BlackRock and AccessFintech Announce Strategic Partnership to Enhance Post-Trade Connectivity and Workflows

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BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) and AccessFintech announced a strategic partnership on November 24, 2025 to integrate AccessFintech's Synergy Network with BlackRock's Aladdin platform for real-time, bilateral post-trade connectivity and workflow collaboration.

The integration targets API-first, cross-asset, multi-region visibility across securities, private markets, and derivatives, and aims to reduce fails, accelerate remediation, and provide AI-driven predictive analytics. BlackRock also made a strategic capital investment in AccessFintech; terms were not disclosed.

Positive

• 250+ capital markets and asset servicers accessible via Synergy Network
• API-first integration enabling real-time trade lifecycle visibility
• Support for securities, private markets, and derivatives workflows
• BlackRock strategic capital investment to support growth and innovation

Negative

• Investment terms not disclosed, limiting financial impact assessment
• No quantified timeline or adoption targets stated for Aladdin clients
• No disclosed revenue or cost projections to measure shareholder effect

Insights

Capital markets operations strategist

BlackRock and AccessFintech formed a partnership plus a strategic investment to connect Aladdin clients with AccessFintech's 250+ network for real-time post-trade workflows.

This links Aladdin users directly into AccessFintech's Synergy Network of 250+ capital markets and asset-servicing institutions, aiming to provide API-first, bilateral connectivity and real-time visibility across trade lifecycle events. The stated benefits include faster exception resolution, reduced fails, cross-asset data access, and AI-driven predictive analytics while keeping existing client infrastructure intact.

Key dependencies and risks center on adoption and integration scope: effective value requires broad take-up across buy-side, sell-side, custodians and agent banks and smooth technical integration into the Aladdin ecosystem. The announcement also discloses a strategic capital investment by BlackRock with undisclosed terms, which aligns incentives but leaves financial exposure and governance details unknown.

Concrete items to watch are the pace and scale of connectivity (the stated "250+" network nodes), measures of operational improvement such as reduced fails and exception resolution times, and any future disclosures of investment terms or commercial agreements; these will clarify the partnership's operational and financial impact following the Nov. 24, 2025 announcement.

NEW YORK, Nov. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) and AccessFintech (AFT), a leading data and workflow collaboration network for financial markets, today announced a strategic partnership. Through Aladdin^®, BlackRock's technology platform that unifies the investment management process, the firms will aim to deliver bilateral connectivity and real-time post-trade collaboration between the global buy-side Aladdin platform community, and the 250+ capital markets and asset servicing institutions already connected to AccessFintech's Synergy Network.

"This partnership is a major milestone in our mission to unlock capital market efficiency at scale," said Sarah Shenton, CEO of AccessFintech. "We're proud to deepen our relationship with BlackRock and bring the power of our Synergy Network to Aladdin platform clients. This integration will enable interoperable, secure, and intelligent workflow across the investment lifecycle—delivering tangible benefits to the buy-side and enhancing collaboration for brokers, custodians and agent bank participants."

A New Standard for Post-Trade Collaboration       

The integration between AccessFintech and the Aladdin platform seeks to enable secure, API-first connectivity between buy-side firms and their sell-side, asset-servicing, and market-infrastructure counterparties. Benefits for Aladdin clients include:

• Real-time visibility into trade lifecycle events and collaborate directly with brokers and custodians to resolve exceptions and reduce fails;
  
  
• Access to real-time, cross-asset, multi-region data and AI-driven predictive analytics without changing existing infrastructure;
  
  
• Accelerated remediation processes and reduce operational risk across securities, private markets (loans), and derivatives (swaps).

Sell-side participants and asset servicers gain a powerful new channel to engage with the global network of buy-side firms on the Aladdin platform, enabling faster resolution and prevention of exceptions and providing transparency for better decision-making to improve client outcomes.

"BlackRock has accelerated its strategy in partnership with AccessFintech, integrating real-time data across the post-trade and asset servicing lifecycle. This delivers more efficient workflow, greater interoperability, and improved risk management," said Michael Debevec, Head of Global Investment Operations at BlackRock. "Our partnership extends these benefits to the wider Aladdin community, helping clients achieve higher operational performance and capacity throughout the investment lifecycle with a broader ecosystem of collaborators, enhancing the client experience."

Strategic Investment to Accelerate Innovation

BlackRock has separately made a strategic capital investment in AccessFintech designed to support the company's next phase of growth, including product innovation, global expansion, and deeper ecosystem integration. The investment reflects a shared commitment to a more connected, data-driven capital markets infrastructure.

"BlackRock shares our vision for what advanced technologies can do to transform the post-trade landscape," added Shenton. "This investment will accelerate our efforts to bring to market the innovations that continue to drive alpha for our clients."

Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

About AccessFintech

AccessFintech enables secure, interoperable data sharing and enrichment across platforms, helping financial institutions collaborate more efficiently on post-trade workflows.

Our AccessFintech Synergy Networks are modern, secure collaboration networks that aggregate and synthesize multi-party data—including transactions, positions, cash, and reference data— specialized for three asset classes: Securities, Private Markets (Loans), and Derivatives (Swaps). Today, more than 250 institutions contribute over 1 billion transactions each month, creating shared insights that drive operational efficiency and risk reduction. Through interoperable integrations, AccessFintech provides visibility into post-trade processes, enabling firms to mutualize risk and make better collaborative decisions across organizational boundaries.

Beyond the Synergy Networks, clients also leverage data normalization and enrichment capabilities to consolidate internal data for critical needs such as regulatory reporting and to enable efficient API connectivity with new technologies—reducing implementation costs and complexity.

For more information, please visit accessfintech.com or follow us on LinkedIn or X.

About BlackRock

BlackRock's purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As a fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, we help millions of people build savings that serve them throughout their lives by making investing easier and more affordable. For additional information on BlackRock, please visit www.blackrock.com/corporate

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FAQ

What did BlackRock (BLK) announce on November 24, 2025 about AccessFintech?

BlackRock announced a strategic partnership and a separate strategic capital investment to integrate AccessFintech's Synergy Network with the Aladdin platform.

How many counterparties are connected via AccessFintech's Synergy Network for BLK Aladdin integration?

AccessFintech's Synergy Network connects to 250+ capital markets and asset servicing institutions.

What post-trade benefits does the BLK and AccessFintech integration promise for Aladdin clients?

It aims to provide real-time trade lifecycle visibility, exception resolution, AI-driven analytics, and faster remediation across asset types.

Does BlackRock disclose financial terms of its investment in AccessFintech (BLK)?

No; the announcement states that terms were not disclosed.

Will the AccessFintech integration with Aladdin support derivatives and private markets for BLK clients?

Yes; the integration seeks to cover securities, private markets (loans), and derivatives (swaps) workflows.