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Jun 03
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Maybank Kim Eng Singapore is the First Broker to Partner Smartkarma for Private Investor Solutions

By | Smartkarma Press Releases

SINGAPORE, 3 JUNE 2021: Maybank Kim Eng Securities Pte Ltd (“Maybank Kim Eng Singapore”) is the first broker in Singapore to partner with Smartkarma to make its Private Investor Solutions available to Maybank Kim Eng Singapore’s qualified clients. Under this partnership, Maybank Kim Eng Singapore’s clients and trading representatives can access institutional-level investment insight on Smartkarma’s innovative online network, where they will find a unique range of actionable ideas, insights and tools to help them in their investment decisions.

Smartkarma Private Investor Solutions delivers personalised insight at scale for private accredited investors or their trading representatives. Besides extensive access to timely, high-quality insight, users benefit from real- time alerts on their portfolio, financial data and analytics, and events such as analyst presentations and roadshows. With this partnership, users join a platform already trusted by over 200 global institutional investors and market participants with more than US$13 trillion in Assets Under Management and quoted regularly by top financial press.

Aditya Laroia, Chief Executive Officer, Maybank Kim Eng Singapore said, “This partnership with Smartkarma will enable us to provide unique insights that will complement our award-winning ASEAN Research platform offerings, significantly differentiating Maybank Kim Eng’s service offering from discount brokers as well as other full-service private brokers. We are bringing information and idea generation as the final component of Maybank Kim Eng’s trifecta of value added offerings for clients, along with trading technology and client-focused and differentiated customer service. We recognise that investors are more sophisticated and informed today and want to be at the forefront of helping them invest and trade profitably by removing the disadvantages private investors face compared to institutional investors in terms of research access.”

He added, “We have seen a structural pick-up in private participation across global markets including Singapore. With increased market participation, especially from Millennials and Gen Z’ers, individuals take more control of their wealth creation, supporting retail momentum in equity markets when traditional investment assets such as property are being impacted by cooling and control measures. This investment knowledge and education will help to achieve better market efficiency and greater liquidity, plus information is a key component for well- functioning financial markets.”

Raghav Kapoor, CEO and Co-Founder of Smartkarma, said: “We are excited to work with Maybank Kim Eng Singapore. As we continue to democratise access to independent insight, Maybank Kim Eng-introduced investors can now enjoy timely delivery of high quality insights, specifically targeted through superior understanding of their needs – that’s why Bloomberg has called Smartkarma ‘the Spotify of Research’.”

“Maybank Kim Eng’s private clients will be some of the first to read actionable ideas on the APAC and US markets, find independent insight on IPOs and Event-Driven ideas that gets regularly quoted by top financial media, and access a highly customisable reading experience tailored to their specific needs,” added Raghav.

Chan Kum Kong, Senior Vice-President and Head of Research and Products at SGX, an investor in Smartkarma, said: “This partnership creates a unique value proposition for private investors. Smartkarma’s independent and institutional-grade content helps guide effective investment decisions. This offering, combined with Maybank Kim Eng’s trading technology and customer-centric approach, comes at a time when we see an elevated level of domestic and regional private participation in the Singapore market. An area of growing interest is sustainable finance and ESG; investors can look forward to more resources on sgxacademy.com where we partner with Smartkarma to develop some of these educational and training programmes.”

Maybank Kim Eng Singapore (previously known as Kim Eng Holdings) was the first stockbroker to be listed on the Singapore Exchange in 1990. We provide investors with access to a wide range of products and services such as stocks, warrants, exchange traded funds (ETFs), Real Estate Investment Trust (REITs) and Daily Leverage Certificates (DLCs), and through our new trading platform MKE Trade, access to global markets like Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), Bursa Malaysia, Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx), Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect, London Stock Exchange (LSE), New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), NASDAQ and NYSE Arca.

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About Maybank Kim Eng

Maybank Kim Eng is the fully-owned investment banking arm of Maybank, one of Asia’s leading banking groups and South East Asia’s fourth largest bank by assets. The Maybank Kim Eng group of companies comprises businesses stretching around the globe with offices in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Vietnam, Great Britain and the United States of America. Maybank Kim Eng has been in Asia for more than 40 years and offers a suite of financial solutions, which include debt advisory and arrangement via bonds/sukuk, project financing, leveraged financing and loan syndication, corporate finance, equity capital markets, merger and acquisition advisory, sector advisory, strategic advisory, equities derivatives, retail and institutional securities broking and research. A leader in many of the Asian markets that it operates in, Maybank Kim Eng has won numerous prestigious awards in the markets that it serves.

