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Beate Born Joins SIX as Head of Global Business Management
Beate Born has moved on from a 15 year tenure at UBS to join the financial information business of Zurich-based SIX as head of global business management. In her new role she will drive the business’s key strategic goals. Born will also play a part in extending SIX’s strength beyond home markets and into international...
UK Government Sets Development of Green Taxonomy in Motion
The UK government announced today a Green Technical Advisory Group (GTAG), which will oversee delivery of a green taxonomy that will set the bar for investments that can be defined as environmentally sustainable and tackle greenwashing. The post-Brexit UK taxonomy is likely to be similar, but not identical, to the EU taxonomy set out in...
Substantive Research Releases ESG Provider Dashboard for Buy-Side Firms
Substantive Research has released ESG Provider Dashboard, a solution designed to help asset managers compare different aspects of ESG data providers and draw up shortlists of companies that meet their needs for ESG data and analytics. The dashboard covers about 100 data providers and is expected to host towards 150 next month as it expands...
TickSmith Partners with BMLL to Help Firms Monetise Their Data, and Integrates with Snowflake’s Data Cloud
Montreal-based TickSmith has announced a collaboration with BMLL, the data and analytics company, that will enable data producers, including exchanges, trading venues and data vendors, to generate new revenue streams by creating and distributing analytics derived from their data. TickSmith’s Enterprise Data Web Store allows data-rich firms to create their own customisable data web store,...
VendEx Launches VSource Vendor Services Directory for the Market Data Industry
San Francisco-based market data management specialist VendEx Solutions has launched VSource, an interactive digital catalogue of market data vendors, products and services, containing details of more than 3,700 active vendors at launch. VSource uses a proprietary alphanumeric taxonomy, the VID (patent pending), to capture product and service information at a granular level, enabling firms to...
Hurricane Capital Advisors Selects SS&C Platform
Hurricane Capital Advisors, a New York based start-up offering a global alternative investment management platform, has deployed SS&C Technologies’ front-to-back office solution to provide fund administration, customised middle office solutions, FIX connectivity, hosting, and order and execution management systems. The firm expects to carry 10 portfolio managers on the platform by July 2021. “We wanted...
SteelEye Targets Buy Side with Three-Tiered Surveillance Suite
SteelEye has launched a three-tier suite of communications compliance capabilities aimed at addressing the regulatory obligations of any size of financial institution. SteelEye is hoping this flexibility of approach makes its record-keeping and surveillance platform more appealing to smaller buy-side players that often lack the budget or resource capability to implement extensive platform solutions. SteelEye’s...
Acin Enhances Operational Risk Control Platform
Acin has enhanced its SaaS-based operational risk control platform, adding a new Acin Score facility as well as forward-looking scenario analysis and emerging risk assessment capabilities. The enhancements seek to address financial institutions’ need for a holistic approach to operational risk to mitigate against expensive process failures, financial losses, regulatory penalties and reputational damage. The...
UOB Deploys Chronicle EFX for Electronic FX Pricing and Trading
Asian bank United Overseas Bank (UOB) has deployed Chronicle Software’s EFX solution in Singapore to power its FX pricing and trading engine. By deploying EFX and taking advantage of reduced latency via colocation connectivity, UOB aims to improve price discovery to provide customers in the ASEAN region and across its global network with access to...
Gresham Technologies Agrees to Acquire Electra Information Systems
London-based Gresham Technologies is acquiring New York-based post-trade automation specialist Electra Information Systems, in a cash deal valued at up to $38.6 million. The acquisition, which follows Gresham’s purchase of Inforalgo Information Technology last summer, will boost Gresham’s physical presence in the US, double its customer numbers to over 270, and strengthen its cloud and...