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Vendor Strategy: Orenda Sifts Through Funny Cat Videos For ESG Data Gold
The sustainability movement that is transforming financial services was kick-started by growing public outrage at the impact of human activities on the natural world. In the days before the internet, those feelings were articulated in protests, newspaper articles, books and a huge variety of media and public pulpits. Today, that disparate global forum has coalesced...
IFPR – The UK’s New Prudential Regime: Is Your Firm Ready?
By Murray Campbell, CASS Business Consultant, AutoRek. The Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR) comes into effect in the UK on January 1, 2022, and will overhaul the prudential regulations that are currently applicable to MiFID investment firms. This will bring significant changes to the way investment firms assess their capital adequacy and monitor associated risks....
Tech Mahindra Partners Alveo to Power Data-as-a-Service Solution
Tech Mahindra is back in the capital markets data management game with the selection of Alveo’s FiDaaS solution to offer its customers financial Data-as-a-Service (DaaS). FiDaaS is a cloud-based, centralised market data platform covering pricing and reference data management, and end-to-end financial data management including data acquisition, mastering, quality management, discovery and distribution. The solution...
Bloomberg Adds Data License Content to AWS Cloud
Bloomberg has added its Data License content to the AWS cloud, giving clients cloud-native access to Bloomberg OneData, which includes reference, pricing, and regulatory data, as well as research, corporate actions and alternative data for over 50 million securities and 30 thousand fields. Bloomberg Data License clients can integrate content directly into their AWS workloads...
Tractiv Raises $2.25 Million to Build Out Tracking Solution to Aid Regulatory Data Validation
Chicago-based data usage monitoring and tracking specialist Tractiv, founded in 2020 under the name TradeX, has raised $2.25 million in seed funding to expand its engineering and sales teams. At the same time, the company has added Mark Almeida, to its board of directors. Almeida is Limited Partner Advisor at Nyca Partners – which led...
Why APIs Are Imperative for Systematic Trading
By Chris Jenkins, Managing Director, TORA. Systematic trading has long been a feature of the financial markets. Even in the days before computers arrived on the scene, early systematic traders would use rule-based systems designed to remove human emotion from the trading process, generating trading signals and entry/exit points from a range of technical analysis...
A-Team Group Names Winners of Data Management Insight Awards 2021
A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious 2021 Data Management Insight Awards. The annual awards, now in their ninth year, recognise leading providers of data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants. Award categories ranged from best data lineage solution to best data quality analysis tool, best standards solution, best corporate...
Nasdaq Partners with AWS to Build Cloud-Enabled Capital Markets Infrastructure
US exchange operator Nasdaq plans to move its North American markets to the cloud, starting with its Nasdaq MRX options market, under a multi-year partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the intention of building what it calls the next generation of cloud-enabled infrastructure for financial markets. Nasdaq’s partnership with AWS follows last year’s launch...
OneTrust Expands ESG Capabilities with Planetly Acquisition
Risk technology platform OneTrust has acquired carbon accounting startup Planetly, further expanding its ESG capabilities to help meet growing demand for climate-risk mitigation data. The American software giant will absorb the Berlin-based company, bringing Planetly’s carbon footprint management and reporting platform to 10,000 corporates from its present roster of 170 clients. Planetly Chief Commercial Officer Anna...
ESG Book Accelerates Move Towards Free Data
A movement to make ESG data freely available just took a huge step. ESG Book was launched last week by an alliance of international banks and financial institutions including HSBC, Deutsche Bank and The International Finance Corporation (IFC), offering to public view the disclosures of more than 9,000 companies. Frankfurt-based data vendor Arabesque created the...