(www.maybank-ke.com.sg)

About Smartkarma

Smartkarma is the independent investment research network that brings together independent Insight Providers, institutional investors, private accredited investors, and corporate IR professionals and management. We challenge conventions by providing differentiated, independent analysis on companies, markets, and industries across the world. This includes insights on areas under-reported by mainstream market coverage, including Event-Driven, IPOs & Placements, and Small/Mid-Cap Equities, as well as a wealth of financial data and analytics provided by exchanges, banks, brokers, and more. Smartkarma’s online platform empowers asset managers and private accredited investors who want to access market-moving, differentiated intelligence; corporates who need to maximise their outreach; and analysts who wish to reach global investors with their written reports and bespoke services. Smartkarma is backed by notable investors such as Sequoia Capital, SGX, Wavemaker Partners, Jungle Ventures, and Enterprise Singapore. Learn more at www.smartkarma.com/home/private-investor-solutions

For more information, please contact:

Lucinda Lam : [email protected]

Michael Tegos : [email protected]

Apr 30
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Smartkarma Presents INSIGHT 2020 - a New Type of Investment Conference, in Support of COVID-19 Relief Efforts

Smartkarma Presents INSIGHT 2020 – a New Type of Investment Conference, in Support of COVID-19 Relief Efforts

By | Smartkarma Press Releases

INSIGHT 2020 will be a digital-first, Asia-focused investment conference, uniquely backed by four regional exchanges (SGX, JPX, SET, NZX) and key sponsors including global investment banks, VCs, and investment professionals. All proceeds will be donated to UNICEF’s COVID-19 relief efforts in East Asia and the Pacific – buy your ticket or donate to help us contribute towards this cause.

SINGAPORE, 30 APRIL 2020: COVID-19 has changed how we interact, do business, and share knowledge. Reiterating our conviction in the power and value of our online network, INSIGHT 2020 is Smartkarma’s response to this new challenge. INSIGHT 2020 is an all-digital event, available to everyone and streaming worldwide, enabling participants to create meaningful relationships and collaboration, and contribute in these trying times.

The investment industry is often portrayed as profit-driven, greedy, and self-serving – we want to challenge this picture as well, and use the opportunity to give back. That’s why proceeds from INSIGHT 2020 will be donated to UNICEF, to go towards their COVID-19 relief efforts in the East Asia and Pacific regions. This means that everyone can help this cause by either buying a ticket for INSIGHT 2020 or making a donation of their choice to UNICEF through our website.

In this endeavour, we are proud and privileged to have with us valuable partners and sponsors including regional exchanges (SGX, JPX, SET, NZX), global investment banks (Société Générale), leading VCs (Sequoia, Wavemaker, Jungle Ventures), tech disruptors (AWS, iSTOX), and top investment managers, advisors, and intelligence providers (Oasis, Dechert, Acuris). We are extremely grateful for their support and we look forward to welcoming more partners in this trailblazing effort.

Investment conferences traditionally tend to be one-note and overpriced, and place ego above value. INSIGHT 2020 distills the investment conference down to what really matters. It’s a multi-day digital event that puts profit to purpose and brings together investors, analysts, business heads, regional exchanges, industry thought leaders, and firms including McKinsey, DBS, Google, Ping An, China Renaissance, and more.

This unique 360-degree perspective means that attendees have the chance to hear from key incumbents, dominant disruptors, industry experts, financial intermediaries, and policymakers, all in one event. We put your interests front and centre, tackle the topics and questions that you care about, and bring some much-needed clarity in this time of insecurity and disarray.  

To further demonstrate our conviction in what can be achieved through our online network, we can help you launch your own all-digital, INSIGHT-style event. Investors can get in touch with us and find out how they can organise their own private INSIGHT, and benefit from the reinvented vision of investment conferences that Smartkarma is putting forward.

Our key thesis, the democratisation of connectivity and access, has never been more important: with markets in turmoil, businesses facing uncertainty, and general upheaval, we must ensure that the lines of communication don’t break down; that information and intelligence remain accessible; that connections and relationships can still be forged.

This is the time to be connected. This is the time for clear, independent insight. This is our Smartkarma.

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Media contact:

Smartkarma

Michael Tegos

Tel: +65 6715 1480

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

About Smartkarma

Smartkarma is an online investment research network that brings together independent Insight Providers, institutional investors, and corporate investor relations professionals and management. Smartkarma reinvents Equity and Credit Research by providing differentiated, independent analysis on companies, markets, and industries across the world. This includes areas under-reported by mainstream market coverage, including Event-Driven, IPOs & placements, and small/mid-cap equities. Smartkarma’s online platform enables corporate and buy-side clients to streamline their communication and data reporting, and allows them to set their own real-time alerts, customise their reading lists, directly contact Insight Providers, and remain MiFID II-compliant as unbundling regulations change the investment research industry. For more information, visit www.smartkarma.com.

Nov 15
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Smartkarma Appoints Pierre-Michel Dumesnil and Ashutosh Sinha to Its Advisory Council

By | Smartkarma Press Releases

SINGAPORE, 15 NOVEMBER 2019: Smartkarma is excited to announce the two latest appointments to the Smartkarma Advisory Council. Pierre-Michel Dumesnil and Ashutosh Sinha have over 40 years of capital market experience between them, in a variety of sell-side and buy-side roles at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, and more.

Pierre-Michel Dumesnil has over 20 years of experience in equities within leading investment banks in New-York, Hong Kong, London, and Paris. He has been a Director at ABN AMRO Bank NV, Vice President at Goldman Sachs, and Head of Sales Cash Equity at Credit Suisse, where he was involved in numerous “One Bank” projects, such as developing a platform to service private banking family offices and provide them with the best of CS equity franchise. He is currently based in Singapore, where he is involved in education as a guest speaker at Essec Business School and part of the executive committee of Lycée Français de Singapour.

