A-Team Insight Author: sharon
S&P Global Forges Collaboration with AWS to Accelerate Business Growth and Innovation
S&P Global and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are building on a longtime relationship with a multi-year strategic collaboration that will be based on AWS as preferred cloud provider and help S&P Global enhance its cloud infrastructure, accelerate business growth, and engineer innovation. The collaboration reinforces S&P Global’s efforts to optimise its data and technology assets...
Alveo Sets Sights on Accelerating Market Data Migration to Cloud and Improving Business User Access to Data
Alveo has set out its next stage strategy with a focus on two key themes – accelerating client migration of market data to cloud, and building out its self-service data provision for business users. Also on the agenda are ESG data management, industry partnerships, and development of AI tools. To find out more about the...
Trends in Electronic Trading
By Jeffrey Britell, Senior Vice President – Global Network Services, IPC Systems. In the past 20 years, electronic trading technology has opened up what was a largely interbank domain to a much broader financial community that includes investment managers, buy-side and retail firms and increasingly, non-traditional, technology-led firms. From the early days of order management...
Delivering on ESG Through the Cloud
By Shaun Hurst, Principal Regulatory Advisor for EMEA, Smarsh. ESG, the acronym that refers to the alignment of environmental, social, and governance performance and objectives with company practices and investor strategies, has evolved from being a ‘nice to have’ for companies and financial institutions to a concrete expectation. But with rising regulation, litigation and growing scrutiny...
Data Challenge Poses ESG Rethink for Private Equity
Uncertainty over how ESG data should be used and reported is placing a strain on private equity investment, one of the fastest growing pools of capital going into sustainable markets. A survey by software-as-a-service data management firm Key ESG found that nine in 10 of the portfolio companies that private funds trust to manage their...
TradingTech Summit Returns to London with Focus on Digital Transformation and Innovation
The TradingTech Summit London, one of the most highly anticipated events in the financial technology industry, is back for the 12th time on 28th February at London’s Hilton Canary Wharf. The summit will bring together the leading innovators, investors, and thought leaders in trading technology to discuss the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this...
Pico Launches Test Lab to Enable Replication of Real-World Trading Environments
Pico, the technology services, software, data and analytics vendor, has launched the Pico Performance Lab, offering high-performance testing resources to financial services firms. The Lab provides customers with the ability to implement, simulate and test Pico’s full-stack trading technology solution, including infrastructure, connectivity, market data, trading software, critical timing services and Corvil Analytics. The Lab...
Crux Secures $50 Million Funding for SaaS Solution Offering Fast Access to External Data
Crux, provider of a cloud-based data integration and operations solution designed to accelerate value between internal and external data, has secured funding of $50 million in addition to previous funding led by financial sciences company Two Sigma and the Growth Equity business of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs) for a total of $175 million...
Alveo’s Latest ICE Data Integration to Help Banks as Well as Asset Managers
Alveo has expanded its ESG data integration services in one of the first moves by a data management solutions specialist to help its banking and asset management clients meet imminent new European sustainability regulations. The London-headquartered company has integrated Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) ESG company data analytics into its data management solution, called Prime. The new integration will enable Alveo customers to access the ESG characteristics...
Clausematch Releases Open-Source Knowledge Graph Framework for Regulatory Reporting
Clausematch has released an open-source digital regulatory knowledge graph aimed at providing the financial regulatory community with a framework to assess how AI and knowledge graph technologies can be applied to reporting. The idea is to encourage regulators to publish their rules and regulations in the form of structured datasets, or knowledge graphs, as with...