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ESG Data and Tech Summit Report: The Art of Getting Data Right
ESG has become an integral, complex part of financial institutions’ workflows, making it crucial that they get their data and technology provisions right. But in this fast-changing part of the data ecosystem, what constitutes “right” isn’t easy to define. At A-Team Group’s second ESG Data and Tech Summit London last week, leading practitioners from the...
Video: RepRisk’s Maryse Gordon Discusses Approaches to ESG Risk Assessment
In this video, Maryse Gordon, partnerships and business development manager at RepRisk, an ESG data science firm combining machine learning and human intelligence to identify ESG risks, talks to Sarah Underwood, an editor at A-Team Group, at A-Team’s recent ESG Data & Tech Summit London. The discussion spans the challenges of ESG data, the need...
Crux Software-as-a-Service Platform Automates Integration of External Data
Crux, provider of a data integration, transformation, and observability solution, has released Crux External Data Platform, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering designed to allow organisations to onboard thousands of external datasets directly from vendors into internal data systems and drive better, faster decisions. Crux builds data pipelines at scale, allowing enterprises to ingest any custom data...
Beeks Group Secures OneChronos Contract for High-Performance ATS
In a competitive bid, OneChronos has selected Beeks Group, the cloud computing, connectivity and analytics provider for financial markets, to provide high-performance compute and a private environment for its new Alternative Trading System (ATS), which aims to bridge the widening gap between the functionalities of US Equities trading venues and the requirements of traders. OneChronos...
Regulatory Environment for Investment Research Facing Uncertainty, Substantive Study Says
Investment research provision in the US, Europe and the UK is facing more uncertainty as the market awaits significant changes to the regulatory landscape, according to a study of the current state of broker research pricing, supply and market share by Substantive Research. According to Substantive, MiFID II’s implementation in 2018 increased the focus on...
ING Deploys Quantexa for KYC, AML Investigations
Dutch bank ING Group is rolling out Quantexa’s analytics platform to strengthen risk detection and investigative capabilities in support of its global KYC and AML programmes. ING’s investigative teams will use Quantexa’s AI and advanced graph analytics capabilities to develop more effective and efficient KYC and AML measures, by connecting customers and counterparties in order...
Strategy and Tools for Tracking Licensed Data
By Neil Sandle, Chief Product Officer, Alveo. Indices are tools used to track how asset classes, industry sectors, market segments, and a host of other physical and virtual sets of data perform over time. Leading examples can be found in the realm of financial services, in particular with stock markets where the FTSE 100, NASDAQ...
A-Team Group Names Winners of ESG Insight Awards 2023
A-Team Group announced the winners of its ESG Insight Awards 2023 after the close of today’s lively and informative ESG Data and Tech Summit in London. The awards recognise both established solution vendors and innovative newcomers providing leading ESG solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants. This year’s ESG Insight Awards included over 20...
London Stock Exchange Group Partners with OpenFin to Enhance Workspace Platform Delivery
A significant partnership has been established between the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and OpenFin, a leading provider of Chromium container and workspace technology to the financial sector. LSEG aims to enhance the distribution of its next-generation data and analytics to customer desktops via its flagship LSEG Workspace platform, using OpenFin’s secure zero-install delivery model...
Clarity AI, GIST Impact and S&P Launch Biodiversity Tools for Investors
A partnership service between sustainability technology platform Clarity AI and impact data intelligence provider GIST Impact is among new biodiversity tools unveiled for financial institutions in the past week. They join S&P Global unit Sustainable 1, which has taken the sheets off a new dataset that helps investors track the nature-based impact and dependencies of...