Ashutosh Sinha is a Senior Portfolio Manager covering emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management in Singapore. He is also the CEO of MSIM Co., Singapore. He has over 25 years experience as a fund manager covering Asian and Emerging Markets. Previously, he founded and served as Managing Partner of Amoeba Capital Partners, a money management firm focused on Asia long-short equity investing. Ashutosh holds a B.Tech Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) of Kanpur and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) of Kolkata.

The Smartkarma Advisory Council is comprised of individuals with substantial industry experience and expertise in global capital markets and the investment industry, in which Smartkarma operates. The Advisory Council plays a key role in supporting the activities and direction of the company. Advisory Council members graciously offer their time and experience to provide advice and feedback, and offer specific guidance on designated business areas, helping Smartkarma advance its mission of uniting all stakeholders within the investment ecosystem.

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Media contact:

Smartkarma

Michael Tegos

Tel: +65 6715 1480

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

About Smartkarma

Smartkarma is a global investment research network that brings together independent Insight Providers, institutional investors, and corporate investor relations professionals and management. Smartkarma reinvents Equity and Credit Research by providing differentiated, independent analysis on companies, markets, and industries across the world. This includes areas under-reported by mainstream market coverage, including Event-Driven, IPOs & placements, and small/mid-cap equities. Smartkarma’s online platform enables corporate and buy-side clients to streamline their communication and data reporting, and allows them to set their own real-time alerts, customise their reading lists, directly contact Insight Providers, and remain MiFID II-compliant as unbundling regulations change the investment research industry. For more information, visit www.smartkarma.com.

Oct 29
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Smartkarma Launches Pan-Asian Credit Research to Provide Full-scale Cross-Asset Research Coverage on One Unified Network

By | Smartkarma Press Releases

It will be the largest Asian Credit Research collection accessible on one platform, powered by over 120 years of collective credit analyst experience

SINGAPORE, 29 OCTOBER 2019: Global investment research network Smartkarma today announces the launch of pan-Asian Credit Research, bringing together the best independent minds in Asian fixed income markets. 

On top of the rich pool of Equity, Macro, Capital Markets, and Event-Driven Research that Smartkarma clients already have access to, they can now gain unique insights on Asian Credit Research. Research notes will range from analysis of new credit issuances to high-conviction bottom-up work and core thematic research.

With over 120 years of collective credit analyst experience, Smartkarma will be the largest collection of Asian Credit Research found on one platform. Clients will be able to access morning notes, tear sheets, thematic in-depth reports, debt-capital markets, and new issuance analysis. They can also engage analysts directly for Q&As and other bespoke work. 

Our all-encompassing cloud-based platform allows for cross-sector and cross-asset collaboration, giving users a unique perspective on how to invest across the capital structure of a company. This is yet another step by Smartkarma to foster a vibrant and diverse ecosystem for research.

This couldn’t be more timely, as legacy institutions are shedding thousands of credit and equity analyst positions post-MiFID II. 

In this launch, Smartkarma is proud to have Singapore Exchange (SGX) as our partner. As part of our collaboration, SGX Bond Trading (SGX BT) clients will be able to access this unique research solution, which complements SGX-BT’s institutional bond trading platform. 

“Smartkarma helps connect our clients to valuable, curated, independent research on a flexible and efficient platform. We are delighted to see Smartkarma expand convincingly into the credit space in Asia. Our clients, ranging from issuers to investors, will welcome the one-stop access to the largest collection of Asian credit research,” says Mark Leahy, Head of Fixed Income at SGX.

At the same time, we are bolstering our platform with new and existing Insight Providers that have a proven track record in Credit Research. New addition Lucror Analytics is a developed and emerging markets high-yield specialist that will meaningfully contribute to Smartkarma. Existing research provider Bondcritic will also bring its experience on Asian distressed, high-yield, and non-rated bonds. Last but not least, the roster features notable Insight Providers such as Vicki Bryan, Sebastian Ashton, Hank Calenti, and Alan Greene.

“With the launching of Credit Research on Smartkarma, we address an important gap in the market in the wake of MiFID II. The changes have deeply affected credit analyst teams and redrawn the map when it comes to research costs and relationships between research providers, investors, and corporations,” says Raghav Kapoor, Smartkarma CEO and Head of Research. “This is a material step forward in our mission of becoming the dominant research destination for truly independent and unbiased cross-asset research, which spans equities, fixed income, and capital markets.”

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Media contact:

Smartkarma

Michael Tegos

Tel: +65 6715 1480

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

About Smartkarma

Smartkarma is a global investment research network that brings together independent Insight Providers, institutional investors, and corporate investor relations professionals and management. Smartkarma reinvents Equity and Credit Research by providing differentiated, independent analysis on companies, markets, and industries across the world. This includes areas under-reported by mainstream market coverage, including Event-Driven, IPOs & placements, and small/mid-cap equities. Smartkarma’s online platform enables corporate and buy-side clients to streamline their communication and data reporting, and allows them to set their own real-time alerts, customise their reading lists, directly contact Insight Providers, and remain MiFID II-compliant as unbundling regulations change the investment research industry. For more information, visit www.smartkarma.com.

