Technology

BlackRock Inc (BLK.N), the world's largest asset manager is acquiring a San Francisco-based robo-advisor, FutureAdvisor, the firm announced Wednesday morning...

It depends. | Sergey_P/iStock/Thinkstock Over the last few days, top portfolio managers and financial advisors have declared the recent volatility a good buying opportunity. But investors aren’t as sure, according to a recent poll by Eaton...

With the proliferation of digital technology in financial services, some fear the industry features a disruption as profound as online shopping had on the retail market...

Financial Services Cloud aims to combine tools such as calendar notifications, portfolio rebalancing, financial planning and client communication into a single, cloud-based portal

Contrary to doomsday scenarios, Betterment and Wealthfront say recent market volatility isn't a death sentence for their business. 

LPL Financial announced this week that it hired Anthony Perkins, the former chief technology officer of Wells Fargo Advisors, to fill the new role of executive vice president of technology product development...

At a social media for financial services conference in San Francisco, Hearsay Social announced a new model designed to help firms grow their business through social media. The Social Business Maturity Model is a quantitative metric companies c...

David McNew/iStock/Thinkstock It may be the dream of every Silicon Valley entrepreneur to turn his or her app into a multi-million dollar company, but that dream can quickly turn into a nightmare for coders without a financial background...

NextShares, the actively managed funds that look like exchange-traded funds, are one step closer to market thanks to a new distribution partner. ...

According to new data from Corporate Insight, online financial advisors increased their total assets under management by 11 percent in the first six months of 2015 to a total of $21 billion, even as markets remained relatively flat. Assets are up...