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Relaxing ESG Capital Rules is No Good if Data Costs Skyrocket
By Alexander Dorfmann, senior product manager at SIX. Ever get the feeling that the surging interest in ESG poses more complex questions than straightforward answers for financial institutions? An interesting sub-plot to the revised Basel III agreement, now pushed out until 2025 due to the pandemic, is that rule makers will have new powers to...
TickSmith Waiting to Pounce on ESG Opportunities
First-mover advantage may be a concept that will take a long time to prove in ESG data. The fragmented and fast-changing nature of the industry means the early adopters are still waiting to see if their speed out of the blocks has positioned them well for the future. Data marketplace platform TickSmith is keeping a...
Now it’s Personal: ESG is More than a Business for Plan A Chief
For Plan A co-founder and Chief Executive Lubomila Jordanova, ESG is a personal mission. The former investment banker said she experienced something akin to an epiphany in 2016 that set her on the path to creating her carbon and ESG accounting startup. Now, five years after setting up Berlin-based Plan A, Jordanova is seeing her...
Video: Duncan Higgins on how to Become a Leader in Sustainable Trading
Duncan Higgins, founder of Sustainable Trading, explains why ESG is the hottest topic in trading technology today, how to become a leader in this emerging market, and why he’s looking forward to taking part in a keynote fireside chat at next week’s A-Team Group TradingTech Summit London. Higgins will be talking to Irina Sonich Bright,...
LedgerEdge and Charles River Collaborate to Provide DLT-Enabled Corporate Bond Liquidity
LedgerEdge, a corporate bond trading platform built on distributed ledger technology (DLT), has joined forces with Charles River Development (CRD), to provide investment firms with access to liquidity from LedgerEdge’s ecosystem via CRD’s Inventory Hub and OEMS. The partnership enables CRD’s Inventory Hub to deliver an aggregated view of corporate bond liquidity, with the aim...
Adaptive Acquires Real Logic; Thompson and Montgomery Join Management Team
Electronic trading consultancy Adaptive Financial Consulting has acquired Real Logic, a low-latency trading technology development firm founded by high-performance computing specialist Martin Thompson, who will be joining Adaptive’s management team as Head of Platform. Prior to setting up Real Logic in 2011, Thompson was CTO of financial exchange LMAX, and is seen as one of...
Adaptive Joins TradingTech Summit London to Discuss the Changing Reality of Technical Innovation
Adaptive, a provider of trading technology solutions based on the latest technologies and techniques, and a platinum sponsor of next week’s A-Team Group TradingTech Summit London, is pushing the boundaries to reduce the overall cost of innovation and delivery of novel capital markets products. Ahead of the event, we talked to Adaptive CEO and co-founder...
Pico Launches Corvil Electronic Trading Data Warehouse for Real-Time Execution Analytics
Trading technology and infrastructure specialist Pico has launched the Corvil Electronic Trading Data Warehouse, which aims to provide visibility into transaction execution quality to correlate client trading behaviour with execution path and counterparty performance. The solution, offered as a standalone software product, streams nanosecond-timestamped data from Corvil network instrumentation, to deliver real-time visibility at a...
ActiveNav Discusses How to Eliminate ROT and Find Value in Unstructured Sensitive Data
Sensitive data is a sensitive subject. When it is breached, fallout for the firm involved spans from reputational damage to a dent in revenue. In worst case scenarios, small companies may not be able to recover. For large financial institutions, a breach of unstructured sensitive data can be a huge reputational and financial blow as...
Luxoft Outlines Challenges and Opportunities of Modernisation it Will Present at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London
With less than a week to go before A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London and a buzz building about the event’s sessions and speakers, we talked to James Wilson, Sales Director, Banking and Capital Markets, at Luxoft, one of the Summit’s platinum sponsors. Wilson highlights the challenges faced by the trading technology community, solutions to these...