Aug 14
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Smartkarma Launches Corporate Solutions to Bring Together Listed Companies, Investors, and Analysts Under a Single Network

By | Smartkarma Press Releases

An All-in-one Solution to Address All Stakeholder Needs

SINGAPORE, 14 AUGUST 2019: Smartkarma, the global investment research network, today unveiled Corporate Solutions, a brand-new range of services that bring corporates into Smartkarma’s network of independent analysts and institutional investors.

Unlike other such services, Corporate Solutions is the first to take a holistic view, creating an ecosystem where corporates, analysts, and investors can connect and interact within a single network.

This empowers C-Suite and Investor Relations (IR) personnel of companies, both listed and those coming to market. IR departments currently struggle with finding the right investors to reach out to, and maintaining lines of communication with analysts. C-level executives want to get the right message about their company out to the right people, and keep track of what investors and analysts think.

In the face of limited research coverage from sell-side analysts, regulatory changes such as MiFID II, and investor relations departments’ specific needs, Smartkarma Corporate Solutions put forward an integrated, digital-first range of services for all stakeholders involved.

Companies across the world will now be able to communicate seamlessly with analysts and investors, monitor sentiment, track industry performance, and benchmark instantly against peers. This also serves to enhance investors’ understanding of and accessibility to these companies.

To benefit from this ecosystem, users can start accessing Corporate Solutions immediately with a Smartkarma account.

Ahead of the official launch, over 70 companies have signed up to use Corporate Solutions. In addition to those, following a strategic investment in Smartkarma from Singapore Exchange (SGX), SGX-listed companies will be some of the next corporates to join the network.

“The launch of Corporate Solutions marks the end of an intensive pilot program that Smartkarma ran in partnership with SGX,” says Anisha Kundu, Head of Corporate Solutions. “We are glad to bring to the market a solution that C-Suite and Investor Relations can use to address the challenges they face. It will not only empower IR professionals but also prove to be a conduit for investors and analysts to engage with the corporates that they seek to invest in and publish research on, respectively.”

“With Corporate Solutions, we are leveraging the power of our global network to address increasingly relevant needs by corporate stakeholders, arising from regulatory change and market uncertainty,” says Raghav Kapoor, Co-Founder and CEO of Smartkarma. “This is the next step on Smartkarma’s path to building a network that powers connection and collaboration among all stakeholders – a true digital manifestation of capital markets.”

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Media contact:

Michael Tegos

Tel: +65 6715 1480

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

About Smartkarma

Smartkarma is a global investment research network that brings together independent Insight Providers, institutional investors, and corporate investor relations professionals and management. Smartkarma reinvents research by providing differentiated, independent analysis on companies, markets, and industries across the world. This includes areas under-reported by mainstream market coverage, including Event-Driven, IPOs & placements, and small/mid-cap equities. Smartkarma’s online platform enables corporate and buy-side clients to streamline their communication and data reporting, and allows them to set their own real-time alerts, customise their reading lists, directly contact Insight Providers, and remain MiFID II-compliant as unbundling regulations change the investment research industry. For more information, visit www.smartkarma.com.

Jul 09
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Smartkarma Announces Strategic Investment from SGX to Bolster Singapore’s Research and Financing Ecosystem

By | Smartkarma Press Releases

SGX is the first exchange globally to capitalise on Smartkarma’s groundbreaking solutions for corporates, analysts, and investors 

SINGAPORE, 9 JULY 2019: Smartkarma, the global investment research network, today announced it has received a strategic investment from Singapore Exchange (SGX). The investment marks the next step in ensuring a vibrant financial research ecosystem. It further underpins Singapore’s vision to serve as Asia’s centre for capital raising and enterprise financing.

Existing investors including Sequoia India and Wavemaker Partners also participated in this investment, which affirms their ongoing confidence in Smartkarma.

The strategic investment cements a joint journey of collaboration between SGX and Smartkarma. Aligning with the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) recent announcement of the Grant for Equity Markets (GEMS) to strengthen research coverage of Singapore enterprises, this is a resounding validation of what Smartkarma has been working on from day one: the reinvention of the global investment research market through technological innovation.

The deal comes at a point when Smartkarma is in the final stretch of launching Corporate Solutions globally. As Asia’s leading and most trusted multi-asset exchange, SGX was a pilot partner during the development of Corporate Solutions, a brand-new range of services for C-Suite and Investor Relations personnel of listed companies worldwide.

SGX will be the first exchange in the world to bring the power of this new global platform to all its listed and upcoming companies, as well as global bond issuers.

SGX-listed companies and bond issuers will be the first to plug into, and take advantage of, Smartkarma’s established global network of independent analysts and investors. They will get value from connecting directly to investors and analysts, and distributing pivotal updates and information to their networks quickly and efficiently.

SGX recognises the global need of corporates to connect to institutional investors and analysts. Exchanges the world over are trying to diversify their services and exploring ways to bring more value to their companies. There is a market gap there that has only widened following regulatory developments like Europe’s MiFID II legislation.

