The Investment Association selects ipushpull to be part of new UK FinTech accelerator

UK FinTech accelerator

Powering the progression of tech adoption within the investment industry

LONDON, April 21st, 2020ipushpull, a leading enterprise platform that improves efficiency by allowing secure live data sharing and workflow automation, is pleased to announce that they have been chosen by The Investment Association (IA) to be part of its latest FinTech hub ‘Engine‘.

The accelerator programme will connect best-in-class FinTech innovators with investment managers looking to transform the industry. It will act as a catalyst for industry transformation and bring together focused tech solutions.

Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull, said:

We are delighted to be part of the IA’s unique programme driving greater adoption of new technologies across investment management. ipushpull and our data-as-a service solution has been recognised for innovation, quality of solution and our focus on key industry problem areas within the investment industry.”

ipushpull transforms data-driven workflow and improves efficiency across capital markets with real-time data sharing and workflow automation, delivering fast time-to-market and cost savings for data producers and services.

Working closely with the buy-side, the data as a service solution standardises and automates workflow using an innovative approach of bots and widely used chat applications. ipushpull has seen a dramatic increase in adoption of these solutions as buy-side traders are forced to work from home due to COVID-19.

John Macpherson, Deputy Chair of the IA Engine Advisory Panel, comments:

We have certainly witnessed transformational changes over the last couple of months and have seen technology enable firms to operationalise and compete in these unusual and difficult times. We’re thrilled to offer ipushpull access to our industry-recognised programme and excited at such new and innovative technology which the IA can showcase to trading desks of UK based asset managers“.

ipushpull will work with the IA and harness the industry expertise of its partners and networks. Also, as part of the eight-month accelerator program, the participants will receive mentoring from an industry-expert Engine Advisory Panel to help unlock potential for solutions throughout the sector, including Schroders, Aberdeen Standard Investments, Insight, Legal & General, M&G and UBS Asset Management.

Alongside ipushpull, the firms chosen are Exabel, Fundipedia, KiteEdge and Rungway.

 

Media contact for ipushpull

Melanie Budden

The Realization Group

+44 (0)7974 937 970

Melanie.budden@therealizationgroup.com

 

Media contact for The Investment Association

Katie Martin, Head of Communications: Katie.Martin@theia.org

44 (0)20 7831 0898

Press@theia.org

 

About ipushpull: 

ipushpull is transforming data-driven workflows and improving efficiency across capital markets with real-time data sharing and workflow automation. The Data-as-a-Service platform delivers fast time-to-market and big cost savings for data producers and services, providing unified, access-controlled data distribution into client applications (Custom Apps, Excel, Symphony, chat bots, notifications, APIs) and streamlining high-touch processes across the trade lifecycle with the ipushpull no-code custom applications and bot framework.

For more information about ipushpull and our solutions visit www.ipushpull.com.

 

About The Investment Association (IA):

The IA champions UK investment management, supporting British savers, investors and businesses. Our 250 members manage £7.7 trillion of assets and the investment management industry supports 100,000 jobs across the UK. Our mission is to make investment better. Better for clients, so they achieve their financial goals. Better for companies, so they get the capital they need to grow. And better for the economy, so everyone prospers. The UK is the second largest investment management centre in the world, after the US and manages 35% of all assets managed in Europe.

For more information about The Investment Association visit www.theia.org.

 

 

Full list of 2020 London FinTech events, meetups & conferences

London FinTech Events and Conferences

The UK FinTech sector continues to go from strength to strength, despite the Brexit-related challenges the economy has faced recently. Last year beat the record for UK fintech investment. London alone saw a record year with over $2bn of funding, surpassing even New York. With the continuing presence of large global financial services firms and easy access to capital, London is the place to be for startups. ipushpull, a UK-based FinTech company providing live data sharing and workflow automation, is one of many London-based companies benefiting from the wide array of opportunities on its doorstep.

With this continued buzz it’s no surprise that London will be full of interesting and exciting fintech events and conferences in 2020. We’ve compiled a list of all 2020 London fintech events and conferences happening across the city. Stay on top of these opportunities to move your business ahead of the competition in 2020.

