Recent events
2025-12-15
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The December 2025 announcement that Amazon Treasury would become the first named Aladdin client on AWS — meaning Amazon's own corporate treasury runs on Aladdin hosted on Amazon's cloud infrastructure — replicates the…
2025-12-15
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Amazon Treasury is the first named adopter of Aladdin on AWS, meaning Amazon's own corporate treasury will manage its portfolio on BlackRock's Aladdin running on Amazon's own cloud infrastructure — a vertical…
2025-12-15
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The EU designated 19 ICT third-party providers as critical under DORA in December 2025. BlackRock and Aladdin were not among them. The UK CTP regime completed its first year with zero designations. No jurisdiction has…
2025-12-15
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Aladdin's cloud architecture is now multi-cloud (Microsoft Azure since April 2020, AWS since December 2025), making the dependency chain more complex: a bank depends on Aladdin, which depends on at least two cloud…
2025-06-15
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The contradiction between the established fact record's assertion that Aladdin runs on 'BlackRock-controlled infrastructure rather than third-party cloud providers' and the documented Azure partnership indicates that…
2025-06-15
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BlackRock's fiscal year 2020 Form ADV Part 2A (investment adviser brochure) has not been searched for disclosure of the Microsoft Azure partnership or the Federal Reserve contracts as conflict-of-interest items in the…
2025-06-15
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The Federal Reserve Banks of Boston, Chicago, and Dallas jointly concluded in 2025 that U.S. banking supervisors have 'limited direct visibility' into technology-focused third-party service provider activities and that…
2025-06-15
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The Federal Reserve Banks of Boston, Chicago, and Dallas jointly concluded in 2025 that U.S. banking supervisors have 'limited direct visibility' into technology-focused third-party service provider activities and that…
2025-01-15
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The European Union's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), applicable from January 2025, creates oversight authority over critical ICT third-party providers to financial firms, but the European Supervisory…
2024-06-15
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The specific list of central bank and sovereign wealth fund clients of Aladdin has never been comprehensively disclosed in BlackRock SEC filings, regulatory reports, or congressional testimony, despite the obvious…
2024-06-15
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No major regulator — SEC, Federal Reserve, FSOC, or international equivalents — has formally classified Aladdin as systemically important infrastructure or imposed disclosure or auditing requirements specific to the…
2024-06-15
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BlackRock's annual 10-K filings characterize Aladdin's revenue and client growth but do not contain operational resilience disclosures, downtime histories, or cybersecurity incident reporting comparable to what would…
2024-06-15
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Aladdin's name is an acronym for Asset, Liability, Debt and Derivative Investment Network. The system runs on BlackRock-controlled data centers and processes risk calculations for client portfolios in addition to…
2024-06-15
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Aladdin's BlackRock-controlled hosting infrastructure (rather than third-party cloud) creates a regulatory blind spot: operational resilience reporting frameworks that apply to AWS, Azure, and GCP do not capture…
2024-06-15
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Aladdin's hybrid hosting architecture (BlackRock data centers plus Microsoft Azure cloud) creates a regulatory chain of dependencies — bank to Aladdin to Azure — that no single regulatory framework captures end-to-end…
2024-06-15
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The U.K. Bank of England and FCA Critical Third Parties (CTP) regime, formalized in 2024, creates the first formal regulatory framework for designating third-party service providers as systemically important to…
2023-06-15
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Aladdin generates technology services revenue separately reported in BlackRock's financial statements. BlackRock's 'Technology services revenue' line — the segment that includes Aladdin licensing — exceeded $1.4…
2023-06-15
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The OCC's 2013 third-party risk management guidance (Bulletin 2013-29) and its 2023 interagency update establish that critical-activity vendors require enhanced bank oversight, but whether U.S. banks using Aladdin have…
2023-06-15
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Aladdin's underlying compute infrastructure includes data center capacity that BlackRock has expanded significantly in recent years. The system is hosted on BlackRock-controlled infrastructure rather than third-party…
2021-06-15
Stated positions
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Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee hearings on Federal Reserve COVID emergency facilities in 2020-2021 questioned BlackRock's role and the iShares ETF conflict but did not examine the…
2021-06-15
Transactions
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BlackRock's SEC Form ADV Part 2A for 2020-2021 likely contains no dedicated conflict-of-interest disclosure addressing the Microsoft Azure partnership as a potential conflict in BlackRock's investment advisory…
2021-06-15
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Under SEC Regulation S-K and GAAP ASC 850, related-party disclosure requirements apply to transactions with specifically defined related parties including equity investees, principal owners, and their family members…
2021-06-15
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BlackRock's Form ADV Part 2A — the investment adviser brochure filed annually with the SEC — contains dedicated conflict-of-interest disclosures that are separate from and supplementary to its 10-K disclosures, and…
2021-02-25
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BlackRock's 2020 10-K (filed February 2021) disclosed the Microsoft Azure partnership as a strategic business initiative and the Federal Reserve SMCCF/PMCCF engagement separately, with no risk factor, related-party…
2021-02-15
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BlackRock's FY2020 Form 10-K (filed February 2021) disclosed the Azure partnership as a strategic business initiative and the Federal Reserve SMCCF/PMCCF engagement separately, with no risk factor, related-party note…
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