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Institutional investors are driving a strong crypto-currency market, according to data in the latest report from Binance Research. ‘During the past three months, we saw new vigor in the crypto-currency industry,’ the report notes. ‘The total market capitalization of crypto-currencies rose from $130 bn on March 1, 2019 to almost $260 bn as of May 31, 2019, representing 100 percent growth in just three months.’ This follows earlier calls from Boston-bas...

A new US exchange – the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE) – has been approved by the SEC. Designed for high-growth tech companies with long-term prospects and investors that understand startups, the San-Francisco-based LTSE has big ambitions: to allow startups to list on the public market while focusing on research, to let long-term investors cash in on fast-growing startups and to provide the tools to support both parties.  It is arguably the second point...

Institutional investors are beginning to see the appeal of digital assets, with many looking to invest more in them over the next five years, according to new research from Fidelity Investments. The survey finds that about 22 percent of institutional investors already have some exposure to digital assets, with most investments having been made within the past three years. Four in 10 respondents say they are open to future investments in digital assets over the next ...

In 2014, 10 years after Blackbaud went public, it went big on its digital journey. Based in its new global headquarters in Charleston, South Carolina, Blackbaud’s director of investor relations Mark Furlong tells IR Magazine about how the company reinvented itself and what the future holds. How is the company leveraging its use of the cloud? We have a very tech-savvy executive team across the company that has put best-in-breed clo...