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Redwheel Extends Rimes Partnership with Integration of Matrix Investment Management Platform
Redwheel, an active investment manager and existing Rimes client for benchmark data services, has extended the relationship to include Rimes’ Matrix investment management platform. The platform will replace legacy data warehouse technology and help Redwheel establish a robust investment data intelligence function and systematic data management foundation. Within the extended partnership, Rimes will address Redwheel’s...
CFAI Teaches Finance Professionals Nuts and Bolts of ESG Analysis
The issuers of a world-renowned accreditation for financial analysts said that demand for specific expertise in sustainable investing is growing despite recent criticism of ESG. The CFA Institute (CFAI), which issues charters that are recognised as a mark of financial analytical proficiency the world over, is offering a certificate in sustainable finance. It will teach...
interop.io – Building Ecosystems of Interoperable Applications
Last week, interoperability provider interop.io announced their collaboration with Infront, the European financial market data solutions provider, to enhance the front office trading platform for Deutsche Numis, by integrating their core Fidessa platform with Infront’s retail service provider quotation (RSP) solution. This is a great example of interoperability in action, as discussed in depth during...
Solidatus Joins AWS Marketplace
Solidatus has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace to bring connected data governance to AWS customers. With integrations to AWS services such as S3 and Redshift, and partnerships and integrations with data management vendors including Collibra, Snowflake, Alteryx, Google BigQuery, BigID, Denodo, Informatica, Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM Redhat, Solidatus can deliver an integrated data...
Asset Managers Identify Top Data Management Challenge as Eliminating Errors
Market volatility, rising interest rates, and fee and margin compression are causing decision makers at asset management firms to call for improvements in data management to better inform investment decisions and address the needs of regulatory compliance, risk management and client engagement. According to research commissioned by InterSystems, a data technology provider, the top data...
Are Firms Prepared for Wave of Messaging Fines Headed for Britain?
By Oliver Blower, CEO of VoxSmart. The last few years have seen market regulators dole out record numbers of fines to financial institutions over their failure to adequately monitor employee communications on instant messaging applications like WhatsApp. According to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement division chief Gurbir Grewal, the regulator has filed charges against...
TMX Group Unveils Two New Order Books to Democratise Speed and Improved Execution Quality
TMX Group has introduced two new equities order books on its Alpha trading platform, Alpha-X and Alpha DRK, in a move that aims to democratise speed of access and improve execution quality for natural order flow on the Canadian market. The launch of the two new order books promises a more optimised trading environment that...
Apex Group to Help Private Markets With MJ Hudson ESG Purchase
Apex Group will harness the ESG data and advisory firepower of its recent acquisition to capitalise on an expected surge in reported sustainability data in its services to private markets, which account for at least a third of financial institutions’ investments. The investor services company’s purchase of MJ Hudson’s ESG software and advisory team boosts...
Iceberg Data Labs Confident its Model is Filling ESG Gaps
There’s no doubting Matthieu Maurin’s confidence in his company’s ESG data model. The founder and chief executive of Iceberg Data Labs, a fast-growing ESG data start-up that has netted clients such as Euronext, Aviva and HSBC in just four years of operations says it is solving for a range of challenges that keep chief data...
Bloomberg Collaboration with Google Cloud Increases Access to Data And Analytics
Bloomberg continues to invest in cloud data access with an offering that enables customers of Google Cloud to accelerate their data strategies through the integration of Bloomberg’s cloud-based data management solution, Data License Plus (DL+), with BigQuery, Google Cloud’s fully managed, serverless data warehouse. The collaboration also allows mutual customers to access Bloomberg Data License...