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2020 London FinTech Events and Conferences to attend

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Euromoney TRADEDATA partners with UK fintech ipushpull to create on-demand ‘Data-as-a-Service’

on-demand Data

London, UK – 17th October 2019: Euromoney TRADEDATA is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with ipushpull, a powerful data sharing and workflow platform.

Euromoney TRADEDATA recognises that the on-demand model is the future of data consumption, particularly within community chat and messaging networks, as part of a suite of delivery systems required to service all parts of the market that need futures and options ref erence data.

Through a single connection to ipushpull Euromoney TRADEDATA can distribute data into a variety of applications including Symphony, the secure collaboration platform, with nearly half a million connected financial market users. The ipushpull platform provides Euromoney TRADEDATA with new distribution channels for secure, audited, access-controlled data delivery.

Mark Woolfenden, Managing Director of Euromoney TRADEDATA, comments:

“This is a very important integration for Euromoney TRADEDATA, as we begin to experiment with embedded, on-demand workflow functionality and delivery systems for our reference data. We recognise ipushpull as a leading exponent in data sharing workflow technology and we expect further benefits from their connections to other community messaging solutions. Also, as part of the offering, we can now offer a functionally rich Excel plugin for desktop users to access our reference data, which integrates seamlessly within users’ existing workflows. In addition, we look forward to working with ipushpull to develop a clutch of bots, to further enhance our customers’ experience in using our data services.”

Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull, comments:

“We’re excited to offer Euromoney TRADEDATA new avenues to deliver and monetise their data to a variety of desktop and cloud services. We see this innovative approach as the first step towards an on-demand ‘Netflix’-style distribution model for data producers and consumers.”

 

About ipushpull
ipushpull is a live data sharing and workflow automation platform improving efficiency by connecting data, applications and people in real time. The API-first platform enables the access-controlled and audited distribution of live, streaming or static data between multiple client applications.

 

About Euromoney TRADEDATA

Euromoney TRADEDATA is an established and trusted reference data provider to the futures and options industry for over 20 years. The company works closely with its customer base to innovate, develop and implement enhanced customised reference data solutions and market data vendor symbology.

 

Contacts


ipushpull

Katya Mironova

info@ipushpull.com

 

Euromoney TRADEDATA

Rebecca Storrar

rebecca.storrar@euromoneytradedata.com

 

 

NatWest Markets selects UK fintech ipushpull for sharing trade axes in real-time with the buy-side

Trade axes

London, UK – 1st October 2019: NatWest Markets is using ipushpull, a London-based fintech, to share trade axes in real-time with some of its largest buy-side clients. The ipushpull platform enables NatWest Markets to meet its clients’ needs through an interactive automated axe interface which supports customisation and filtering per counterparty. The platform also allows automation and delivery over multiple channels.

NatWest Markets chose the ipushpull platform because of the unique live data sharing and workflow automation capabilities that it provides.

ipushpull has over 20 integrations into applications and systems commonly used across capital markets. Initially, NatWest Markets will be using ipushpull’s Excel Add-in, Symphony App and APIs, and plans to use the ipushpull database loaders, FIX connectors and ChartIQ Finsemble integration in the near future.

Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull, comments:

“NatWest Markets are a trailblazer in their adoption of new technology, from buying best-of-breed applications such as ipushpull to hosting data on the cloud. We’re excited to work with NatWest Markets and look forward to being a long-term strategic partner for both pre-trade and post-trade workflows across the bank.”

Matthew Harvey, Head of FI Client Execution Platforms and Digital Sales at NatWest Markets, comments:

“The ipushpull team has significant domain expertise in capital markets workflow and their technology is helping us to improve efficiency on our sales desk which will meet the evolving trading needs of our clients. ipushpull’s innovative live data sharing and workflow automation platform enables us to bring an idea to a production application within weeks.”

About ipushpull
ipushpull is a live data sharing and workflow automation platform improving efficiency by connecting data, applications and people in real time. The API-first platform allows data to be centralised, access-controlled, audited and tracked between any of its live, streaming or static data connections. For more information visit www.ipushpull.com.

