Tagged: vanguard

December 2, 2025 @ 2:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vanguard Group, which claims to be one of the world’s largest asset managers, has reportedly made the decision to permit ETFs and mutual funds that mainly hold crypto-assets to be traded on its platform. Interestingly, this new move goes against a longstanding position that the… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 3:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

How times have changed. It was reported earlier today that Vanguard has emerged as the largest investor in Microstrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) [now called Strategy], the company that pretty much wrote the book on becoming a Bitcoin treasury play. The Street shares that according to new data… Read More

January 12, 2024 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Vanguard, a financial services firm with over 50 million investors, is blocking its customers from purchasing newly listed Bitcoin ETFs. The news was circulating on X yesterday, with Vanguard responding to questions about accessing Bitcoin EFTs as follows: “Thank you for your question! While we… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), in collaboration with Vanguard and Symbiont, has announced that the companies have completed the margin calculation process “for a live trade of a 30-day foreign exchange forward contract through the use of Assembly, Symbiont’s distributed ledger technology.” As mentioned in the… Read More

June 24, 2020 @ 8:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Vanguard, one of the world’s largest investment management firms with $5.9 trillion in global assets, is testing blockchain tech to improve and accelerate foreign exchange (FX) forward contracts. According to a release, Vanguard has partnered with Symbiont, Bankof New York Mellon, State Street, and Franklin… Read More

June 11, 2020 @ 10:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Vanguard is piloting blockchain technology in partnership with Symbiont, according to a note from the firm. Vanguard is one of the top fund management firms in the US and one of the world’s largest investment management companies. As of April, Vanguard managed about $5.7 trillion… Read More

January 5, 2020 @ 3:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pennsylvania-based Vanguard, a registered investment advisor with over $5.3 trillion in assets under management, announced on January 2 that it will be introducing zero-fee online stock and options trading to all Vanguard Brokerage clients. As mentioned in a release, this expands Vanguard Brokerage’s commission-free platform… Read More

December 15, 2019 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chinese Fintech firm Ant Financial Services (part of Alibaba (NYSE:BABA)) and US asset management company, The Vanguard Group, have launched a joint initiative that offers retail investment advisory and consulting services to investors in China, the companies revealed on December 13. The announcement has come… Read More

October 10, 2019 @ 9:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Vanguard Group, a registered investment advisor headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania with more than $5.3 trillion in assets under management, has teamed up with Symbiont, a crypto startup backed by Nasdaq Ventures. The partnership between Vanguard and Symbiont involves developing a trading platform for the… Read More

December 3, 2014 @ 2:30 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

After reading Orchard Platform’s Bill Ullman elegantly deliberated “Is Fin-Tech History Rhyming Again?” on the platform’s blog last week and prepared for Thanksgiving, I wondered how the early days of online trading revisit fintech and crowdfunding disruption innovation.  While prepping for last week’s feast, I… Read More