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Powering the Future: The Transformation of Renewable Energy Trading through Technology
In a world seeking effective climate action, the spotlight is increasingly focusing on renewable energy. However, within financial markets, the trading of instruments such as biofuels, voluntary carbon credits and power purchase agreements remains complex and opaque. Advances in technology can lead to more automation, standardisation and transparency, but questions remain. How do we ensure...
Moody’s and Microsoft Partner on Next-Gen Solutions Including Generative AI
Strategic Partnership for Next-Gen Solutions Built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Teams and Moody’s Proprietary Data to Empower Financial Services, Capital Markets and More Moody’s and Microsoft have made a strategic partnership to co-create next-generation data, analytics, research, collaboration and risk solutions for financial services. The solutions will be built by...
Informatica Wades into Privacy Segment with Privitar Acquisition
Informatica’s agreed purchase of privacy specialist Privitar signals its intent to extend the data access management, privacy and governance capabilities integrated in its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). Privitar was founded in 2014 to help organisations address issues raised by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other privacy-related rules and guidelines. Today, Privitar...
Bloomberg Extends Access to Cloud Data with DL+ Snowflake Native App
Bloomberg has released a Data License Plus (DL+) Snowflake native app that will allow mutual customers to provision Bloomberg Data License subscriptions in the Snowflake data cloud and configure a ready-to-use environment that is hydrated with modelled Bloomberg data and multi-vendor ESG content in minutes. DL+ is Bloomberg’s cloud-based data management solution that aggregates, organises...
DSB Publishes Final Report on 2023 Industry Consultation Covering ISIN and CFI
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has published its 2023 industry consultation final report covering 2024 service provision of the OTC International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) and Classification Financial Instrument code (CFI). The report summarises feedback on the introduction of a security operations centre and provides insight into industry perspectives on the implementation of a revised...
ISSB Rules Hailed for Bringing Data Clarity, Comparability
The first fruits of the International Sustainability Standards Board’s (ISSB’s) 18 months of work hammering out a set reporting rules that could be applied globally has been welcomed by participants in the financial data and technology industries. The body’s first two sets of disclosure standards, described as “ground-breaking” by the board’s chair Emmanuel Faber, have...
Finastra, Green RWA Launch Free-to-Use Climate Risk Tool in Development Sandbox
Finastra has lent its FinTech expertise and capabilities to an initiative that’s building a model to help banks boost their resilience to climate risks. The London-based company has devised an interface that enables financial institutions, regulators and the public to access the Climate-Extended Risk Model (CERM) risk framework. Users, by their participation, also contribute ideas...
Adaptive’s Aeron Premium Technology Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace
Adaptive Financial Consulting (Adaptive), the electronic trading technology solutions provider, has announced that its Aeron Premium technology is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace. This follows last October’s announcement of Adaptive’s partnership with Google Cloud, and the subsequent launch of Aeron Premium, which augments the popular Aeron open source platform with additional features, enterprise-grade...
Snowflake and NVIDIA Offer Capability to Build Customised Generative AI Applications
Snowflake and NVIDIA have partnered to allow businesses to build customised generative AI applications using their own proprietary data within the Snowflake Data Cloud. The partnership is based on NVIDIA’s NeMo platform for developing large language models (LLMs) and GPU-accelerated computing and will enable enterprises to use data in their Snowflake accounts to build custom...
Datactics Makes Data Assets More Valuable with Renewed Augmented Data Quality Solution
Datactics has released the first phase of its renewed Augmented Data Quality (ADQ) solution including an enhanced user interface and a host of new and improved machine learning (ML) microservices to automate data quality activities. The solution also eliminates time and the need for technical knowledge when addressing data quality issues by democratising data quality...