News & Awards

This category is perennially one of the more exciting to watch, as it offers a glimpse into the future. This year, it’s FINBOURNE touting the promise of tomorrow. At the center of the vendor’s offering is LUSID, an open API-first investment platform geared toward the buy side. LUSID helps users to automate repetitive, non-value adding activities so they can focus on more complex investment strategies. It provides the ability to cut and view investment data in multiple ways, and allows for customization.

In this Waters Technology feature examining the API economy, co-founder Tom McHugh explains that FINBOURNE operates LUSID in a way that is open API-first and developer-friendly, “so that people find a lot of constructs that are difficult right now much easier to access.” (Subscription required to read the article.)

We're delighted to win Best Buy-Side Newcomer at the Buy-Side Technology Awards for LUSID, our open, API-first, developer friendly investment data platform.

In this Global Custodian feature on legacy technology, Tom McHugh, FINBOURNE co-founder is quoted discussing the reasons why the security industry is often slow to innovate: “Most of your budget is gone before you can start innovating, and most people don’t want to work that way." (Subscription required to read the article.)

A start-up aiming to streamline and automate key operational data from custodians and prime brokers has gone live with a soft launch, offering participants a free 90-day trial.

Fintech company FINBOURNE has launched the LUSID Early Access Program aimed at a wide range of investment industry players including hedge funds, custodian, small funds and multinational investment institutions. 

Information giant Thomson Reuters has announced that it will use Lusid, a cloud platform developed by London-based startup Finbourne, for client and transaction data. Thomson Reuters’ clients will use the platform to manage their portfolio and transaction data, which will incorporate Lusid’s event-based ledger system. The technology allows for a bi-temporal view of data, in which data can be viewed as it existed at any point in its history.

Thomson Reuters has teamed up with a London-based cloud technology firm to implement its investment management platform for client and transaction data.

In this Financial News article, we set out our thoughts on why close partnerships between the funds industry and well-run fintech companies will drive innovation in the asset management industry (subscription required). 

FINBOURNE Technology, based in London, launched its Liberated Unified Secure Investment Data-machine, or LUSID, earlier this month.

The ex-UBS and Nomura bankers behind Finbourne say fund managers need to free themselves from complex, legacy IT.

We were delighted to be named one of the '20 Most Influential FinTech Companies for 2019' in The Financial Technologist, chosen by a panel of experts from Barclays, EY, Lloyds Banking Group, RBC, Credit Agricole and others.