About NatWest Markets

NatWest Markets helps global financial institutions and corporates manage their financial risks and achieve their short-and long-term financial goals while navigating changing markets and regulation. We do this by providing global market access, financing, risk management and trading solutions. We operate from trading hubs in London, Singapore and Stamford with sales offices across key locations in the UK, EU, US and Asia.

 

Contacts


ipushpull

Katya Mironova

Marketing Manager

katya.mironova@ipushpull.com

 

NatWest Markets

Amy Cayzer

Media Relations Manager

amy.cayzer@natwestmarkets.com

 

 

The Regtech Book – End User Computing risk in a regulated world

Regtech book

We’ve been waiting for this event for a while and finally, ipushpull CTO David Jones is a published author! He’s contributed a chapter to the newly published The RegTech Book, a comprehensive review of the fast-growing RegTech ecosystem and its potential to transform the financial services industry.

The RegTech Book covers a broad range of topics. It investigates how new technologies, including AI and blockchain, can be applied to compliance. It looks at the economic impact of digitization and datafication of regulation. And it studies how regulators themselves can help drive the process through collaborations with RegTech pioneers and innovations such as regulatory sandboxes. Other contributors bringing their industry expertise to the book alongside David include compliance professionals, regulators, business leaders and entrepreneurs.

RegTech book

It’s 2019 and people are still using spreadsheets

David’s chapter, Old Tech + New Tech = RegTech: Excel Spreadsheets and End User Computing in a Regulated World, describes how legacy IT and ingrained working cultures in organisations lead to business and regulatory risks. It focuses specifically on the problems of managing and de-risking the vast numbers of End User Computing (EUC) solutions, usually spreadsheets, that institutions still rely on today to keep their businesses running.

A number of widely-reported failures exacerbated by EUCs, including the ‘London Whale’ trading debacle that cost JP Morgan $6bn in 2012, prompted regulators to oblige banks to monitor and control their use. The Dodd-Frank, Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley Acts insist that banks keep a comprehensive inventory of pricing and risk models, including EUCs, and implement internal control structures around their use.

David’s chapter discusses the actions banks must take to comply with these regulations and the RegTech tools they can use to discover the extent of their EUC dependency, maintain their EUC inventories and, ultimately, reduce the number of manual spreadsheet-driven workflows.

Breaking away

At ipushpull we help our customers to solve the last stage of this challenge. Our platform enables them to automate manual workflows from front to back office, internally and between counterparties. This reduces spreadsheet dependency, improves efficiency and layers control, audit and monitoring over previously unmanaged processes.

Our partners at Hub85 solve the first two stages. Their innovative spreadsheet governance solution automates the discovery and management of a company’s EUC dependency, uncovers risks within sheets and maps data lineage between them. Their Business Intelligence module is particularly powerful, providing graphical insights into EUC usage from the overall organisation level down to the individual spreadsheet.

By providing insight into the real-world challenges facing financial institutions and the regulators’ response to them, plus suggesting an actionable roadmap to ultimately solving these problems, David’s chapter is representative of the wide range of articles published in The Regtech Book. It’s essential reading for compliance professionals, regulators and policy makers, and it’s available now in store and on Amazon.

 

To find out more about how ipushpull can reduce your reliance on spreadsheets for business-critical processes, please get in touch with sales@ipushpull.com.

ipushpull sponsors Symphony Innovate Asia 2019 – Singapore

Symphony Innovate Asia 2019

On June 13th 2019, ipushpull will be sponsoring Symphony Innovate Asia 2019, being held this year in the sunny Lion City of Singapore. The long-awaited exotic event features insightful talks and a showcase of the latest innovations for a gathering of financial and technology industry experts.

Join ipushpull at Symphony Innovate where CTO David Jones, plus the EMEA and APAC team will be demonstrating the most recent platform developments.

We will present the latest use cases and innovative workflow integrations, which the team built on Symphony combined with award-winning ipushpull technology. Learn how pre-trade price negotiation, post-trade matching and similar capital markets workflows can be easily automated and digitised within the Symphony platform.

Innovate Asia 2019 – The Event Itself

Symphony Innovate Asia 2019 is a one-day conference where executives, developers, and industry experts from the APAC community will come together and discuss the roles of secure collaboration and workflow automation in the new digital workplace.

