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Bloomberg ESG Tool Assesses Potential Impact of Company Business on UN SDGs
Bloomberg has launched a tool that investors can use to assess the potential impact of a company’s business on any of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is a response to increasing demand for objective SDG-related data and provides data mapping and materiality assessment to offer more clarity to investors seeking to...
Regnology, Moody’s Analytics Join Forces for Risk/Reg Reporting Solution
Regnology has teamed with Moody’s Analytics to launch an end-to-end risk and regulatory reporting solution in select global markets. The collaboration brings together Regnology’s expertise in regulatory reporting with Moody’s Analytics’ integrated risk assessment capabilities. The combined solution offers data modelling, best-in-class calculation capabilities, extensive risk coverage and advanced analytics to achieve regulatory reporting excellence...
FCA Criticism of Funds’ SDR Approach Stirs Controversy
The UK regulator has criticised fund managers for failing to abide by interim guidance on ESG disclosures just days before it’s expected to announce details of a formal regulation. But the comments have been met with frustration and caution within the ESG data and technology community, with one practitioner arguing that the Financial Conduct Authority...
Avelacom Launches Lowest Latency Fibre Route Between Tokyo and Seoul
Avelacom, a specialist in ultra-low latency networks and IT infrastructure, has announced the introduction of a new fibre route connecting Tokyo and Seoul, marking a significant achievement in Avelacom’s expansion within North Asia following the opening of its Hong Kong office earlier this year. According to the company, its new route offers the lowest latency...
Data Benefit of CSDDD at Risk as FIs Seek Exclusion, Experts Warn
The anticipated exclusion of financial companies from the EU’s sustainability due diligence law has stung ESG professionals, with some arguing that an opportunity to improve data quality would be missed. The EU’s executive body, the European Commission (EC), is reportedly ready to cede to requests from parts of the financial sector to be left out...
SIX Bot Automates Corporate Actions Queries
SIX has released an automated software application called SIX Bot that is based on the company’s corporate actions data and allows financial markets professionals to ask intuitive questions relating to corporate actions events. The application provides the latest information on more than 70 corporate action event types to over 600,000 financial market professionals on Symphony,...
FinClear Adopts Eventus’ Validus Platform for Enhanced Trade Surveillance and Monitoring
FinClear, Australia’s leading full-service infrastructure provider for financial markets and provider of trade execution and third-party clearing services, has deployed the Validus platform from Eventus for trade surveillance and post-trade monitoring. This strategic move is aimed at bolstering FinClear’s capabilities in overseeing one in two retail transactions in Australia and managing over AU$360 billion in...
Pensions Insurance Corporation Selects FINBOURNE Cloud-Native Data Management Platform
Following a market review, Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has chosen FINBOURNE Technology to provide investment data management capabilities that will help drive its data strategy. PIC, a specialist UK pension insurer, manages a portfolio of about £45 billion and provides guaranteed pensions to over 300,000 people in the UK. It will use FINBOURNE’s cloud-native financial...
Bloomberg Escalates Collaboration to Extend Customer Access to Cloud Data
Bloomberg continues to invest in the cloud and meet its mission of providing efficient access to data in the cloud through a collaboration with Databricks, a data and AI company, that allows mutual customers to access Bloomberg’s data offerings using Data License and its cloud-based data management solution Data License Plus (DL+). Databricks, Google Cloud...
A-Team Group Announces Winners of RegTech Insight Awards – USA 2023
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its RegTech Insight Awards – USA 2023. The awards celebrate vendors of leading RegTech solutions, services and consultancy, and are designed to recognise both start-up and established providers offering creative solutions to regulatory challenges. The awards were presented by Andrew Delaney, President & Chief Content Officer at A-Team...