TORONTO, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) – AGF Management Limited (AGF or the Company) (TSX: AGF.B) today announced financial results for the first quarter ended February 29, 2020. AGF reported total assets under management (AUM) of $37.4 billion compared to $38.8 billion in the same period in 2019. Average daily mutual fund AUM increased to $19.5 billion [...]
SINGAPORE, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — LiquidX, the global network for illiquid assets, is excited to announce the addition of Emirates NBD to its network. Emirates NBD is a leading bank that is recognized as a digital thought leader in the MENAT region. Emirates NBD was also recently named the “Bank of the Year – [...]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden and JAKARTA, Indonesia, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – KSEI (PT Kustodian Sentral Efek Indonesia), the central securities depository (CSD) of Indonesia, has successfully gone live with a new CSD solution by market technology provider Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ). The new and state-of-the-art CSD platform from Nasdaq provides KSEI with increased capacity and speed, with the new [...]
Denver, Colorado, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd. (FPSB), owner of the international CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER certification program outside the United States, reported another year of growth for the global CFP certification program in 2019, as the total number of CFP professionals worldwide rose to 188,104. With a net increase of 6,744 [...]
LEAWOOD, Kan., Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Ria Money Transfer, a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT) and a global leader in the money transfer industry, today announced the opening of its first store in Singapore. Located in Kerbau Road 8 in the Little India area, customers can now send money with competitive foreign [...]
BOSTON, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates that insured losses due to wind from Winter Storm Ciara-Sabine will range between EUR 1.1 billion and EUR 1.9 billion, the majority of which are expected in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. AIR Worldwide is a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business. Storm Ciara was [...]
New York, NY, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Global Infrastructure Partners (“GIP”), a leading independent global infrastructure investor today announced that a team from Hillbrook Partners, including both of its founding partners, Charles Roast and Justin Symonds, have joined GIP in London. They will focus on infrastructure investments in the transportation sector. Hillbrook Partners, which [...]
BOSTON, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Quantopian today announced that Phil Snow, CEO of FactSet, has joined Quantopian’s Board of Directors on December 19, 2019. As a result of FactSet’s involvement, Quantopian’s Board of Directors has 8 seats. FactSet and Quantopian, in 2018, launched a pioneering data analysis solution called Quantopian Enterprise that allows quantitative financial analysts to research [...]
NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Nasdaq, Inc. (the “Company”) (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced that it priced a public offering of €600 million aggregate principal amount of 0.875% senior notes due 2030 (the “Offering”). The Company expects to use the net proceeds from the Offering to refinance indebtedness and for other general corporate purposes. [...]
NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Nasdaq, Inc. (the “Company”) (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced that it plans to offer, subject to market and other conditions, Euro-denominated senior notes (the “Offering”). The Company expects to use the net proceeds from the Offering to refinance indebtedness and for other general corporate purposes. J.P. Morgan Securities plc, [...]