A-Team Insight Author: A-Team
ESG Standards and Taxonomies Remain in Flux, But Order is on the Horizon
The ways in which financial institutions receive the data they need to fulfil their ESG targets is determined largely by the regulations that cover its disclosure and dissemination. This year will be an important one in this respect; changes to existing regulations, and the taxonomies on which they are based, are due to be introduced,...
Informatica’s Intent to Acquire Privitar Extends Data Access, Privacy and Governance Capabilities of Cloud Platform
Informatica is planning to extend the data access management, privacy and governance capabilities integrated in its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) following disclosure of its intent to acquire Privitar. Privitar was founded in London in 2014 with a mission to help data-driven organisations address data privacy concerns and comply with legislation such as General Data...
MCO Acquires Fairwords E-Comms Surveillance Platform
Conduct risk and compliance technology provider MyComplianceOffice Inc. (MCO) has acquired Fairwords, developer of AI-powered electronic communications software that captures digital communications while proactively enforcing policy. Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed. Fairwords’ communications compliance software provides proactive training, analytics, and archiving to mitigate communications risks and prevent compliance crises and lawsuits. Using the system,...
ACA Addresses Compliance Talent Shortage with New Performance Measurement Solution
GRC specialist ACA Group has launched a performance measurement and reporting solution for investment firms. The move is aimed at tapping into the growing industry requirement for investment firms to outsource more of their compliance and reporting needs in the face of an industry-wide shortage of compliance talent. ACA’s new Managed Performance Services offering enables...
An Industry Update on FRTB Implementation in APAC
Implementation of Fundamental Review of the Trading book (FRTB) regulation across APAC raises many challenges, not least fragmentation of the regulation across jurisdictions in the region, fulfilling complex requirements of the regulation, sourcing necessary data, and selecting the internal or standarised model approach for specific trading desks. While the challenges are significant, and FRTB has...
Banks are Tackling Unique Challenges with ESG Data, Says CGI
Non-retail banks are wrestling with unique data requirements and challenges as they strive to build their ESG capabilities. A combination of factors including weak reporting standards and legacy technology is slowing wholesale lenders’ efforts to gather and use data needed to green their loan books and operations, according to IT and business consulting giant CGI....
The Potential of Generative AI to Transform and Disrupt Trading
What are the applications and use cases for generative AI in trading? How can firms successfully integrate large language models into their trading workflows and address challenges around data quality, model interpretability and potential biases? What are the regulatory and ethical concerns around AI systems and how can these be alleviated so that firms can...
GaiaLens Uses AI to Bring Transparency to Sentiment Data
Alternative ESG data provider GaiaLens has harnessed the AI technology behind headline-grabbing app ChatGPT to revamp its news sentiment feed to investors and asset managers. UK-based GaiaLens, which was formed three years ago, said the use of large language technology has helped the company turbo-boost its Momentum product, which scrapes trusted news sources for sentiment...
Quest Software Adds Data Marketplace to Data Intelligence Software Portfolio
Quest Software, a systems management, data protection and security software provider, has added a data marketplace based on the concept of ‘shop, share, and compare’ to its offerings. The data marketplace is included in version 13.0 of Quest’s erwin Data Intelligence solution, and is designed to help data users, stewards and owners find, understand, leverage...
KX Releases PyKX Python Interface to kdb+ for Developer Community, Accelerates Data Science Workflows
KX, provider of the kdb+ time-series database, Data Timehouse, and KDB.AI vector database, has released a new version of PyKX, its Python first interface to kdb+, with a development-only licence. The release expands the reach of KX technology to the more than 10 million strong Python developer community. By giving Python developers the ability to...