Bloomberg has widened its coverage of municipal bonds in the US with a an ESG-focused index. the Bloomberg US Municipal Impact Index tracks local and regional dollar-denominated debt that has been categorised as green, social or sustainability securities at issuance or via an independent assurance organisation. The bonds will also feature within sub indexes for each individual category. Only tax-exempt issues that have at least a year until maturity are included.
Unstructured data accounts for a growing proportion of the information that capital markets participants are using in their day-to-day operations. Technology – especially generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) – is enabling organisations to prise crucial insights from sources – such as social media posts, news articles and sustainability and company reports – that were all but...
What a difference a year makes. At A-Team Group’s last big ESG event, in the spring of last year, delegates were still buoyant about the ESG space even after a bruising 12 months in which anti- sustainability rhetoric had risen again. Calls among conservatives in the US to backpedal on regulatory controls combined with the...
Now in its 9th year, the RegTech Summit in London will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the European capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
Corporate actions has been a popular topic of discussion over the last few months, with the DTCC’s plans for XBRL and ISO interoperability, as well as the launch of Swift’s new self-testing service for corporate actions messaging, STaQS, among others. However, it has not been a good start to the year for many of the...