A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Direct Lenders Seek More Data to Develop ESG Market
Direct lending funds’ ambitions to invest more heavily into sustainable projects are being hindered by a shortage of good quality ESG data. The pools of capital, which have grown in popularity as banks pull away from middle-market corporate borrowers, are looking to up their lending to ESG-linked companies and projects. According to a survey by...
Index Firm Solactive to Add New ESG Services Beyond Indexing through Minerva Buy Out
German benchmarking company Solactive has bought a British stewardship solutions provider, enabling it to offer proxy voting and stewardship services to asset managers and owners. Solactive said it bought Minerva Analytics because growth in demand for ESG-related financial services had surged after it acquired a 33 per cent stake in the firm in 2019. While...
Alveo Plans Acceleration of New Products Following Investment from Symphony Technology Group
Alveo is changing hands again after reaching a definitive agreement to receive a majority investment from Symphony Technology Group (STG), a private equity partner to companies in data, software, and analytics. Alveo expects the STG investment to accelerate roll out of new products, further developing its managed data services and Data-as-a-Service offerings. The STG investment...
Etrading Hires Senior Execs to Expand Regulatory Data Services
Etrading Software has hired two senior executives to expand its regulatory data services. The company most recently released the Digital Token Identifier, an ISO standard identifier designed to help market participants and public authorities unambiguously identify digital assets. Joining Etrading are Liz Callaghan as chief strategy officer for regulatory data services, and Catherine Sutcliffe as...
How to Solve the Operations Talent Crisis
Is your organisation short of operations staff and finding it difficult to boost numbers? If it is, you are not alone, with financial services firms in the grip of the Great Resignation and job seekers casting a more favourable eye over creative business opportunities than back-office operational roles. Still more, is business growth at your...
LSEG and Reuters Extend Financial and Market News Services for LSEG Customers
LSEG and Thomson Reuters have extended their long-term partnership on news and information with a number of shared commitments designed to enhance the value of financial and market news services offered to LSEG customers. The companies’ partnership started in 2018 and makes LSEG the exclusive distributor of Reuters news to the financial community under a...
Indian Equity Market Prepares to Finalise T+1 Settlement
On January 27th, India’s move to T+1 settlement will be complete, when all large cap and blue chip stocks listed on Indian stock exchanges will move from T+2 to T+1 settlement, allowing buyers to receive shares and sellers to receive funds just one day after trading rather than the current two-day cycle. The move to...
EU Regulatory Priorities for 2023, According to our Brussels Insider
Higher Interest Rates, A Volatile Crypto-Asset Environment and the Growth of Opaque Non-Bank Institutions Challenge Central Banks and Regulators in the EU. These were the opening remarks of Dr. David Doyle, an EU financial services regulatory expert, and frequent speaker at A-Team Group conferences, when we met up with him early in the New Year...
Iress Partners with Megaport to Provide Global Cloud Connectivity for Market Data
Iress, the financial software, services and technology company, has entered into a strategic partnership with Megaport, a global Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider, to provide additional connectivity between Iress and all major public cloud service providers (CSPs), including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The partnership will enable Iress clients to directly access global markets from...
LIBOR Transition: The Countdown Is On
Ian Sams, European Head of Product at TraditionDATA. Financial institutions and corporates have fewer than six months to get ready for one of the biggest changes to financial markets in history. On 30 June 2023, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) will cease publishing the London interbank overnight rate (LIBOR) dollar-denominated tenors. Market participants must move to alternative risk-free...