A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Asset and Wealth Managers Demand Different ESG Data, SIX Survey Finds
Asset managers and wealth managers have divergent data needs for ESG investing, a new survey suggests. While asset managers want access to better and more varied granular data, their wealth-focused counterparts prefer packaged ratings, the survey by Swiss financial services company SIX found. At the same time, both expressed frustration at the shortage of information...
CSRD Approval Seen as Major Step in Closing ESG Data Holes
The European Union’s approval of its Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) this week has given the greenlight to a regulation that’s expected to provide financial institutions with more comprehensive ESG data and go some way to eradicating greenwashing. The long-awaited rules will bring non-financial companies into the EU’s sustainability reporting regime, forcing them to submit...
EFAMA Stresses the Need for a Real-Time Consolidated Tape in Europe
As proposals for a consolidated tape (CT) for equities and bonds in Europe continue to be debated, industry body EFAMA (European Fund and Asset Management Association) has released a statement calling for a real-time CT for equities, to include both pre- and post-trade data. The creation of a CT was originally proposed in MiFID II...
GLEIF continues LEI push with mapping of S&P Global Company ID to the identifier
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) continues to promote use of the LEI through a collaboration with S&P Global Market Intelligence that certifies the mapping of the S&P Global Company ID to the LEI. GLEIF says links like this increase the value of the LEI by extending its connectivity to the world’s entity identifier...
RegCentric Wins A-Team Group Award for Best Regulatory Consultancy in APAC
Sydney, Australia-based RegCentric has won the award for Best Regulatory Consultancy in A-Team Group’s first live RegTech Insight Awards – APAC 2022. The awards celebrate leading providers of regulatory solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across Asia-Pacific. The winners are named after A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight community votes for its favourite providers in...
A-Team Group Names Winners of Inaugural RegTech Insight Awards – APAC 2022
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s inaugural RegTech Insight Awards – APAC 2022. The awards were presented by Andrew Delaney, President and Chief Content Officer at A-Team Group during a drinks reception following A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit APAC in Singapore on 29 November 2022. The RegTech Insight Awards recognise both established solution providers and...
Alveo expands data partnership with SIX
Alveo, a cloud-based market data integration, analytics and Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) solutions provider, has expanded its global data coverage and feed integrations with the addition of new content from SIX, including sentiment indicators, tax, and regulatory risk data. SIX data sets covering global security master and historical pricing data are already available to users of Alveo’s...
Back to Front: How Back-Office Data Provides Invaluable Front-Office Insights
By Tim Lind, Managing Director, DTCC Data Services. The capital markets industry has invested billions of dollars to automate back-office processes from trade confirmation all the way through clearing and settlement. The automation business case has typically been based on headcount savings and operational efficiencies, such as scaling operations for higher volumes, effective exception management,...
Could do Better: Year-End ESG Data Reports Offer Mixed Picture
The growing importance of ESG to the financial system was reflected this year in a greater push among investors and asset managers to address challenges in the data and reporting environment. Several end-of-year snapshots of the ESG sector paint a picture of greater engagement by the financial community in the sources and quality of the...
Clamour for ESG Data Makes Good Management Crucial
ESG data is now core to banks’ and financial institutions’ operations, their compliance and risk processes and the products they offer investors. For that reason, it’s crucial that this data be managed properly and treated in the same way as other datasets. Without good data management, banks can be left commercially and legally exposed, vulnerable...