In this evolving market, Smartkarma empowers companies with its groundbreaking technology platform, establishing connections, offering unique data and analytics, and promoting high-quality independent research to improve investment decision-making. Corporate Solutions has been designed to put the issuer first, and will form a key part of the value SGX aims to bring its companies and clients.

“Shifting regulations and changes in the investment research industry are affecting all parts of the ecosystem. From the very beginning, we have been working hard to address the fundamental gaps we see around us,” says Raghav Kapoor, Co-Founder and CEO of Smartkarma.

“We are building a network that connects companies, analysts, and investors, starting from Singapore and spreading throughout the global markets. SGX shares our conviction that technological innovation is the key to navigating this new landscape, and Singapore-listed companies will be the first to experience the fruits of this labour,” he adds.

“Regulatory and market developments show that enlightened corporates can no longer rely on traditional banks and brokers to manage their listing, fundraising, and shareholder relationships,” says Jon Foster, Co-Founder and Chairman of Smartkarma. “With new technology and open networks, like Smartkarma and SGX, it is now easier than ever for corporates to eschew these closed, expensive old-boy networks and take control.”

“Research data and information are crucial to making informed investment decisions. With the advent of technology, we see tremendous potential in this innovative platform that is adding another dimension to fundamental investment research. As SGX continues to uphold the standard and availability of research coverage through initiatives such as partnering with the Monetary Authority of Singapore on GEMS, we are also investing in new models to serve investors and companies now and in the future,” says Chan Kum Kong, Head of Research and Retail, SGX.

We Are Reinventing Research Worldwide

Steadfast in our belief in the value of truly independent, unbiased research, and dedicated to fostering innovation in Singapore’s investment research ecosystem, Smartkarma will also be bringing our world-first Independent Research Accelerator, Boost Research, to Singapore. Boost Research has been operating successfully in London for the past year.

Additionally, Smartkarma will offer SGX’s institutional bond trading clients access to its platform, enabling them to access unique institutional research into corporate and sovereign bonds and fixed interest products, strengthening their bond trading activities.

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Media contact: 

Smartkarma

Michael Tegos

Tel: +65 6715 1480

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

See Smartkarma’s press kit here. 

 

About SGX

Singapore Exchange is Asia’s leading and trusted market infrastructure, operating equity, fixed income and derivatives markets to the highest regulatory standards. As Asia’s most international, multi-asset exchange, SGX provides listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services, with about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside ofSingapore. SGX is the world’s most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN and offers commodities and currency derivatives products. Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, SGX is globally recognised for its risk management and clearing capabilities. For more information, please visit www.sgx.com 

About Smartkarma

Smartkarma is a global investment research network, made up of independent Insight Providers who produce, curate, and publish unbiased intelligence for institutional investors. Smartkarma reinvents research by providing differentiated, independent analysis on companies, markets, and industries across the world. This includes areas under-reported by mainstream market coverage, including Event-Driven, IPOs & placements, and small/mid cap equities. Smartkarma’s online platform allows the buy-side to set their own real-time alerts, customise their reading lists, directly contact Insight Providers, and remain MiFID II-compliant as unbundling regulations change the investment research industry. For more information, visit www.smartkarma.com.

Apr 12
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Smartkarma and Interactive Brokers Collaborate to Deliver Independent Insight to Professional Investors

By | Smartkarma Press Releases

The global investment research network joins forces with Interactive Brokers’ online trading platform 

NEW YORK, 11 APRIL 2019: Smartkarma, a global investment research network, today announced a worldwide technology integration with Interactive Brokers, a leading online trading platform. The two companies will work together to offer an expanded range of resources to professional investors, including unbiased, independent research on listed companies, direct access to independent analysts (Insight Providers), and unique insights into Asia.

Smartkarma has built an ecosystem of Insight Providers who write about more than 3,600 companies globally, with a strong focus on fast-growing Asian and emerging markets. This makes the relationship with Interactive Brokers particularly valuable as the trading service grows rapidly in Asia.

Through this synergy with Smartkarma, Interactive Brokers’ clients gain access to Smartkarma’s single-subscription platform. This empowers them with up-to-the-minute Insights, direct communication with Insight Providers, user-determined real-time alerts, and predictive algorithms that filter Insights based on user preferences.

Interactive Brokers operates the largest electronic trading platform in the US by number of daily average revenue trades. It provides its clients with trading, risk, and portfolio management tools, as well as research facilities and investment products, positioning them to achieve superior returns on investments. The company serves more than 600,000 accounts in over 200 countries, with more than US$140 billion in client equity.

Smartkarma’s innovative model enables asset managers, investors, and analysts to be part of a worldwide network, benefiting from it and adding value to it. This complements Interactive Brokers’ trade execution and clearing services for professional and individual traders. Traders and investors can also engage Insight Providers through Smartkarma’s Premium Services to gain additional value and inform their trading strategies.

Warren Yeh, Head of Smartkarma US, notes, “Working together with Interactive Brokers, we can offer a compelling solution for their clients looking for differentiated, independent Insight on Asian markets. Our expert, in-country Insight Providers and our service offerings, from published research to calls and bespoke projects and modelling, can all support Interactive Brokers’ client base and their research needs.”