The event will see executive appearances from leading financial institutions such as SGX, MAS, Bank of Singapore and Goldman Sachs alongside representatives from the FinTech firms that are spearheading innovation in the sector.

If you are visiting on the day, pop in to the ipushpull stand where the team will be showcasing ipushpull’s updated Symphony app. With capabilities such as in-chat trade status reporting, charting analytics, PDF outputs plus in-chat live data sharing and collaboration, there will surely be something to catch your attention.

 

Symphony Innovate Asia 2019

 

ipushpull to be part of the Lord Mayor’s FinTech delegation to China

FinTech delegation to China

A select number of UK based FinTechs have been selected for a UK FinTech trade delegation in March 2019, travelling to China with the City of London Lord Mayor. As part of the FinTech delegation, ipushpull will represent the cutting edge of the London start-up scene while presenting and speaking at forums in Shenzhen and Shanghai to technology firms, banks, funds, VC’s and Chinese government officials. This trip is part of a larger effort that is aimed at creating a “FinTech Bridge” between the UK and China, with the objective of developing dialogue and boosting market access for companies in both countries.

The UK currently is one of the world’s leading FinTech innovation hubs that attracts the most investment in Europe. As China looks to overtake the US technology sector, already accounting for 47% of all global VC funding in 2018, the UK becomes another desirable technology partner to expand its global reach and opening new avenues for collaboration.

The City of London Lord Mayor’s FinTech delegation trip will span Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing – three megacities which have taken the lead in technology and innovation within China:

Shenzhen, known as the ‘new Silicon Valley’, borders Hong Kong and is home to 12 million people and one of the largest technology companies in the world, Tencent, worth $420bn, creator of WeChat – China’s ‘super app‘ – and bigger in the investment scene than Google and Facebook. Other major global tech players based in the Pearl River Delta City include Huawei, telecoms and mobile phone manufacturer, which in 2018 sold nearly as many phones as Apple, hardware maker Xiaomi which established itself in low cost mobile phones and is now a global leader in IOT home devices and perception AI and DJI, the worlds largest drone maker, estimated to own 50% of the North American drone market.

Shanghai, is China’s largest city with 26 million inhabitants housing the Lujiazui Financial City, or ‘Wall Street of China’ – the largest financial zone in China. The city’s financial power is only set to grow after President Xi Jinping announced in November 2018 that Shanghai will open a new technology stock exchange to rival the NASDAQ. This forms part of China’s plan to improve capital markets and to stem the flow of Chinese companies listing in the US.

Beijing, the 3000 year old city, is the capital of China, home to the four largest banks in the world by total assets (ICBC, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank and Bank of China) and at the global forefront of AI, aiming to be the world leader in AI by 2025. Beijing is building a $2 billion AI research park near tech companies and elite Chinese universities to help achieve this goal. The city also has a thriving start-up scene spearheaded by Bytedance, the world’s most valuable private technology company, valued at $75 billion at the last funding round.

Fintech delegation to CHina

 

UK technology start-ups, HSBC, KPMG and VC firm Anthemis will be travelling with the delegation and participating in events and meetings with China’s finance and technology thought leaders. As part of the Shenzhen Municipal Financial Services Bureau and City of London Fintech Forum, ipushpull will be presenting to a wide range of leading Chinese firms such as Tencent, China Merchants Bank, CITIC Securities, Ping An and the PBOC. ipushpull CEO Matthew Cheung will also be participating in a panel discussion in Shanghai in front of representatives from the major Chinese exchanges, clearing houses and securities firms speaking alongside Citibank and Ant Financial on the future of FinTech innovation.

In 2018 China raised an aggregate of $111.63 billion overtaking the US and Silicon Valley in venture capital. As China divests away from the US, plagued by trade wars and Committee on Foreign Investment reviews, China seeks a stronger dialog with the UK’s leading Fintech firms, helping ambitious companies that want to set up operations in China and providing opportunities for large Chinese Fintechs and investors to enter the UK market. A large investment from China has already been seen from Chinese FinTech payment firm Ant Financial (spun out of Alibaba’s Ali Pay) – now worth $150 billion – which recently bought UK payments firm World First for $700 million.

We will be publishing more on our blog and social media as the trip progresses. Follow us on Twitter and Linkedin to keep up with the Fintech delegation in China.

