Blackstone
About Blackstone
Blackstone is an investment firm that provides private equity, infrastructure, real estate and credit solutions to institutional and individual investors. The company manages a range of perpetual strategies and investment funds while providing strategic capital to fintech and payment service providers. Recent coverage has focused on its acquisitions in the payments sector and strategic investments in fund accounting and property market software.
FF News has published 16 stories featuring Blackstone since 2021, most recently "Aon and Blackstone Launch Cortina: A Revolutionary New Lloyd's Syndicate for Reinsurance" (9 November 2026).
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Blackstone group companies
- Hologic joint venture
- Chartis Europe Limited acquired September 2024
- Civica acquired May 2024
- Rover.com acquired February 2024
- Cvent acquired June 2023
- Copeland acquired May 2023
- Crown Resorts acquired June 2022
- IntraFi joint venture
- VFS Global acquired January 2022
- IDC acquired November 2021
- International Data Group acquired November 2021
- Ellucian joint venture
- Sphera acquired September 2021
- Ancestry acquired December 2020
- BME (Building Materials Europe) acquired October 2019
- Clarion Events acquired January 2018
- Encore acquired January 2018
- Luminor Group acquired January 2018
- Blackstone Harvest acquired October 2017
- RGIS acquired March 2007
- Priority Software acquired
- R Systems acquired
- Skroutz acquired
People at Blackstone on FF News
- Jon Gray, President and COO
- A.J. Murphy, COO, Private Equity Strategies
- Alexander Walsh, Senior Managing Director
- Aneek Mamik
- Joan Solotar, Global Head of Private Wealth
- John Fitzpatrick, Senior Managing Director
- John Stecher, Chief Technology Officer
- Rashmi Madan, Global Head of Portfolio Solutions and CEO of BXPM
Latest Blackstone news
- Aon and Blackstone Launch Cortina: A Revolutionary New Lloyd's Syndicate for Reinsurance 9 November 2026 Insurtech Eye
- Bank of America and Partners Launch $63 Billion AI Compute Financing with Broadcom 27 October 2026 Merchants Eye
- Blackstone Launches BXPM: A Single-Access Portal to Global Private Markets 24 September 2026 TradeTech Eye
- Arcesium Names Brian Rosenberg as President to Drive Global Revenue and Agentic AI Strategy 9 September 2026 TradeTech Eye
- LinqAlpha Launches AI Lab to Solve Wall Street’s Accountability Crisis and Benchmark Model Trust 20 August 2026 TradeTech Eye
- NVIDIA and Wall Street Titans Launch $500B AI Compute Financing Platform 11 August 2026
- Audax Strategic Capital Names Blackstone Veteran Ralph Yang as Managing Director and Co-Head 10 August 2026 TradeTech Eye
- LemonEdge Secures $21M Series A Led by Blackstone to Modernize Private Markets Infrastructure 29 July 2026
- OTP Bank to Acquire Luminor: A Major Shift in Baltic Banking Landscape 21 July 2026
- Clearwater Analytics Launches AI-Driven Suite to Transform Institutional Investment Workflows 4 June 2026 TradeTech Eye
- Blackstone to Acquire Majority Stake in Greek E-commerce Leader Skroutz from CVC 11 May 2026 Merchants Eye
- Blackstone Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Sony Payment Services 2 January 2024
- Redpin launches following £140m backing from Blackstone to revolutionise payments and embedded software across the international property market 15 November 2023
- Currencies Direct Announces £140 Million Strategic Investment from Blackstone 8 March 2022
- LemonEdge announces $4 million funding round led by Blackstone 3 February 2022
- Canoe Intelligence completes Series A extension funding led by its clients, Blackstone and Carlyle 10 September 2021