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Vendor Strategy: BIQH Adds Screening to ESG Data Tool Set
Screening is an effective means of ensuring financial products comprise the companies that suit a fund’s mandate. For ESG it’s been a potent tool for eliminating fossil fuel producers, tobacco companies, arms manufacturers and the gamut of businesses that are anathema to investment products built on the philosophy of doing good for humanity and the...
Data Products: Transforming Fraud Detection in Financial Services
By Suki Dhuphar, Head of EMEA, Tamr. Cybercrime assumes many shapes and forms. As a result, it’s often challenging to identify fraudulent behaviour and subsequently address it. Traditional methods frequently fail to detect and combat illicit activities, leading to financial losses and eroded trust. Yet, even today, one of the most prevalent solutions to enhance...
The Long and Winding Road to T+1 – A 20+ Year Journey
By Adrian Sharp, Principal, Fairfield Insights. What a long, strange trip it’s been. (Weir, Garcia et al, 1970) Earlier this year, the SEC published the final rules shortening the settlement cycle for US securities from T+2 to T+1 with a target compliance date of May 28, 2024. The case for a shortened settlement cycle remains...
Overbond & SS&C Eze Collaborate to Offer Seamless Bond Trading Analytics Integration
Overbond, the fixed income data, analytics and trade automation solutions provider, has partnered with SS&C Eze to make Overbond’s AI and cloud-generated fixed income trading analytics and data available through the Eze Eclipse single-page application. This will give Eze clients full access to Overbond’s AI and cloud-driven analytics, including: complete and precise aggregate bond trade real-time...
Why Traders, Risk and Compliance Need to Be On the Same Data Page
As market participants continue to look for ways to manage risk and operate effectively in an increasingly complex energy trading landscape, Stanislav Ermilov (CEO of Tallarium) explains why data harmonisation is essential for creating efficient, transparent, and compliant markets. The structure of energy trading is dramatically evolving . The industry is going through a major...
Webinar Review: How to Develop a Reporting Framework for ESG Disclosure Regulation
Financial institutions have been handed a golden opportunity to grow their business and add value for their customers from an unlikely source – ESG regulators. While banks and investors are under pressure to comply with a slew of new sustainability rules, the process is providing them with a treasure trove of data that can be...
Telehouse Partners with NPL for Precision Time-as-a-Service
Telehouse, the global data centre provider located in London’s Docklands, has partnered with the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL), to launch a new time-as-a-service offering, NPLTime Certified at Telehouse. The new service is designed to provide timing accuracy and synchronisation to businesses that require a precise, resilient and certified time signal, traceable and certified to...
Toronto-Based TMX Datalinx Opens ESG Data Hub
TMX Datalinx, Toronto-based TMX Group’s information services division, has opened an ESG data hub designed to support global clients’ integrating ESG in investment decision-making processes. As well as providing TMX Datalinx real-time and historical data, the TMX ESG Data Hub provides data from external sources including OWL, a fintech transforming how ESG data is gathered,...
J.P. Morgan Expands Fusion to Provide Cloud-Native Custody, Fund Accounting and Middle Office Data to Institutional Investors
J.P. Morgan has added securities services for institutional investors to its data mesh, enabling investors to retrieve investment data held by J.P. Morgan’s custody, fund accounting and middle office services using cloud-native channels including REST APIs, Jupyter notebooks and the Snowflake financial services data cloud. The securities services are available through Fusion by J.P. Morgan,...
Financial Services’ ESG Insights Locked in “Dark Data”: Could AI Help to Surface Them?
Dr John Bates, AI technologist and CEO of SER, explores AI’s latest potential in extracting and making sense of this wealth of ESG intelligence. In 2023, 120bn terabytes of content will be created, captured and consumed by businesses – growing by half as much again by 2025. Locked somewhere within all of that potential business...