Institutional investors stories - Page 2

Allegro and Elliott-backed venture opens USD $500 million non-bank lending line for film and television projects.

Tether hires a Big Four auditor for its first full independent review of USD₮, backing more than USD $184 billion of the leading stablecoin.

Nasdaq links Calypso and Trade Surveillance to Talos to streamline tokenised collateral, uniting risk and compliance across on- and off-chain assets.

Ledger names John Andrews CFO and opens a New York office, boosting its US institutional push in digital asset security infrastructure.

Obin AI exits stealth with USD $7 million to build auditable AI agents for heavily regulated financial workflows and asset managers.

Australia backs bank-run stablecoin trials while shutting out consumers, risking faster payments that entrench, not challenge, the status quo.

Independent Reserve to launch new regulated crypto services for corporates and institutions across Singapore, Australia and UAE from 2026.

KuCoin launches AI Skills Hub, an open marketplace of modular tools letting agents tap exchange data and automate crypto workflows.

Cryptio raises USD $45m Series B to scale its digital asset ERP platform for banks, auditors and tokenisation firms handling on-chain data.

Alchelyst merges with Lyra Client Solutions to form a unified tech-enabled private markets servicing platform led by founder Joan Kehoe.

Sentinel Global rebuilds its AI-driven venture team around GIC veteran Jeremy Kranz and expands Sentinel Labs, targeting a 2026 fundraise.

Data centre boom drives new financing structures across Asia Pacific loan markets, APLMA whitepaper finds, reshaping risk and investor mix.

Fathom has deepened its partnership with AXA Climate's Altitude platform to embed richer probabilistic flood and terrain data for investors.

Partners for Growth unveils AUD $250m tech-focused private credit fund to offer non-dilutive growth finance to later-stage borrowers.

Colter Bay launches Australian private credit fund with AUD $100m facility to plug an estimated AUD $25bn lower mid-market funding gap.

Balyasny embeds an AI research platform across 95% of its hedge fund teams, aiming to speed investment analysis while tightening controls.

Carta acquires ListAlpha and launches Carta CRM, unifying front-office relationship tools with back-office fund data for private capital firms.

MSCI is buying Compass Financial Technologies to deepen its multi-asset and crypto index capabilities and expand bespoke benchmark services.

Q4 adds AI-focused optimisation to investor relations sites, helping listed firms surface verified disclosures in answer engines like ChatGPT.

Smart capital is flowing to infrastructure that lifts women, using digital tech to turn inclusion and resilience into core investment value.