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S&P Sustainable1 Physical Risk Scores Offer Social Impact Window
E, S and G is generally regarded in aggregation, but data products and services usually measure each individually. S&P Global Sustainable1 business, however, believes the geolocated company and climate data combined in its new physical risks metrics are providing a means of measuring the conjunction of the first two of ESG’s pillars. The global rating...
Confluence of Historical Trends Puts APAC at Centre of the RegTech Scene
Confirmation of a concept’s validity can come in the most banal of ways. For Claus Cristensen, founder and chief executive of Dublin-based RegTech provider Know Your Customer, such a moment came during a business lunch with colleagues in Shanghai, China. When it came to paying the bill, Christensen reached for his wallet but his locally...
Vendor Strategy: ISS Translates Governance Data into Action
Of the three pillars of ESG, the third is often considered the most difficult to influence or change, even when informed with the most accurate data. Purpose-driven investors may not always have the time, resources or voting power to formulate an action plan that will enable them to carefully examine whether a constituent of its...
FCA Proposes Tough Anti-Greenwashing Rules for UK
The UK’s financial regulator has issued its toughest set of proposals yet to crack down on greenwashing. The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) proposed Sustainable Disclosures Requirements contains a list of measures, including rules on labelling of green financial products and restrictions on the language that can be used to describe green investment instruments, that it...
Colt Completes Proof of Concept for Multicast Data in the Cloud
In a further indication of the industry’s interest in finding ways to utilise the cloud for distribution of market data, connectivity and colocation provider Colt Technology Services has announced the successful completion of a cloud colocation Proof of Concept (PoC), demonstrating the viability of hosting and distributing multicast data in the cloud. According to the...
Bloomberg Employs ML and Industry-Implied Models to Increase Carbon Emissions Data
Bloomberg has increased its carbon emissions dataset to cover 100,000 companies. The dataset consists of company reported carbon data and estimates based on either a machine learning smart model or Bloomberg’s newly developed industry-implied model accompanied by a Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) reliability score. “Greater precision in Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon...
Ataccama Upgrades Data Catalog, Adds Data Observability, Offers Data Quality for Snowflake in Latest Release of Ataccama ONE Platform
Ataccama, provider of a unified data management platform, has released early access to version 14 of its Ataccama ONE platform. At the heart of the release is an upgraded data catalog with greater capabilities for collaboration, compliance and data activation, as well as a new data observability module built for enterprise use. The release also...
ION Launches Post Trade Solution, XTP Spark
ION, the trading, analytics, treasury, and risk management solutions vendor, has launched XTP Spark, a trade processing solution for cleared derivatives. Using the same technology as ION’s flagship XTP solution, XTP Spark is aimed squarely at smaller firms such as regional banks and brokers, commodity trading firms and niche clearers who require similar back-office functionality,...
PRA Package of Regulatory and Data Strategy Change Planned for Completion by 2026
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), which regulates and supervises financial services firms as part of the Bank of England, is planning to complete its RegTech and data integration strategy by 2026, bringing in a package of change including a new ‘look and feel’ to regulation, and refinements to what data is collected, how it is...
Fenergo Perpetual KYC Service Offers Operational Efficiencies, Reduced Costs and Risk
Fenergo has joined early providers of perpetual KYC services with Smart Review, a solution designed to enable financial institutions to streamline periodic KYC review processes and reduce costs through automation. Smart Review automates the continuous monitoring of client profiles for KYC compliance by identifying all changes to relevant entity data, transactions and anti-money laundering (AML)...