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Cboe Global Markets Selects Snowflake for Next Leg of Journey to Cloud
Cboe Global Markets is working with Snowflake to migrate its corporate data and analytics from on-premises systems to the cloud. The adoption of Snowflake’s data cloud continues Cboe’s journey to cloud and is expected to transform the company’s data and analytics infrastructure into a modern cloud architecture, bringing speed, scalability, and efficiency to its handling...
FactSet Collaborates with CID to Strengthen AI Capabilities for Clients
FactSet has teamed up with AI software specialist CID to build a joint data lake for the financial services industry. The data lake merges unstructured public web content with FactSet’s structured content sets, along with optional third-party and client content, into vast entity relationship graphs. The aim of the multi-year collaboration is to provide FactSet...
Moving from Legacy Systems to an Interoperable Future – Why Innovation is No Longer Big Bang
In this Q&A, Stephen Collie, head of sales engineering at FINBOURNE Technology, discusses the core data management challenges paralysing the buy-side today, and explores the critical role of a Modern Financial Data Stack and incremental innovation in the transition to an interoperable future. Q: Stephen, given FINBOURNE’s work with organisations across the global investment community,...
The Electronification of Credit Markets: What’s Fuelling the Uptake
By Tommaso Di Grazia, Head of Fixed Income Product Development at ION Markets. In recent years, the credit market has become increasingly complex and fragmented, making it harder for firms to find liquidity and offer customers fast and accurate services. However, simultaneously, the market has seen a growth in electronic trading; according to industry analysts...
ION Releases Compliance SaaS to Target Tier 2 / 3 Buy Sides
ION Markets is targeting Tier 2 and Tier 3 asset management firms with its new Compliance SaaS solution, which helps firms comply with regulations globally as well as internal policies governing their investment activities on behalf of clients. The new platform uses Web technologies to offer SaaS and HTML 5 delivery of the former Sentinel...
Bloomberg Makes Strategic Investment in Insightful Technology and Integrates with Soteria
Bloomberg has made a strategic investment in London-based Insightful Technology, the owners and operators of the Soteria Integrated Compliance Solution, and entered into a commercial collaboration with the company. As part of the collaboration, Soteria will be integrated with Bloomberg Compliance Solutions, which includes Bloomberg Vault among other real-time Bloomberg surveillance systems and preventative controls,...
ICE Broadens its ESG Suite With Urgentem Acquisition and Geospatial Tool
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is positioning itself as a full-service ESG data and analytics provider with two recent substantial investments. The Atlanta, Georgia-based financial infrastructure giant has bought climate risk data provider Urgentem for an undisclosed sum and unveiled its latest geospatial data offering for mortgage and other structured finance investors called ICE ESG Geo-Analyzer. The investments...
Latest MiFID Update Adds to Firms’ ESG Challenges
Manufacturers of financial products are racing to complete their first ESG disclosures under MiFID II. While the amendment to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive was announced in April last year, the fact that this latest regulation comes into force when the next iteration of Europe’s broader sustainability law is just around the corner has...
Accessing FX Liquidity in a Multi-Asset Environment
By Chris Jenkins, Managing Director at TORA Buy side firms wishing to access FX liquidity in today’s markets face a number of challenges. This is particularly true if they are managing a multi-asset fund, running strategies that include an FX component operating alongside other asset classes. The FX market is highly fragmented and comprises multiple...
It All Comes Out in the Wash: Why Clean ESG Data is Key
By Kifaya Belkaaloul, Head of Regulatory, NeoXam. As ESG investing becomes a vital offering for financial institutions, there has been a marked rise in marketing efforts of these capabilities and subsequently an increase in accusations of greenwashing. Current allegations against DWS, Deutsche Bank’s funds arm, are gaining a head of steam, demonstrated by the resignation...