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A kick in the privates: In-demand unlisted stock trading faces tech, transparency challenges A kick in the privates: In-demand unlisted stock trading faces tech, transparency challenges Private stocks are opaque, illiquid, behave differently from public markets, and lack the same infrastructure as public marketplaces, creating back-office integration challenges for firms that want to trade these stocks in a more liquid manner. But as interest grows, that’s starting to change. Print this page
The news that stock trading platform Robinhood may be building a platform to enable ordinary investors to participate in IPOs potentially including its own upcoming IPO alongside institutions has heightened existing excitement over the prospect of trading pre-IPO stock in private companies. While this may appeal most to investors fed up with volatile stock markets, or dreaming of acquiring stock in the next Apple or Microsoft before it goe ....
Alpha News Stream launches new portal Submitted 29/01/2021 - 10:11am Alpha News Stream (ANS), a cloud-delivered, highly customisable API newsfeed of financial headlines, has launched a website portal where investing, fintech, corporate and other organisations can easily engage the service. The ANS API curates English-language company and financial headlines from over 350 web news sources worldwide, via its public RSS feeds and the ANS search engine, adding useful metadata before delivering from the Amazon AWS cloud. Companies covered include those in all sectors of the NASDAQ, NYSE, TSX exchanges and the FT 100. The feed also includes North America press releases from Business Wire, PR Newswire, CNW Group, Globe Newswire and Accesswire. ....