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ESG Ratings and Scores May be Coming of Age
ESG credit ratings and scores for companies and financial products have come under sharp focus in the past year as the profile of sustainable finance has risen. They form core components of many financial institutions’ asset discovery and risk-mitigation strategies, offering easily digestible assessments of sustainability risks. They also underpin a multitude of indexes that...
Databricks Lakehouse for Financial Services Differentiates with an Open Source, Multi-Cloud Platform Hosting Use-Case Accelerators
Following the release of Databricks’ Lakehouse for Financial Services, Data Management Insight caught up with Junta Nakai, financial services global industry lead, to discuss the details of the open source, multi-cloud platform that includes use-case accelerators, real-time analytics, and AI, and is designed to help financial institutions modernise and innovate their approach to data. The...
ANNA Plans Implementation of Revised ISO 6166 ISIN Standard in February 2023
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) will implement the revised ISO 6166 International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) standard on 2 February 2023. The revised standard was published in February 2021 and is designed to bring additional clarity and transparency to the identification and reporting of trades through the use of international standards. Highlights of...
Suffolk Building Society Adopts TruNarrative for Financial Crime Mitigation
Suffolk Building Society has opted to start using TruNarrative’s platform for real-time financial crime decisioning and risk rating, in a move which the UK mutual says will significantly improve the efficiency and speed of onboarding new mortgage customers. Acquired by LexisNexis Risk Solutions in 2021, TruNarrative is UK based regtech which has developed a unified...
GoldenSource Integrates FactSet Truvalue Labs ESG Data into ESG Impact Product
GoldenSource has integrated FactSet content, including Truvalue Labs ESG data, into its ESG Impact product. The EDM solution provider will also be listed on the Open:FactSet Marketplace, a platform providing data applications and workflow solutions for investment professionals. GoldenSource ESG Impact is positioned to handle interlinked reference data, as well as fundamental and ESG data,...
Sustainable Trading Launches Membership Network to Drive Transformative ESG Practices in Financial Markets
Sustainable Trading has today launched a non-profit membership network to drive positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) change in financial markets, by developing industry best practices, benchmarking and transparency. ESG has become an increasingly hot topic in the financial markets sector, with firms increasingly seeking ways to embed sustainable practices within their organisations. Led by...
Exberry Launches Cloud-Native Exchange Platform
Exchange and trading technology company Exberry has launched what it claims to be the first cloud-native exchange platform to support any asset. Nebula by Exberry provides a full exchange and marketplace solution, centred around a central limit order book (CLOB) and matching engine designed to support both traditional asset classes and digital securities. The asset-agnostic...
Operational Resilience Ranks High on Regulators’ List of Concerns
Increased regulatory scrutiny of operational resilience in capital markets is forcing firms to take a more proactive approach to maintaining critical business functions. Continuity planning inevitably comes into focus during major events such as a global pandemic. But regulators’ concerns around the prevalence of other incidents – from ransomware attacks to natural disasters – have...
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...