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Vendor Strategy: Acuity Knowledge Partners Braces for Growth of ESG Business
Acuity Knowledge Partners has enabled its financial services clients to achieve more than US$3 billion in savings by providing research and analytics services that has streamlined their enterprise workflows and processes. The UK-headquartered company is now rapidly expanding its operations to do the same for those clients’ ESG reporting and management obligations. The data and...
Data Quality Remains ESG Hurdle, says Buy-Side Report
ESG data quality remains the biggest hindrance to buy-side financial institutions’ sustainability programmes, according to a new survey, which found low satisfaction rates among a range of data types. Just a quarter of 30 senior executives questioned on their ESG practices by sustainability research firm Verdantix said they thought the quality of ESG data offered...
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit is Back in Town – Don’t Miss It!
A-Team Group will be live in London on Wednesday 11 May hosting its renowned Data Management Summit – and you are invited. This year’s London event will push the boundaries, with leading data practitioners, innovators and vendors covering everything from data-driven business strategy to data monetisation, perpetual KYC, data fabric, ESG data, value-added data governance,...
DTCC Names BNY Mellon Executive Frank La Salla as President and CEO
DTCC has named Francis (Frank) La Salla as president and CEO of the company with effect from 12 August 2022. He will join DTCC from BNY Mellon, where he is CEO of the bank’s issuer services business and a member of the executive committee. La Salla’s appointment is the result of long-term succession planning and...
Implementation Analysis: The Catalyst for Rapid Analytics Success in Capital Markets
By Matthew Hodgson, CEO of Mosaic Smart Data. Harnessing the data explosion has become one of the biggest challenges facing capital markets participants today. With such massive amounts of data – all sourced by different methods and stored in different locations across the institution – the challenge can sometimes feel insurmountable. The benefits that come...
Citi, State Street Join FundGuard Platform as Part of $40 Million Funding
Citi and State Street Corp. have joined existing investors in FundGuard’s $40 million Series B funding round, becoming strategic partners in the company’s bid to establish a SaaS-based investment management and asset services platform. With ‘anchor tenants’ Citi and State Street on board, FundGuard is now launching efforts to add more specialised providers of capabilities...
RegTech Insight – Cybersecurity
Pandemic restrictions are finally easing in many parts of the world. But financial institutions across the board continue to feel the effects of remote and home working on their vulnerability to cyberattack, with incidents ranging from data breaches and stolen data, to disruption to key activities like trading, settlement and payments. That’s bad news, since...
Singletrack Teams Up with Glue42 for Embedded Sell-Side CRM and Analytics
Singletrack has partnered with interoperability specialist Glue42 to integrate its client engagement and analytics platform into Glue42’s desktop integration platform. Through the initiative, which makes use of the FDC3 integration standard, Singletrack is seeking to offer hyper-personalised experiences to its sell-side clients. “As a company, we have been tracking the FDC3 standard for a while...
Valantic FSA Completes Strategic Investment in Low-Code Platform Provider Velox
Electronic trading and automation solutions provider valantic FSA, has completed a strategic investment in low-code development fintech Velox Financial Technology, to complement and bring further flexibility to its electronic trading business. The terms of the investment have not been disclosed, although valantic says it is “significant” and that it will allow the company to bring...
Bloomberg, MSCI Launch First in Range of Climate-Transition ESG Indices
Data giants Bloomberg and MSCI plan to offer investors a suite of climate-themed fixed-income indices following the unveiling this week of the first batch of gauges designed to offer transparency into corporate net-zero transitions. The companies’ joint Climate Benchmark offering combines MSCI Climate data and analyses with Bloomberg’s fixed-income indices, providing assessments of corporate bond...