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IOSCO Report Shows Data Regulations are Just Around the Corner
Growing calls for ESG data and ratings provisions to be brought under the watch of regulators around the world is likely to result in a swell of legislation in the next year or so, vendors told ESG Insight. After a global grouping of financial watchdogs recommended that ESG data products and services be included in...
The View From Space: QuantCube Harnesses Satellite Data to Build Environmental Intelligence Tools
Alternative data vendor QuantCube has created a slew of environmental intelligence products using satellite data sourced from the European Space Agency combined with other alternative data sources. As well as creating four environmental and social economic indicator services, the Paris-based company has also incorporated the new information into its benchmarking and analytical overlays. The offerings...
Altada Opens London Office to Meet Local Demand for AI Solutions for Asset Management
Altada Technology Solutions, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions supporting improved data-driven decision making in the asset management community, is expanding on a global basis with the addition of a London office. Through 2021, the company has added offices in New York, San Francisco, Malta, Dublin and Barcelona. Altada was founded in 2018 in Cork,...
Optimising Sustainable Investment Processes – How Asset Managers Can Best Prepare
By Martijn Groot, vice president, Marketing and Strategy, Alveo. Investment strategies are increasingly being driven by environmental social and governance (ESG) criteria and considerations, and ESG investment is growing rapidly. Research from Bloomberg found that assets invested according to ESG criteria are on track to exceed $53 trillion by 2025, representing more than a third...
There’s More To A-Team Than Meets the Eye – Check Out Our Shiny New Website to Find Out More
Here at A-Team Group HQ, we’ve spent a lot of the global pandemic tracking and supporting the capital markets technology industry as it has grappled with the operational hurdles Covid-19 threw in their path. But we have also been working behind the scenes to launch a new website for our marketing clients to better reflect...
Aztec Group Adds Fenergo CLM to Technology Stack on Route to Digital Transformation
Aztec Group, a specialist in alternative asset classes, has selected Fenergo’s cloud-native Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) client lifecycle management (CLM) to digitalise client and investor journeys. The solution will replace legacy systems and existing processes for client onboarding and compliance, enabling Aztec Group to onboard investors faster while improving the user, client and investor experience. The company...
SFDR: Dilemma of Shakespearean Proportions Looms Amid Scope Three Preparations
This article first appeared on A-Team Group’s ESG Insight channel. Financial institutions putting compliance processes in place for the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations may be reminded of Claudius’ dilemma in Hamlet. “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions,” the usurper king bemoans as he contemplates an avalanche of challenges...
RepRisk Opens up its Methodology to Inspire ESG Transparency
RepRisk’s publication of the methodology behind its ESG data is hoped to encourage competitors to follow suit and bring greater transparency to the sustainable investment space. The Zurich-based data vendor made the plumbing behind its services available on its website in the past week. Now available to the public are its Jupyter notebooks, which can...
SmartTrade Adds to FX Capabilities with Purchase of TickTrade
French trading software company smartTrade has acquired Toronto-based TickTrade, a specialist in foreign exchange trading and payments technology. The transaction is aimed at positioning smartTrade to offer comprehensive solutions for the FX marketplace globally. SmartTrade already offers electronic trading and liquidity management solutions for firms trading in FX, fixed-income and other asset classes. TickTrade’s focus...
State Street Alpha Expands Index and Benchmark Services Through Partnership with RIMES
State Street’s recent addition of a strategic partnership with RIMES will help clients meet increasingly complex index requirements and provide a solution that aggregates indexes and benchmarks across multiple providers. The partnership, which is with State Street Alpha, an integrated front-to-back office platform that combines Charles River Development (CRD), middle-office processing, data and back-office services,...