A-Team Insight Author: sharon
ION Releases Compliance SaaS to Target Tier 2 / 3 Buy Sides
ION Markets is targeting Tier 2 and Tier 3 asset management firms with its new Compliance SaaS solution, which helps firms comply with regulations globally as well as internal policies governing their investment activities on behalf of clients. The new platform uses Web technologies to offer SaaS and HTML 5 delivery of the former Sentinel...
Bloomberg Makes Strategic Investment in Insightful Technology and Integrates with Soteria
Bloomberg has made a strategic investment in London-based Insightful Technology, the owners and operators of the Soteria Integrated Compliance Solution, and entered into a commercial collaboration with the company. As part of the collaboration, Soteria will be integrated with Bloomberg Compliance Solutions, which includes Bloomberg Vault among other real-time Bloomberg surveillance systems and preventative controls,...
ICE Broadens its ESG Suite With Urgentem Acquisition and Geospatial Tool
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is positioning itself as a full-service ESG data and analytics provider with two recent substantial investments. The Atlanta, Georgia-based financial infrastructure giant has bought climate risk data provider Urgentem for an undisclosed sum and unveiled its latest geospatial data offering for mortgage and other structured finance investors called ICE ESG Geo-Analyzer. The investments...
Latest MiFID Update Adds to Firms’ ESG Challenges
Manufacturers of financial products are racing to complete their first ESG disclosures under MiFID II. While the amendment to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive was announced in April last year, the fact that this latest regulation comes into force when the next iteration of Europe’s broader sustainability law is just around the corner has...
Accessing FX Liquidity in a Multi-Asset Environment
By Chris Jenkins, Managing Director at TORA Buy side firms wishing to access FX liquidity in today’s markets face a number of challenges. This is particularly true if they are managing a multi-asset fund, running strategies that include an FX component operating alongside other asset classes. The FX market is highly fragmented and comprises multiple...
It All Comes Out in the Wash: Why Clean ESG Data is Key
By Kifaya Belkaaloul, Head of Regulatory, NeoXam. As ESG investing becomes a vital offering for financial institutions, there has been a marked rise in marketing efforts of these capabilities and subsequently an increase in accusations of greenwashing. Current allegations against DWS, Deutsche Bank’s funds arm, are gaining a head of steam, demonstrated by the resignation...
Bank of England and FCA Review Joint Transformation Programme Dedicated to Data Collection
The Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have provided an update on the joint transformation programme they set up in 2021 to overhaul data collection from UK financial services firms. The aim is to improve regulation of regulated firms and ease the burden of reporting for these firms. The programme is expected to...
Banca March Selects GoldenSource for ESG Data Management and Analytics
Banca March, a Spanish investment bank and financial services company, has selected GoldenSource ESG Impact to manage data and analytics for its ESG-related investment and banking processes. As part of the bank’s data strategy, the approach to mastering and managing ESG data will be aligned with enterprise data already managed in GoldenSource tools Security Master...
Aspire and Know Your Customer Partner to Offer On-Boarding to SMEs in Southeast Asia
Singapore-based finance services provider Aspire has partnered with Know Your Customer to offer the latter’s digital onboarding capabilities to the estimated 70 million small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia. The new partnership will enhance Aspire’s ability to digitise and streamline corporate onboarding for SMEs, entrepreneurs and corporate clients using Know Your...
Solving the Multicast Challenge of Distributing Market Data in the Cloud
As cloud becomes increasingly widely adopted in the financial markets sector, one area of cloud migration that remains elusive is that of market data distribution. The key stumbling block is the fact that the industry almost exclusively relies on multicast for distributing real-time market data. Multicast is tried and tested, it works, it is well...