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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...
Bank of England and FCA Review Joint Transformation Programme Dedicated to Data Collection
The Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have provided an update on the joint transformation programme they set up in 2021 to overhaul data collection from UK financial services firms. The aim is to improve regulation of regulated firms and ease the burden of reporting for these firms. The programme is expected to...
Banca March Selects GoldenSource for ESG Data Management and Analytics
Banca March, a Spanish investment bank and financial services company, has selected GoldenSource ESG Impact to manage data and analytics for its ESG-related investment and banking processes. As part of the bank’s data strategy, the approach to mastering and managing ESG data will be aligned with enterprise data already managed in GoldenSource tools Security Master...
Aspire and Know Your Customer Partner to Offer On-Boarding to SMEs in Southeast Asia
Singapore-based finance services provider Aspire has partnered with Know Your Customer to offer the latter’s digital onboarding capabilities to the estimated 70 million small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia. The new partnership will enhance Aspire’s ability to digitise and streamline corporate onboarding for SMEs, entrepreneurs and corporate clients using Know Your...
Solving the Multicast Challenge of Distributing Market Data in the Cloud
As cloud becomes increasingly widely adopted in the financial markets sector, one area of cloud migration that remains elusive is that of market data distribution. The key stumbling block is the fact that the industry almost exclusively relies on multicast for distributing real-time market data. Multicast is tried and tested, it works, it is well...
SFDR Seen Helping to Fill ESG Data Gaps
The European Union’s wide-ranging ESG regulation has imposed in financial institutions, huge data gathering responsibilities, many of which are a challenge to meet. But the requirements of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation are expected to actually help solve some of the challenges that currently make compliance difficult. In particular, SFDR is seen as a galvanising...
Natural Capital Asset Manager CAM Takes Data Sourcing In-House
The notion that the natural world has a capital value beyond that provided by the economic activity it supports has gained ground among investors. Consequently, a number of asset managers have emerged to service growing demand to support a natural capital and biodiversity market that’s estimated to grow 2,000 per cent in value to US$93...
Pico Secures $200 Million Investment from Golden Gate Capital
Pico, provider of technology services, software, data and analytics for the financial markets community, has signed an agreement with Golden Gate Capital, the private equity investment firm, for a $200 million strategic investment. Pico will use the capital to pursue strategic M&A opportunities, and to extend its data offering and market coverage across all regions...
TRG Screen Launches Optimize Insights to Deliver Actionable Insights on Market Data Management
TRG Screen, the enterprise subscription management solutions vendor, has launched Optimize Insights, a suite of customisable dashboards and visualisations, designed to unlock data-driven intelligence and actionable insights into market data spend and usage. The new offering, which sits at the heart of TRG Screen’s Optimize platform for market data subscription management, launched in 2020, offers...