A template for companies to submit their ESG disclosures to private and alternative investors has been launched. The ESG Integrated Disclosure Project (ESG IDP) template aims to promote “greater harmonisation and consistency of disclosure of key ESG indicators by borrowers in private credit and syndicated loan transactions”.
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...
Since its acquisition of Morningstar’s commodity information business late last year, energy industry intelligence provider Zema Global has become an important data feed for financial institutions that invest in the net-zero transition and to those trading in renewables, biofuels and fossil fuels. The transaction was a prescient one. While the Colorado, US-headquartered company has been...
Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now...