A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Challenges and Opportunities of Internal Self-Service Data Solutions
The concept of internal self-service data solutions is gaining traction as financial institutions and corporations see value in the data sets they generate through their business activities. That said, harnessing the data to provide valuable insights for internal business teams can be a challenge. One approach is to adopt a self-service data delivery model that...
Compliance.ai Plans Market Growth and Expansion on Back of $6 Million Funding Round
Compliance.ai, a provider of regulatory change management solutions, has secured $6 million of funding, which it will use to promote market growth and expansion. At the same time, the company has brought in a new CEO, Asif Alam, who will replace Kayvan Alikhani, who will continue innovating Compliance.ai products as co-founder and chief product/strategy officer....
Why ESG Data Is the Key to Connecting Next Generation Investors
By Marion Leslie, Head of Financial Information, Member of the Executive Board, and Executive Board Lead for Sustainability at SIX Group. Last year saw record inflows for ESG in passive investing, as $391 billion poured into ESG ETF assets, up nearly 100% from 2020 and ten times as much as in 2017, according to Statista research. There is...
UK Turns Focus on ESG Data for Pension Funds
Pension fund managers and asset owners in the UK have become the focus of a number of government initiatives to address ESG data challenges facing the industry. The most recent is a taskforce set up by the nation’s Department for Work and Pensions that aims to identify reliable data and metrics on social factors affecting...
OS Climate Launches Free Tools it Hopes Will Transform ESG Decision Making
Competitors have become collaborators in a project that has created free tools to help financial institutions and other organisations gauge the sustainability performance of companies and assets. Banks, including BNP Paribas, and asset managers, such as Allianz, have contributed to the OS-Climate project, which aims to increase the easy availability of technology to help with...
Overbond Secures New Round of Funding from Fitch Ventures and Aims for International Expansion
Overbond, the API-based credit trading automation and execution service for the global capital markets, has secured funding from Fitch Ventures, the equity investment arm of Fitch Group, the financial information services provider. The capital will help Overbond grow its sales and marketing division as it plans to open an office in London and double its...
Cboe Global Markets Selects Snowflake for Next Leg of Journey to Cloud
Cboe Global Markets is working with Snowflake to migrate its corporate data and analytics from on-premises systems to the cloud. The adoption of Snowflake’s data cloud continues Cboe’s journey to cloud and is expected to transform the company’s data and analytics infrastructure into a modern cloud architecture, bringing speed, scalability, and efficiency to its handling...
FactSet Collaborates with CID to Strengthen AI Capabilities for Clients
FactSet has teamed up with AI software specialist CID to build a joint data lake for the financial services industry. The data lake merges unstructured public web content with FactSet’s structured content sets, along with optional third-party and client content, into vast entity relationship graphs. The aim of the multi-year collaboration is to provide FactSet...
Moving from Legacy Systems to an Interoperable Future – Why Innovation is No Longer Big Bang
In this Q&A, Stephen Collie, head of sales engineering at FINBOURNE Technology, discusses the core data management challenges paralysing the buy-side today, and explores the critical role of a Modern Financial Data Stack and incremental innovation in the transition to an interoperable future. Q: Stephen, given FINBOURNE’s work with organisations across the global investment community,...
The Electronification of Credit Markets: What’s Fuelling the Uptake
By Tommaso Di Grazia, Head of Fixed Income Product Development at ION Markets. In recent years, the credit market has become increasingly complex and fragmented, making it harder for firms to find liquidity and offer customers fast and accurate services. However, simultaneously, the market has seen a growth in electronic trading; according to industry analysts...