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Alveo and Cognizant Collaborate on ESG Data-as-a-Service Solution
Alveo and Cognizant have collaborated to offer an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data management solution for financial services firms. The solution comprises data operations and technology services from Cognizant that will support the implementation and management of an ESG Data-as-a-Service solution from Alveo. The aim is to allow firms to operationalise ESG data, integrate...
GoldenSource Integrates ICE ESG Reference Data into its EDM Platform
Enterprise data management provider GoldenSource has begun offering clients ICE Data Service’s ESG Reference Data product integrated with its own ESG Impact offering. New York-based GoldenSource said the tie up, which is already available to customers, would help fill gaps in the global sustainability and governance data record. While ICE’s data has been offered on...
Vendor Strategy: Element 22 Joins the Fast Track Straight Out of the Blocks
Element 22’s ESG data product is among the newest in the industry. Launched in March, ESGi provides buy-side firms with a unique means of connecting directly with corporates to gain insights into their ESG credentials. It didn’t take long for this innovative approach to data gathering to attract high-profile attention. Within just a few months...
Keynote Video: Fireside Chat About Approaches for Delivering your ESG Data Strategy
In case you missed it, here was a great keynote from our speaker Suvrat Bansal, Founder of Stellar Data Labs – and former CDO at UBS Asset Management – discussing how to deliver your ESG data strategy at our recent Data Management Summit Virtual. Watch the replay here. To read in more detail about his...
BNEF to Extend Transition Risk Scores to Metal, Mining Companies
Bloomberg’s BNEF is to extend its climate transition risk scores to cover more industries, the latest addition to the data giant’s growing suite or ESG-focused offerings. The metals and mining industries will now be included in BNEF’s tool, which was launched earlier this year to cover the oil and gas sectors. The transition score service...
MayStreet Adds Full-Depth-of-Book for All US Equity Options Markets to Market Data Lake
MayStreet, the market data technology and content provider, has expanded its Market Data Lake product, adding full support for all US Equity Options data feeds, to augment the company’s existing provision of the OPRA feed. US Equity Options volumes have grown significantly in recent years, with record listed option contract volumes in 2020, increasing 52.4%...
LSEG Selects FINBOURNE Platform to Power Wealth and Investment Solutions Businesses
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has selected FINBOURNE Technology’s LUSID Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) investment data management platform to power its wealth and investment solutions businesses. LUSID will be an element of LSEG’s digital and cloud programme, and will provide a scalable and virtual real-time data repository that can consolidate multi-asset class data across the businesses. LSEG...
Relativity Addresses Email Thread Deduplication with AI Upgrade to Relativity Trace
Relativity has introduced new data cleansing capabilities integrated with its AI-powered Relativity Trace communication surveillance product. The new capabilities – which include the ability to address email thread deduplication – have been modelled to reduce false positives by up to 92%. According to Jordan Domash, General Manager of Relativity Trace, “Surveillance teams are overwhelmed by...
Pico Introduces Ultra-Low Latency Connectivity Across Key Global Venues
Trading technology, data and analytics service provider Pico has launched ultra-low latency venue connectivity across its key global trading venues, achieving more than 80 percent reduction in round trip latency, according to the company. Utilizing high-performance Layer 1 switching technology, Pico can now achieve one-way market data latency of 5-87ns and round-trip latency of 140ns...
Lack of Digital Skills and Maturity Restrict Transformation in Financial Markets
Data management functions in the finance sector, such as data collection, integration, and automation, are constrained by a severe lack of digital skills and maturity, despite leadership awareness of the importance of an effective data strategy. While a lack of skills is widely acknowledged across capital markets, a report from Encompass, a provider of automated...