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ESG Ratings Providers See Calls for Regulation Snowball
The knives are out for ESG rating firms. Often criticised for their lack of consistency in assessing companies’ sustainability and ESG performances, ratings providers are now the subject of regulatory scrutiny with UK officials last week saying such companies were failing green markets. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the opacity of the methodologies of...
Quantexa Secures $129 Million Funding to Drive Product Innovation and Global Growth
Quantexa, a decision intelligence and AI provider, has completed a $129 million Series E funding round. This investment secures the UK company’s unicorn status – a privately held startup with a value over $1 billion – with a valuation of $1.8 billion, and will accelerate execution of its growth strategy. The round was led by...
ISS ESG Creates Cybersecurity Score, Index as Investors Link Data Protection to ESG
Cybersecurity used to be regarded purely as a technology and operations issue. But more and more investors are drawing a line between vigilance against data breaches and ESG performance. Protecting personal privacy of corporate employees and customers through the security of data is widely viewed today as falling under the social pillar of ESG. Further,...
Solidatus and BigID Partner to Provide Enhanced Metadata Visibility
Solidatus has partnered BigID, a platform for data security, privacy, compliance and governance, to provide a best-in-breed solution offering enhanced metadata visibility. The partnership is a response to requests from joint customers and will give users an active governance blueprint, delivering dynamic and real-time visualisation of the flow of data across the enterprise. Organisations can...
Strategy and Tools for Tracking Licensed Data Within Financial Services
By Neil Sandle, Head of Product Management, 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,...
Clausematch Partners Várri Consultancy to Provide Compliance Solutions in MENA Region
Clausematch, a RegTech company offering solutions for compliance, has partnered Várri Consultancy to make compliance automation software available for small and medium enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Headquartered in Dubai, Várri provides strategy consulting, as well as risk and governance advisory services. This is London-based Clausematch’s first partnership in the...
Themis Adds Supply Chain Risk Assessment Tool
Themis, a provider of anti-money laundering software, has released a supply chain risk assessment tool that allows firms to map high-risk geographies and sectors, and possible touch points of financial crime including fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing, modern slavery and human trafficking, and bribery and corruption. The risk assessment tool helps firms visualise invisible...
Market Abuse Regulation – How to Detect and Analyse Abusive Market Transactions
A clear understanding of the business, frequent risk assessments, staff training, and a suitable surveillance system are key to compliance with Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and its equivalences. So too, are governance, board level responsibility, and a strong compliance culture across the organisation. These are just some of the findings from a recent webinar hosted...
Broadway Technology and Bloomberg: A Promising Collaboration
Last month, Bloomberg entered into an agreement to acquire Broadway Technology, LLC, a provider of high-performance fixed income trading and workflow solutions. In this exclusive interview for TradingTech Insight, Broadway Technology’s CEO, Michael Chin, discusses the background behind the deal, the synergy between the two companies, and what this partnership means for the future of...
Aquis Introduces World’s First 24×7 Regulated Market-Grade Exchange Matching Engine
Aquis Technologies, a division of Aquis Exchange PLC, has announced the launch of Aquis Equinox, the world’s first regulated market-grade 24×7 matching engine that eliminates the need for shutdown or downtime. Traditional exchange models and alternative finance exchange models often require downtime for tasks such as sequence number resets, maintenance, and software upgrades. Aquis Equinox...