Yochai Korn, Global Head of Market Data and Research at Interactive Brokers, adds, “We are delighted to work with Smartkarma and offer our clients the independent, minute-by-minute Insight and analysis available on the Smartkarma platform. Our focus on price, speed, diversity of global products, and providing advanced trading tools aligns strongly with Smartkarma’s innovative digital platform and direct access to Insight Providers, helping our clients to make informed trading decisions.”

 

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Media contact:

Michael Tegos

Tel: +65 6715 1480

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

 

About Smartkarma

Smartkarma is a global investment research network made up of independent Insight Providers who produce, curate, and publish unbiased intelligence for institutional investors. Smartkarma reinvents research by providing differentiated, independent analysis on companies, markets, and industries across the world. This includes areas under-reported by mainstream market coverage, including Event-Driven, IPOs & placements, and small/mid cap equities, with a special focus on fast-growing Asian and emerging markets. Smartkarma’s online platform allows the buy-side to set their own real-time alerts, customise their reading lists, directly contact Insight Providers, and remain MiFID II-compliant as unbundling regulations change the investment research industry. For more information, visit www.smartkarma.com.

About Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.

Interactive Brokers Group affiliates provide automated trade execution and custody of securities, commodities and foreign exchange around the clock on over 120 markets in numerous countries and currencies, from a single IBKR Integrated Investment Account to clients worldwide. We service individual investors, hedge funds, proprietary trading groups, financial advisors and introducing brokers. Our four decades of focus on technology and automation has enabled us to equip our clients with a uniquely sophisticated platform to manage their investment portfolios at the lowest cost according to Barron’s Best Online Brokers review, February 25, 2019. We strive to provide our clients with advantageous execution prices and trading, risk and portfolio management tools, research facilities and investment products, all at low or no cost, positioning them to achieve superior returns on investments.

Aug 01
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Smartkarma partners with CorpXSasia, offering investors one-stop services for Corporate Access and independent insight for Asian markets

By | Smartkarma Press Releases

Partnership widens scope and business opportunities for insight providers on the Smartkarma platform in light of MiFID II market reform 

Singapore, London, UK 31 July 2018: Smartkarma, the largest global network for independent research on Asian markets, announces its partnership with CorpXSasia, the leading Corporate Access provider in Asia that arranges unconflicted and regulatory-compliant meetings between global institutional investors and listed corporates in Asia.

This partnership brings value to both companies’ clients by providing a more comprehensive, one-stop opportunity for both Corporate Access and valuable insights, particularly as these markets open up with the onset of MiFID II regulation. CorpXSasia’s client base of institutional investors seek to meet with corporations through Reverse Roadshows, Thematic Roadshows and NDR’s. Smartkarma can make sure these clients are better serviced in their need for critical and quality insights, whether prior to or during a Reverse Roadshow, or as part of the follow-up. Smartkarma’s cloud-based platform enables access to over 450 insight providers covering in excess of 2,400 companies across 15 Asia Pacific markets.

CorpXSasia will now be able to offer their clients direct access to insight providers as part of the Reverse or Thematic Roadshow packages they arrange for overseas investors visiting Asia. Investors on the Smartkarma platform will now have direct access to all the packages on offer from CorpXSasia.

Smartkarma believes that corporates are a key part of the research process; a goal of this collaboration is to allow insight providers on the platform to engage fully with corporates, encouraging them to develop further business opportunities. By joining forces with CorpXSasia, Smartkarma will open up new audiences and provide new revenue streams to their insight providers.

Arjen Kuenen, Founder & Managing Director of CorpXSasia, notes: “This new partnership enables CorpXSasia clients to interact directly with experts and analysts on the ground across Asia. They can now access unconflicted insights, adding unprecedented value to their Reverse Roadshow or Thematic Roadshow.”

Smartkarma co-founder Jon Foster adds, “CorpXSasia roadshows and their unrivalled network for Corporate Access across Asia align strongly with our independent research network offering. We are excited to offer expert, independent insight to their investor clients, helping them develop more effective trading strategies and understand the corporate environment in Asia.”

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Smartkarma media contact:

Chanda Shingadia

Tel: +44(0)7951163615

Email: [email protected]

About Smartkarma

Smartkarma unlocks the value of independent insight, providing investors with high-quality, unique, expert opinion on timely themes and topics across companies, industries, and markets in Asia. Insight can be customized to individual investor needs and updated in real time as investment strategies change, helping investors consolidate relevant information and stay abreast of evolving, complex financial issues. In addition to large-cap bottom-up, coverage also includes frontier markets, small and mid-caps, and in-depth event driven/IPO analysis, helping Smartkarma’s global client base generate new trade ideas.

Smartkarma saves investors and insight providers valuable time by providing new ways to create, engage with, and distribute insight with its innovative use of technology and direct access to experts through its responsive, intuitive, cloud-based platform. Its market changing business model also meets evolving regulatory requirements, such as MiFID II. For more information please visit https://www.smartkarma.com

About CorpXSasia

CorpXSasia Ltd. is the leading Corporate Access provider that arranges unconflicted and regulation compliant meetings between Institutional Investors and Listed Corporates in Asia. We organise complete and integrated Corporate Access itineraries. CorpXSasia represents the investor in booking the corporate meetings, essentially functioning as the client’s extended corporate network globally. What sets CorpXSasia apart is the provision of a bespoke, outsourced Corporate Access offering. CorpXSasia provides a last mile access that is free from contractual commitments on a ‘pay as you go’ structure, working off a unique model where the ‘initiating party pays’. This ensures that the annual cost of clients Corporate Access averages out.