 

 

 

 

ipushpull named in top ‘100 FinTech influencers’ 2019 for second year running

fintech influencers

London, UK – 6th February 2019: For a second year in a row ipushpull has been named as one of the “100 Most Influential FinTech Companies”by a judging panel of experts from the financial community, published in the Financial Technologist Magazine by Harrington Starr. This year the panel has included influential thought leaders from a range of diverse backgrounds in finance and technology, including David Williams, Partner, Financial Services Technology Advisory at EY; Lee Tindell, CTO Business Technology at Man Group; George Morris, Partner Information, Communications and Technology at Simmons & Simmons. Brought together with the aim of identifying how technology can tackle problems faced by the financial industry, the FinTech influencers list celebrates those companies which provide industry solutions that matter and the ones to watch.

ipushpull is delighted to have been given this distinction and named in the top 100 influential FinTech companies once more. During the past year ipushpull have been working hard to identify even further, the use cases and challenges that are facing capital markets. The FinTech has been working with a variety of buy-side and sell-side firms as well as IDBs and financial software vendors to provide award winning workflow automation solutions eliminating manual, complex process often involving emails and file sharing.

Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull, comments:

“We are delighted to be recognised as a FinTech influencer for the second year running highlighting the transformational work we are doing with tier 1 banks, brokers and funds in capital markets workflow automation and real-time interoperability”. 

Through a suite of real-time integrations connected by the cloud, ipushpull allows real-time collaboration, workflow automation and interoperability between any application. Frequently, the disparate systems within financial services and the lack of interoperability between applications exposes the need for better, faster data and more efficient workflow. The solutions developed by ipushpull solves these issues while removing expensive in-house development.

About ipushpull

ipushpull (https://www.ipushpull.com/) is a cloud based real-time data sharing and workflow automation platform. Used across sell-side and buy-side, and front to back office, ipushpull improves workflow efficiency by allowing cross application secure, audited, access-controlled live data sharing, collaboration, and workflow automation. The API first platform handles static, live, and streaming data with APIs, integrations, and connectors into many data platforms and services. The platform has won numerous including the inaugural Symphony Innovation Award and FIA Innovator 2018. The company is a member of the highly selective JP Morgan In-Residence Programme. For more information visit ipushpull.com.

Contacts

ipushpull
Matthew Cheung
CEO
+44(0)2038084805
info@ipushpull.com

 

fintech influencers

 

 

Meet the ipushpull team this fall at Fintech trade shows and hackathons

fintech trade shows

After the success earlier this year at Symphony Innovate Asia where ipushpull won the Symphony Innovation award, our list of shows and events we are presenting at has developed a life of its own – to include some of the best in capital markets innovation – and we would love to meet you there! Our talented technology team are also attending the hackathon with Barclays and ISDA, so keep in touch to see our developments in the fields of live data sharing, real-time interoperability and workflow automation that has the industry talking about ipushpull.

Here’s a list of capital market and fintech trade shows & hackathons you can find us at this fall:

11-12 September: Trade Tech FX Europe 2018, Barcelona

Say, this has already happened! Yes it has but we were part of the ‘Dragon’s Den’ style innovation session, presenting to an audience of over 500 heads of FX from the buy-side and sell-side Europe’s leading firms. Like the gladiators of trade tech, we were pitched against other solutions for FX traders, with CEO Matthew Cheung a speaker at the event.

20-21 September: Barclays ISDA Derivhack, London & NY

Our brilliant CTO David Jones and the rest of the team recently participated in the Barclays DerivHack at the Barclays Rise accelerator space in London’s very own ‘Silicon Roundabout’. Competing with blockchain companies such as Digital Asset and R3 the team came up with innovative ways to utilise the ISDA Common Domain Model for data standards, finding new and efficient ways to model pre and post-trade processing of OTC derivatives contracts.

Coming up next

03 October: Symphony Innovate 2018, New York

This show is one of our favourites in the annual calendar and plays host to 500 leading executives, engineers, and thought leaders and Symphony users from around the global finance community. Some of the topics under discussion include the evolving digital workplace and the roles of secured collaboration, machine learning and workflow automation. ipushpull will be showcasing a sales & trading workflow on the main stage. Join us to find out more about how ipushpull and Symphony can supercharge workflow.

