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Data Quality and Management Crucial to Effective ESG Analysis
Analytics are helping financial institutes mine crucial insights from ESG data that’s helping to guide their decision-making processes. Analyses that can surface investment and hedging strategies, shape risk positioning and streamline regulatory compliance all work best when those datasets are properly managed. But ingesting information and making it useable remains a fundamental challenge, especially because...
As Biodiversity Climbs the ESG Agenda, ISS Unveils Nature-Linked Products
Institutional Shareholder Services’ (ISS) has launched a suite of nature- and natural resources-linked products as biodiversity protection and risk mitigation rise in prominence on among investor concerns. ISS ESG’s Biodiversity Impact Assessment Tool and the latest addition to its ESG indices, the Freshwater Index Series, are intended to give financial institutions better visibility into the...
Exchange Data International Releases Readable Corporate Action Notices
Exchange Data International (EDI) has released Readable Corporate Action Notices (RCAN), a solution designed to enable personnel in front- and middle-office buy-side firms to read corporate action notices in the same way as they read news. RCAN is based on machine learning and was developed by EDI. It covers 45 corporate events, including dividends, mergers...
How to Get Ahead on the Data Governance Journey
Data governance that delivers benefits to the business needs to pull together people, process and technology by embracing data ownership, managing metadata, ensuring data quality, and continually improving automation. These are just some of the guidelines for successful data governance set out by a panel of experts at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in...
Push Technology Rebrands as DiffusionData and Sets Out Market Alignment Strategy
DiffusionData, formerly known as Push Technology, a pioneer in real-time data streaming and messaging solutions, today announced the final details of the company’s business realignment strategy and launched its new name and brand. The company’s stated mission under the new branding of DiffusionData is to manage and reduce the costs of data consumption, transformation and...
Tradeweb & S&P Global Market Intelligence Collaborate to Link Up European Primary & Secondary Bond Markets
Tradeweb, the electronic marketplace operator, has collaborated with S&P Global Market Intelligence, the financial information services provider, to introduce electronic connectivity between primary and secondary markets for European credit, covered, sovereign, supranational and agency (SSA) bonds. With the integration of InvestorAccess, S&P Global Market Intelligence’s digital primary market platform, Tradeweb clients will now be able...
Buy to Build: How Providers Help Make Unique Trade Surveillance Systems Possible
By Ollie Cadman, Chief Product Officer, Eventus. “Buy versus Build” was a dilemma that financial institutions traditionally faced when working to create modern surveillance systems or other key elements in the risk technology stack. What groups were trying to figure out was whether purchasing products and services was more cost-effective and future-proofed than building a...
Depicting Crypto’s Data Dilemma Before the Next Winter Cold Bites
By Berta Ares Lombán, Head of Digital Assets Financial Information at SIX. The crypto winter, when a basket of leading cryptocurrencies lost around $1.9 trillion in value, put a much-needed spotlight on the long-term future of digital assets. While this is not the first time cryptocurrencies have seen significant adjustments to their valuations, the fallout...
Russell Investments Selects ACA’s ARRMA Service to Improve Regulatory Reporting
Russell Investments has selected ACA Group’s Regulatory Reporting Monitoring and Assurance (ARRMA) service to manage its transaction reporting arrangements. The deal covers EMIR reporting and adds to ACA’s provision of MiFIR assurance reviews for Russell Investments since May 2021. The service combines technology and consulting, and will help the investment firm identify and remediate transaction...
ACA to Give Clients ‘Deep ESG Data Relationship’ With Ethos Acquisition
US-based compliance adviser to global asset managers ACA Group believes it can provide its clients with the critical ingredient they need to establish their ESG programmes – a deep understanding and relationship with sustainability data. The New York-headquartered company has acquired data specialist Ethos ESG, which provides data and ratings across the sustainability spectrum. Ethos’...