

Motive Partners completes sale of Global Shares to JP Morgan

Motive Partners ("Motive"), a specialist private equity firm focused on growth equity and buyout investments in software and information services companies that serve the financial services industry ("financial technology"), has received the necessary regulatory approvals, and completes the sale of Global Shares to J.P. Morgan. Motive invested in Global Shares in August 2018, acquiring a ~40% stake in the business.

11 August 2022

News/payments

JP Morgan rolls out cross-border liquidity product in Saudi Arabia

JP Morgan Payments has launched a cross-border liquidity solution in Saudi Arabia, allowing clients to connect to liquidity pools in London and other international cities.

05 August 2022

Finextra TV/payments

EBAday 2022: Aligning compelling digital offerings with new generation and client demands

Renata Vilanova Lobo, Head of Global Clearing, Payments, J.P. Morgan, speaks at EBAday 2022 about how digital transformation has been re-shaping payments, the shift from digital as a cost-saving measure to a culture, how traditional banks can provide a compelling digital offering and competitive client experience aligned with new demanding expectations from the new generations and new client segments, and how technology is also having a cross-impact in other areas like liquidity and credit management.

14 June 2022

News/startups

JP Morgan leads $100m funding round for Codat

Codat, an API-based platform for business data sharing, has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round led by JP Morgan Growth Equity Partners.

09 June 2022

News/markets

Wall Street players launch syndicated loan platform

Some of the biggest banks on Wall Street are backing a new syndicated loan platform, called Versana, that is aiming to bring transparency, efficiency and velocity to the $5 trillion market.

17 March 2022

News/wealth

JP Morgan to buy share plan management software provider

JP Morgan has agreed to buy Global Shares, an Irish cloud-based provider of share plan management software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

15 March 2022

News/crypto

JP Morgan invests in blockchain intelligence platform TRM Labs

JP Morgan is the latest financial services giant to invest in blockchain intelligence platform TRM Labs.

01 March 2022

News/people

JP Morgan blockchain exec Christine Moy leaves

JP Morgan's Christine Moy is leaving her role as head of all things blockchain and crypto at the Wall Street giant.

23 February 2022

Company announcement/payments

Even adds real-time payments from JP Morgan for instant access to earned wages

Even, a leading financial benefits platform designed to provide financial resiliency and control to employees, today announced that millions of hourly workers across the U.S now have instant access to their earned wages.

10 November 2021

News/wholesale

Wealthtech player Tifin raises $47m

Tifin, an umbrella group operating a host of AI-powered fintech businesses in the asset and wealth management industry, has hit a $447 million valuation off the back of a $47 million Series C funding round joined by Hamilton Lane and existing investors JP Morgan Asset Management, Morningstar and Broadridge.

29 October 2021

News/wholesale

JP Morgan goes live with Proxymity digital proxy voting platform

JP Morgan's Securities Services has gone live with a digital proxy voting platform from Proxymity in Belgium, with more markets to follow.

26 October 2021

News/payments

UniCredit and JP Morgan employ Swift Go for payments between Europe and US

Utilising the banking cooperative’s low value remittance solution, UniCredit and JP Morgan have partnered to allow small businesses and consumers send fast and secure near real-time cross border payments at a competitive price with Swift Go.

08 October 2021

Company announcement/payments

DBS, Temasek and JPMorgan DLT payments platform Partior makes hires

Today, Partior, a newly-created, blockchain-based clearing and settlement technology platform, announced the appointment of Jason Thompson as its Chief Executive Officer. Based in Singapore, Jason will lead the company to become the technology platform of choice for financial institutions. Partior will innovate and drive efficient cross-border payments and foreign exchange payment vs payment (PvP) settlements using blockchain and smart contract technology.

01 October 2021

News/retail

JP Morgan's UK digital bank ready for launch

JP Morgan is set to open the virtual doors to its long-awaited UK digital retail bank next week.

17 September 2021

News/payments

JP Morgan starts processing US credit cards on Alibaba.com

JP Morgan Merchant Services has begun processing US credit card payments for Alibaba's B2B business unit.

16 September 2021

News/crypto

El Salvador becomes first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender

The central American nation today sets a world-first as it adopts the cryptocurrency for use across all goods and services – even taxes.

07 September 2021

News/markets

JP Morgan leads $50m funding round for investment analytics player Aumni

Aumni, an investment analytics platform that provides the data infrastructure for private capital markets, has closed a $50 million Series B funding round led by JP Morgan.

26 August 2021

News/markets

Wise opens the gate for US investors with ADR program

Wise has opened the door to US-based customers and retail and institutional investors seeking to invest in the company from September 2021.

20 August 2021

News/retail

JP Morgan Private Capital and AmEx invest in Plaid

Open banking platform Plaid has topped up its Series D financing round with investments from JP Morgan Private Capital Growth Equity Partners and Amex Ventures.

17 August 2021

News/cloud

Big banks invest in accounting software firm Freshbooks

Barclays, Bank of Montreal and JPMorgan have joined an US$80.75 million Series E funding round for Toronto-based cloud accounting software firm Freshbooks.

13 August 2021