CorpXSasia is a team of seasoned professionals from within the industry, having built up an extensive and unrivalled network of institutional investors and corporates in all the major financial centres globally. CorpXSasia provides a quality product through a high level of access, extensive network and experience, with the priority being based on the representation of the client. CorpXSasia is your efficient Corporate Access partner across time and language barriers. For more information please visit https://corpxsasia.com/

Jun 07
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Smartkarma to Showcase New Workflow Integration at Symphony Innovate Asia in Hong Kong

By | Smartkarma Press Releases

Repost from Symphony Press News

HONG KONG, 7 June, 2018 – Symphony Communication Services, LLC announces that its growing community of over 320 firms is using Symphony as a full workflow platform, investing resources to build customized bots, automated workflows and integrations to extend Symphony’s secure enterprise collaboration capabilities. Today, over half of Symphony’s enterprise customers operate bots within their Symphony platform. Globally, more than 500 unique bots have been developed by customers using Symphony’s open APIs since the SDK launch. Furthermore, Symphony customers plan to migrate over 2,500 existing bots from other communication platforms to Symphony in the coming months.

Many of these customer- and partner-developed workflows will be demoed live at Symphony’s flagship conference, Symphony Innovate Asia 2018, held in Hong Kong on the 7th of June. Bots and automation reduce manual processing and resolve major workflow challenges currently faced by the financial services industry such as client onboarding, post-trade management and research distribution. These bots can integrate with third-party systems like news feeds, or internal research and data sources, while maintaining the same security and compliance inherent to the Symphony platform.

“Symphony enables and represents a community of innovators – including our customers and partners – together we are building the future of enterprise collaboration,” says David Gurlé, Symphony Founder and CEO. “We are thrilled that the majority of our enterprise customers have begun to embrace the possibilities that automation, bots and workflow provide and are using our open APIs to extend our collaboration platform. We believe that this is just the beginning of truly game-changing innovations coming to the financial services industry as it implements its digital agenda.”

“Concerto – a Natixis in-house bot – is equipping Symphony with a ‘one-stop-shop’ feature by re-engineering our front office force’s daily workflow. A tool that has a real business impact leads to enhanced internal efficiency and client engagement. We are now working on developing further this solution while plugging in automation, intelligence and more,” says Emmanuel Lefort, Head of Global Markets, APAC, Natixis.

“J.P. Morgan continues to expand bot workflow innovations on Symphony across the trade life-cycle. It is enabling new workflows that deliver an enhanced client experience, automation and efficiencies. The J.P. Morgan Markets Search Bot demonstrates the ability to access the latest pre-trade content through a one-click workflow from Symphony,” says Will Quan, Executive Director, CIB – Markets Execution, J.P. Morgan.

Symphony Innovate Asia 2018 Partner Showcase

The Symphony Partner Program fosters an ecosystem of over 50 innovative companies who share a common goal of developing workflow and content applications and integrations to extend Symphony. These partners offer complementary business applications to Symphony’s platform, many of which will be showcased at Symphony Innovate Asia 2018:

Smartkarma — Smartkarma is the world’s premier research network connecting institutional investors to a community of world-leading independent research providers and a wealth of investment research. Smartkarma’s focus areas of coverage are often under-covered by traditional research providers including emerging markets, small and mid-caps, and in-depth event-driven and IPO analysis. Headquartered in Singapore, Smartkarma is Asia’s largest provider of investment research with offices in Hong Kong, London, Frankfurt and New York.

BlueFire AI — BlueFire AI is an Intelligence Company for Capital Markets. Blue Fire AI curates & distills large information sets to create intelligence edge on 75k private / public companies from over 60 countries. These insights are used by Investment Banks, Assets Managers and Intermediaries for driving sales productivity, capturing asset performance or monetizing information. Blue Fire AI combines quantitative analytics on company fundamentals and security prices with machines powered by artificial intelligence that read and understand text (unstructured data) like capital markets experts.

IHS Markit — The Markit Trade Manager integration enables buy-side users to manage trade exceptions directly from a Symphony conversation with a counterparty. Real-time collaboration integrated with MarkitSERV workflow allows trading teams to affirm transactions more efficiently, reducing operational risk and increasing operational alpha.

ipushpull — ipushpull, winner of the Symphony Innovation Award, improves workflow efficiency by allowing secure live data sharing and collaboration between Symphony and desktop applications such as Excel, databases and internal systems. By sharing data instead of sharing files, data is live and interoperable cross application while eliminating file sharing, static data, cutting & pasting and manual processes.

LamBots*— Started by a former Symphony employee, LamBots is an application and bot development agency in Singapore that has helped several financial institutions turn their productivity enhancing ideas into working bots and applications on the Symphony Platform quickly and cost-effectively.

