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MCO Acquires Governor Software, Adds Founder Pike to Payroll
MyComplianceOffice (MCO) has acquired Governor Software, adding the company’s visual mapping of global regulations to its lineup of regulatory data collection and work flow capabilities. Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed, but it’s understood that Governor was for sale for some time after a planned funding round never materialised due to the global Covid pandemic....
How Blockchain Can Help Reduce the Threat of Trade-Based Money Laundering
By Henry Roxas, Head of Trade Finance, R3. The amount of money laundered globally in a single year has been estimated at as much as $2 trillion. Despite billions of dollars of investment in preventative measures, financial institutions are only managing to intercept less than 0.1% of illicit funds. Evidently, money laundering is a booming...
The Increasing Importance of Data Management for Financial Firms of All Sizes
By Keith Bunnell, Global Head of Data Management Services, Bloomberg. Information has always been the lifeblood of the financial industry. A money manager with more data that provides real insights will have an edge over its competitors. That isn’t new. What is new is the amount of data and the types of data that are...
Quod Financial Signs Four New Clients, as Demand for Automation and Multi-Asset Solutions Grows
Multi-asset OMS/EMS trading technology provider Quod Financial has secured four new clients – CMC Markets in London, Kepler Chevreux in Paris, SKB Bank (Sinara) in Russia and an undisclosed major bank in Saudi Arabia – to satisfy a range of functional requirements around automated trading, across multiple asset classes. CMC Markets Connect is leveraging Quod’s...
VoxSmart Acquires GreenKey Technologies to Bolster NLP Capabilities
London-based communications surveillance specialist VoxSmart Ltd., has acquired speech recognition and natural language processing (NLP) provider GreenKey Technologies for an undisclosed sum. The deal will enable VoxSmart to strengthen its communications surveillance offering to global financial institutions, as it moves to position itself as a leader in NLP and voice analytics for financial markets. The...
Banks Concerned as BoE Climate Stress Tests Highlight ‘Data Gaps’
The UK’s biggest banks and insurers are said to have been shocked by initial results of stress tests they’ve conducted into their resilience to climate-related financial risks. Not only did they find the exercise difficult, some also found discrepancies in their findings. Now chief data officers (CDOs) have been summoned to examine whether the organisations...
Greenwashing Being Aided by Inconsistent Data, Say Experts
The growth of ESG data sources will be a powerful weapon in the battle against greenwashing, but a lack of consistency within datasets and the difficulty many companies face in providing enough intel is increasing opportunities for them to exaggerate their achievements, according to leading industry figures. Long-standing challenges such as standardisation of unstructured data...
Substantive Research Notes Strength of Start-Ups in Review of ESG Data Providers
Substantive Research, which released an ESG Provider Dashboard back in June with a view to helping asset managers compare different aspects of ESG data providers and draw up shortlists of companies that meet their needs for ESG data and analytics, has published the findings of an independent survey of the evolving ESG data provider marketplace....
Euromoney TRADEDATA Integrates EDI DerivActions to Offer Futures and Options Corporate Actions Service
Euromoney TRADEDATA has integrated Exchange Data International’s (EDI) DerivActions feed into its ViewXone service to provide a futures and options corporate actions solution. The integration extends a long-running collaboration between EDI and Euromoney TRADEDATA, and provides, according to Euromoney TRADEDATA managing director Mark Woolfenden, ‘an important part of the trade workflow that has been underserved...
EDM Council Publishes Cloud Data Management Capabilities Framework
The EDM Council has published a Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) framework that includes a comprehensive set of data management capabilities, standards and best practices for cloud, multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud implementations. It also incorporates automated key controls to protect sensitive data. The framework is available as a free license to EDM Council members and non-members,...