MackeyRMS: SaaS Management Software Aggregating Research Content

It's almost that time of year.

The 2017 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards is a competition to showcase the companies with the most impressive technology that are paving the future in financial services and capital markets.

To get you prepared for this year's awards, Benzinga will profile each fintech company that has applied. Want to get involved? Submit your company here.

For this installment, we spoke with Mackey Research Management Software founder Chris Mackey (answers have been edited for length and clarity).

MackeyRMS

What does your company do? What unique problem does it solve? MackeyRMS™ is a leading SaaS-based research management software optimized for investment professionals. Highly automated and ultra-portable, MackeyRMS works with users' existing devices and applications to seamlessly aggregate and organize both external and proprietary research content.

Mackey makes for a complete proprietary dataset by working with the most applications and devices. The platform seamlessly aggregates and organizes clients' most important information and allows them to access content through a user-intuitive interface or make it available for use in third party and internal applications via our API.

Who are your customers?

Mackey's client roster includes both domestic and international firms across the hedge fund, asset management and fund-of-fund sectors.

How long have you been in business?

We were founded in 2011.

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Where are you located?

We are headquartered in Boston.

Who is your company's leadership? What kind of experience do they have?

Is there anything else Benzinga should know about your company?

2016 was a standout year for Mackey, with clients on our RMS representing over $760 billion in AUM across the globe:

• We added clients across North America, Europe and Asia, including the addition of our first-ever customers in Singapore and Australia.
• In order to support our rapidly growing global footprint, we added local coverage in London.
• New feature: a redesign of the user interface.
• We're continuing to roll out additional enhancements for mobile iOS, a new Android App and more.

If you’re looking for cool fintech startups and access to top financial institutions, and are sick of attending stuffy corporate conferences, the Benzinga Global Fintech Awards is the event for you. From its first year in 2015, the competition grew to over 250 applicants and over 500 attendees in 2016.

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