03 October: J.P.Morgan Annual Technology Innovation Symposium 2018, Palo Alto

The other half of our team will be at this prestigious invite-only event for 200 Silicon Valley CEOs, JPM execs, VCs and leading Fintechs to exchange ideas on technology and innovation trends. If you’re attending, we’ll see you there!

16-18 October: FIA Innovation Pavillion 2018, Chicago

Take a trip to Chicago for the fantastic Innovation program FIA has created at its annual Futures and Options Expo to highlight the latest advances in financial technology, and promote entrepreneurship in the derivatives industry. Find ipushpull at the Innovators Pavilion, where a select group of fintech startups will be showing off their solutions and insights.

If you would like to schedule a meeting with one of our team at a show, do get in touch as we’re always happy to meet you on the day. Just email sales@ipushpull.com

Alternatively, feel free to drop in on our stand at one of the shows.

ipushpull Added to New ChartIQ Fintech Ecosystem

chartiq

London, UK – 13th September 2018: ipushpull are pleased to announce they are joining the Finsemble partner ecosystem, part of ChartIQ. pushpull is an “API first”platform improving workflow efficiency by allowing secure live data sharing and automation between desktop applications like Microsoft Excel, databases, mobile devices, and cloud services in real-time. The partnership between ipushpull and ChartIQ extends significant value to Finsemble customers who want to enhance data sharing and automation capabilities, create top performing workflows quickly, and increase efficiency in the front office and beyond.

Finsemble is the only desktop integration platform that provides institutions with production ready, customizable technology that connects any number of disparate applications together. The Finsemble Ecosystem allows clients to discover, choose, and combine third-party applications into a custom desktop experience for their users. Additionally, the ecosystem accelerates the integration of leading fintech applications that organizations depend on and does so with no development work for the customer. Supported by a group of fintech vendors, Finsemble drives firms’ desktop strategies from vision to reality, faster.

ipushpull, now a premier partner of the Finsemble Ecosystem, has won numerous awards for innovation (from both Symphony and Benzinga) and is widely used in the industry. Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull, comments, “the application interoperability that Finsemble offers combined with ipushpull’s data interoperability provides a seamless, efficient workflow not only for the front office but right across capital market functions. We are delighted to be part of the Finsemble Ecosystem which allows rapid deployment and plug-and-play functionality compared to existing applications and projects which take months or even years to roll out.”

The integration of ipushpull into Finsemble is the result of a tier 1 bank requesting out-of-the-box functionality and specific workflow between apps for their front office. “In an industry where critical data is often locked away in Excel workbooks, ipushpull allows clients to consolidate, distribute, and collaborate on that data in real time. Having ipushpull join our ecosystem adds bidirectional Excel integration to the growing list of capabilities of the open Finsemble desktop,”adds Dan Schleifer, CEO of ChartIQ.

About ipushpull
ipushpull is a cloud based real-time data sharing and workflow automation platform. Used across sell-side and buy-side, and front to back office, ipushpull improves workflow efficiency by allowing cross application secure, audited, access-controlled live data sharing, collaboration, and workflow automation. The API first platform handles static, live, and streaming data with APIs, integrations, and connectors into many data platforms and services. For more information visit ipushpull.com.

About ChartIQ/Finsemble
ChartIQ provides HTML5 components and the Finsemble integration platform to banks, brokerages, trading platforms, and financial portals worldwide. Using ChartIQ technology, large organizations are able to assemble and integrate different types of applications in hours instead of months. ChartIQ establishes new desktop experiences out of the box and provides production ready solutions that clear a path to faster deployments and better looking products. With over 250+ global customers, ChartIQ is one of the fastest growing companies in fintech and serves many of the largest names in finance, including Factset, Fidessa, Nasdaq, and eToro to name a few. For more information, visit chartiq.com.

Contacts

ipushpull
Matthew Cheung
CEO
+44 (0) 20 3808 4805
info@ipushpull.com

ChartIQ
Hanni Chehak
Director of Marketing
+1 (800) 821 8147
hanni@chartiq.com