ALADDIN IN THE NEWS

(Source: PIO) Singapore Life, Singapore, appointed an alliance formed between BlackRock Aladdin and Citi to provide asset management capabilities across its front, middle and back offices.

(Source: Aladdin) In a first for South Africa, STANLIB has onboarded Aladdin’s enterprise capabilities, BlackRock’s market leading investment technology to drive transformational growth by optimising the client experience and reducing complexity.

(Source: Business insider) In a tumultuous year for BlackRock, its powerful and widely used risk-analytics and portfolio-management technology Aladdin had a notably strong year, having won record new mandates.

Sudhir Nair chats with Victor Anderson about Aladdin’s win in the “Best IBOR” category. They discuss Aladdin as a world-class IBOR since day one, the importance of seamlessly integrated workflows, and the need for a whole portfolio solution.

(Source: CIO Magazine) In conversation with CIO, Sudhir Nair, Global Head the Aladdin Business, spoke about Aladdin's novel analytics and the possibility of augmenting the platform with alternative data and ESG data.

(Source: Financial times)Financial Times is reporting on money managers that are pouring money into investment platforms, trying to replicate BlackRock’s technology business, which has succeeded in bringing new streams of revenue in volatile markets.

(Source: CityWire) HSBC today announced the launch of its hybrid advisory service, HSBC Prism Advisory, in Asia, which uses BlackRock’s Aladdin Wealth technology combined with HSBC personal advisers.

(Source: WatersTechnology) Aladdin has been awarded ‘Best IBOR’ as part of the WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards 2022.

(Source: The Wall Street Journal) BlackRock, the world's largest money manager, announced a partnership with Coinbase Global.

BlackRock announced that a consortium of LP and Funds of Funds have partnered in an effort to streamline and standardize ESG reporting for private markets leveraging ESG Outreach to accelerate the collection, analysis and reporting of ESG data.

(Source: Citisoft) An interview with Sudhir Nair, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of the Aladdin Business, exploring BlackRock's evolving solutions strategy, operating model consolidation driven by M&A, the eFront acquisition, and more.

(Source: Microsoft) To facilitate the next chapter of growth and innovation for BlackRock and its Aladdin technology clients, BlackRock is moving its Aladdin investment platform to Microsoft Azure.

(Source: Central Banking) BlackRock's Aladdin has been awarded 'Best Risk Management Technology' as part of the 2022 Central Banking Awards.

(Source:Aladdin) Microsoft Treasury’s implementation of Aladdin has streamlined its operations, automated processes, and centralized investment data, allowing the team to efficiently manage multi-asset portfolios within one end-to-end solution.

(Source: Waterstechnology) The Aladdin whole portfolio view solution has been awarded 'Best integrated front-office platform' as part of the WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards 2021.

(Source: Waterstechnology) Aladdin Climate has been awarded 'Best buy-side risk management initiative over the last 12 months', as part of the WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards 2021.

(Source: Aladdin) Learn how NN Investment Partners, a Netherlands-based investment manager, integrated the Aladdin product suite to help increase agility, reduce complexity, and improve data accuracy – while keeping customers’ needs at the forefront.

(Source: BlackRock) BlackRock enters a strategic partnership with Cassini Systems to integrate Cassini’s margin analytics capabilities into the Aladdin platform.

(Source: BlackRock) Integration enables clients to leverage the Aladdin platform’s broad-based OEMS capabilities alongside FlexTrade’s leadership and expertise in EMS

(Source: ZDNet) BlackRock partners with Snowflake to launch Aladdin Data Cloud - an investment platform powered by Snowflake. This partnership will bring Aladdin and non-Aladdin data together and enable developers to utilize it via Aladdin Studio.

(Source: Waters Technology) Adding ESG principles into the investment process, BlackRock looks to build out new modeling tools for Aladdin users to better understand how their company’s decisions today can affect their performance in the future.

(Source: Institutional Investor) BlackRock launches Aladdin Climate to help investors measure both the physical risk of climate change and the transition risk to a low-carbon economy on portfolios with climate-adjusted securities and risk metrics.

(Source: The Wall Street Journal) BlackRock's third-quarter results show an increase of 18% in revenues despite all parts of the economy and markets being upended by the coronavirus pandemic.

(Source: Citigroup) Citigroup Inc. reached an agreement to provide middle-office services for investment managers using BlackRock Inc.’s Aladdin Provider platform.

(Source: Advisor Hub) Brokers are stepping up their use of risk-management tools for clients nervous about the coronavirus economy, according to software manufacturers, furthering their efforts to get a closer look ...

(Source: Business Wire) Northern Trust has entered into a strategic alliance with BlackRock to deliver enhanced operations, data, and servicing capabilities to mutual clients.

(Source: Institutional Investor) BlackRock is rolling out new updates to its flagship Aladdin platform as the asset management giant tries to take over even more of the portfolio management software market.

(Source: Business Insider) After completing its $1.3 billion acquisition of eFront in May 2019, BlackRock is integrating the alternative investment management software into the firm's crown jewel, Aladdin.

(Source: Ignite Europe) BlackRock wants its technology platform Aladdin to become the “language of portfolios” as it continues to see technology as a “key differentiator”.

(Source: Funds Europe) Santander Asset Management has adopted Aladdin, BlackRock’s operations system for investment managers, as part of its digital transformation.

(Source: Global Custodian) BlackRock's flagship investment operations platform - Aladdin - is quickly becoming the core infrastructure for custodian’s front-to-back servicing models.

(Source: Brinker Capital) Brinker Capital, a leading investment management company focused on multi-asset class investing, it will begin using BlackRock’s state of the art risk management platform, Aladdin Wealth...

(Source: BlackRock) BlackRock partners with Rhodium Group to develop solutions to help clients better understand the impacts of climate risk.

(Source: The Trade News) The asset management giant has turned to collaboration tools to help with client implementations during the pandemic lockdown.

(Source: Ignites) BlackRock is placing ESG research on par with analysis of fundamental and quantitative investment factors, in part by integrating it into its Aladdin portfolio management technology.

(Source: BNP Paribas) Agreement between custodian and asset manager will include BNP Paribas using Aladdin to perform middle-office outsourced services.

(Source: BlackRock) BlackRock and Microsoft Corp. have formed a strategic partnership to host BlackRock’s Aladdin infrastructure on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, bringing enhanced capabilities to BlackRock and its Aladdin clients ...

(Source: Business Insider) In Larry Fink's eyes, Aladdin isn't so different from a startup.

(Source: BlackRock) The combination of eFront with Aladdin will set a new standard in investment and risk management technology.

(Source: Business Insider) Individual investors are so impressed by BlackRock's risk evaluation technology that they're moving their money to the financial advisors who use it.

(Source: Wall Street Journal) Rivals Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and BlackRock Inc. are going to be integrating customer data with each other in a new alliance both companies hope will jump-start growth.

(Source: Reuters UK) HSBC has signed a deal to offer BlackRock’s Aladdin investment management software to the bank’s wealthy customers, in a boost to the U.S. asset manager’s plans to squeeze money from technology by selling it to rivals.