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Data Fabrics Bring Speed and Agility. Just Make Sure Those Seams are Secure
The increasing complexity and volume of data used by enterprises has prompted as rethink among chief data officers about how best to manage it. The needs of more individuals within an organisation to access information that was once the preserve of a handful of managers, and the switch in emphasis from systems-derived to externally sourced...
ICE to Expand Geospatial Framework for MBS ESG Assessment Globally
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is planning to expand globally a hyper-local geospatial data grid that the market services giant has begun using to provide mortgage investors with sustainability risk information. The Atlanta and New York-based company expects the tool, which can map data to spaces down to 100 metres square and can drill down to the...
VendEx Solutions Launches Vendor Gateway to Market Data Platform
Market data administration specialist VendEx Solutions has launched VLink, the latest iteration of its VendEx ecosystem, which aims to create digital connections between market data vendors and financial institutions. Following the launch of its VSource vendor services directory in June last year, VLink is the vendor gateway that enables vendors to highlight and share detailed...
Energy Firm Vitol Deploys Relativity Trace to Combat Market Abuse
Energy and commodity trading company Vitol has deployed Chicago-based Relativity’s AI-powered communication surveillance platform, Relativity Trace, to proactively detect regulatory misconduct. Relativity Trace’s alerting capabilities can help reduce false positives, with Vitol experiencing a 92% reduction on false positive alerting, according to Relativity. Vitol implemented Relativity Trace in just under four months. The system is now used...
Squirro Uses Natural Language Processing to Provide Augmented Intelligence on Unstructured Data
Meet Squirro, a Zurich, Switzerland-based provider of augmented intelligence based on unstructured data and natural language processing (NLP), and a mission ‘to deliver insanely great returns on enterprise data’ by providing customers with the right information at the right moment at the right place, automatically. The company was set up in 2012 and works across...
16 Best Data Governance Solution Providers in 2022
The principles and procedures of an organization’s data storage, handling and security make up its data governance framework. How data is input, stored, manipulated, accessed and deleted is crucial to regulatory compliance and requires the implementation of a strict data governance infrastructure. Firms must put the right people in place to support, sponsor, and steward...
Social Taxonomy Poses Data Challenges Say Experts
The European Union’s plans to create a Social Taxonomy will pose even greater data challenges than the framework created for financial institutions and companies to report on their environmental impacts. Experts warn that the lack of concrete data on issues such as diversity and modern slavery will make the process of formulating the regulation slow...
MarketAxess Selects DataBP to Automate Data Licensing and Post-Sales Processes
MarketAxess, operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed income securities and provider of market data and post-trade services for global fixed income markets, is working with DataBP, a data licensing and commercial management platform, to support and automate its data licensing and post-sales processes. DataBP says that as data consumption methods in financial services...
Real Estate ESG Intelligence Firm Deepki to Boost Data Capabilities After New Funding Round
Property data intelligence and carbon accounting company Deepki is looking to boost its data and technology capabilities after raising €150 million (US$165m) in its latest funding round. The London- and Paris-headquartered company is on the scout for acquisitions among internet-of-things (IoT) and other data-gathering technologies to help bolster its emissions monitoring and reporting service for...
What is Digital Transformation and How Do You Get it Right?
While financial institutions are grasping the opportunities offered by the digital transformation of their activities, a number of impediments are hampering some from extending the strategy to their operations teams in the back office. A stubborn corporate culture, fear of change and a lack of planning are just some of the challenges cited by industry...