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Delivering on ESG Through the Cloud
By Shaun Hurst, Principal Regulatory Advisor for EMEA, Smarsh. ESG, the acronym that refers to the alignment of environmental, social, and governance performance and objectives with company practices and investor strategies, has evolved from being a ‘nice to have’ for companies and financial institutions to a concrete expectation. But with rising regulation, litigation and growing scrutiny...
Data Challenge Poses ESG Rethink for Private Equity
Uncertainty over how ESG data should be used and reported is placing a strain on private equity investment, one of the fastest growing pools of capital going into sustainable markets. A survey by software-as-a-service data management firm Key ESG found that nine in 10 of the portfolio companies that private funds trust to manage their...
TradingTech Summit Returns to London with Focus on Digital Transformation and Innovation
The TradingTech Summit London, one of the most highly anticipated events in the financial technology industry, is back for the 12th time on 28th February at London’s Hilton Canary Wharf. The summit will bring together the leading innovators, investors, and thought leaders in trading technology to discuss the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this...
Pico Launches Test Lab to Enable Replication of Real-World Trading Environments
Pico, the technology services, software, data and analytics vendor, has launched the Pico Performance Lab, offering high-performance testing resources to financial services firms. The Lab provides customers with the ability to implement, simulate and test Pico’s full-stack trading technology solution, including infrastructure, connectivity, market data, trading software, critical timing services and Corvil Analytics. The Lab...
Crux Secures $50 Million Funding for SaaS Solution Offering Fast Access to External Data
Crux, provider of a cloud-based data integration and operations solution designed to accelerate value between internal and external data, has secured funding of $50 million in addition to previous funding led by financial sciences company Two Sigma and the Growth Equity business of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs) for a total of $175 million...
Alveo’s Latest ICE Data Integration to Help Banks as Well as Asset Managers
Alveo has expanded its ESG data integration services in one of the first moves by a data management solutions specialist to help its banking and asset management clients meet imminent new European sustainability regulations. The London-headquartered company has integrated Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) ESG company data analytics into its data management solution, called Prime. The new integration will enable Alveo customers to access the ESG characteristics...
Clausematch Releases Open-Source Knowledge Graph Framework for Regulatory Reporting
Clausematch has released an open-source digital regulatory knowledge graph aimed at providing the financial regulatory community with a framework to assess how AI and knowledge graph technologies can be applied to reporting. The idea is to encourage regulators to publish their rules and regulations in the form of structured datasets, or knowledge graphs, as with...
An Economic Era of Data Democratisation?
By Shai Popat, Managing Director, Global Head Product and Commercial Strategy, SIX. We have all heard the much used phrase ‘generational shift’. As with so many phrases that regularly feature in our industry, the phrase means different things to different people. The next generation of wealth management clients are more tech savvy than ever –...
Investment Banks Can’t Afford Not to MIND the Front Office Risk GAP
By Oliver Blower, CEO of VoxSmart. A phrase heard by so many only to be listened to by so few. “Mind the gap”, synonymous with the mundane morning commuter grind, currently takes on a far greater significance for City traders travelling to work. Not dissimilar to the cost conundrum facing the rail industry recently, when...
Audit Risk Platform Adds ESG Functions of Use to Investors
A regulatory risk assessment platform for UK-based auditors has been upgraded with ESG functions that can be used in financial institutions’ due diligence processes. RegTech provider Ideagen has made it possible for clients to isolate non-financial reporting requirements from a broader checklist of compliance expectations of companies large and small. The functionality has been created...