Nikkei — Nikkei Inc. is a media organization with newspaper publishing at its core. Established in 1876, The Nikkei has become world’s largest financial paper, which has nearly three million subscribers. Also, Nikkei welcomed The Financial Times into its group in 2015. Nikkei’s multi-platform media distribution also includes online, broadcast, magazines and financial data vending services. Nikkei 225, a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, has been calculated by the Nikkei for decades.

QUICK — Since its founding in 1971, QUICK has developed an information infrastructure that supports Japan’s securities and financial markets. QUICK’s mission is to support the decision making of a wide range of customers, from securities firms and financial institutions to institutional investors, corporations and individual investors. QUICK delivers high-value-added global market information from a fair and impartial perspective. QUICK is headquartered in Tokyo, with offices in Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, London and Hong Kong.

Thomson Reuters — Thomson Reuters Eikon delivers unparalleled and easy access to trusted news, data, and analytics; instant connection to new and emerging markets, deep and varied pools of liquidity and professional networks. Eikon subscribers can now share its world leading content as part of their Symphony workflow to enhance collaboration, discover more opportunities and make crucial decisions with confidence.

About Symphony

Symphony transforms the way users communicate effectively and securely with a single workflow application. Forging a new path in the industry, Symphony is designed to help individuals, teams and organizations of all sizes improve productivity, while meeting complex data security and regulatory compliance needs. Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Stockholm, Sophia-Antipolis and London.

May 23
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Smartkarma launches Boost Research, the first grassroots accelerator to support investment analysts develop independent research businesses

By | Smartkarma Press Releases

Expert mentorship, financial support, data and office services as well as direct access to the global Smartkarma network available

London, UK 23 May 2018: Smartkarma, the leading investment research network for independent research providers, today announces the launch of Boost Research. Boost Research is the world’s first accelerator programme designed to support investment analysts who want to start independent research businesses and break the decades old sell-side research model. Boost Research aims to improve the overall supply of independent research to the market as well as increasing the variety of opinions in research to aid investment decisions and lead to better outcomes for end investors.

Just as Smartkarma has changed the nature of research production, consumption and distribution, with Boost Research it now wants to change the landscape of investment research provision, ensuring growth and improved diversity in the independent investment research space. Smartkarma wants to discover and support the entrepreneurial talent in the investment research industry, those with the drive to build a business, and offer the support and economies of scale available with their services to build a successful, sustainable business.

Recent changes in the provision of sell-side investment research, with MiFID II research unbundling and large-scale analyst lay-offs, offer opportunities to break the monopoly of the sell-side system. Many top-class analysts want to take advantage of market changes to set up on their own and the Boost Research programme de-risks the move to work independently and allows participants to grow their businesses quickly.

The Boost Research accelerator, like those in the VC industry, offers a range of subsidised office services, through to financial support, mentorship and access to regulatory cover, for entrepreneurs selected onto the programme, initially from the Smartkarma London office. Participants can also benefit from Smartkarma’s platform, providing data, publishing tools and distribution of research to their network of over 165 global buy-side institutions.

Key to the mission of Boost Research is solving the lack of differentiated voices in the investment marketplace. The Boost Research programme offers flexibility for all participants, with the ability to set their own work hours as they grow their business. Skilled providers who may otherwise be locked out of the market can join this programme and have a real opportunity to develop their business, increasing the supply of independent research to the market and offering more varied opinions to investors.

Mark Artherton, Head of Research for Boost Research, notes: “We are dedicated to growing the independent analyst landscape around the world to enhance the variety of opinion available to investors. At a time when sell-side analysts are facing an uncertain future, we are taking these skilled analysts and empowering them to build a sustainable business.”

John-Paul Smith, founder of independent research provider Ecstrat, with 34 years’ prior experience on the sell-side, adds: “At the start of my career as an independent analyst, setting up the business and focusing on things outside of the core research took up so much of my time and slowed the development of my business. Boost Research would have made my start much easier. I am now looking forward to being part of the Boost Research mentoring program and helping support the next generation of independent research providers.”

 

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Notes on the release:

Applicants to the programme need:

  • 5+ years of front office financial services experience
  • Focus on either the EU IPO market or emerging markets, such as APAC, LATAM, Eastern Europe and CIS
  • An understanding of the use of technology in research applications and an interest in differentiated delivery mechanisms
  • A desire to break with the decades old sell side system

Boost Research Ltd. is an Appointed Representative of Messels Ltd., which is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority of the UK

Smartkarma media contact:

Chanda Shingadia

Tel: +44(0)7951163615

Email: [email protected]

About Smartkarma
Smartkarma unlocks the value of independent insight, providing investors with high-quality, unique, expert opinion on timely themes and topics across companies, industries, and markets in Asia. Insight can be customized to individual investor needs and updated in real time as investment strategies change, helping investors consolidate relevant information and stay abreast of evolving, complex financial issues. In addition to large-cap bottom-up, coverage also includes frontier markets, small and mid-caps and in-depth event driven/IPO analysis, helping Smartkarma’s global client base generate new trade ideas.

Smartkarma saves investors and insight providers valuable time by providing new ways to create, engage with, and distribute insight with its innovative use of technology and direct access to experts through its responsive, intuitive platform. Its market changing business model also meets evolving regulatory requirements, such as MiFID II. For more information please visit www.smartkarma.com