A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Kyte Broking Limited Enhances Client Communications to Include WhatsApp and Telegram
Futures and Options broker Kyte Broking Limited, part of the Market Securities Group, has announced the introduction of WhatsApp and Telegram as approved customer communication channels, significantly enhancing client interaction capabilities. This development comes as a solution to the previous challenges posed by strict regulatory demands for broker-client communications. Previously classified as ‘off-channel’ by the...
New Bloomberg Indices Provide Sovereign Bond Climate-Tilted Benchmarks
Investors seeking to integrate measures of climate transition risk into the portfolio management process **can now benchmark against countries’ climate preparedness via a new set of Bloomberg indices. The Bloomberg Government Climate Tilted Bond Index family integrates carbon-reduction performance and other factors into sovereign bond indices. They are built with Bloomberg’s proprietary Government Climate Scores, which...
$10m Cash Injection Adds Fuel to IDL Growth
Iceberg Data Lab’s (IDL) meteoric growth has been given another boost. The Paris-based ESG data start-up last week received a US$10 million cash injection in a series A funding round. The company, which uses artificial intelligence to power a data model that founder Matthieu Maurin boasts has “no data gaps”, received backing from investors including...
CTM Debuts New Tri-Party Matching Workflow for Prime Brokers with Société Générale as First to Go Live
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the leading provider of post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has announced Société Générale as the first Prime Broker to adopt the Central Trade Manager’s (CTM) automated tri-party trade matching workflow. This development comes as the financial services sector worldwide braces for T+1 and more...
Capital.com Establishes New Subsidiary in UAE as Launchpad for Further Growth Across MENA and Asia
Capital.com, the global trading platform, has announced its expansion into the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through the establishment of a new subsidiary, Capital Com MENA Securities Trading LLC (Capital Com MENA), located in Dubai’s Emirates Tower. This strategic move follows the company’s receipt of full regulatory approval from the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA),...
Institutions Look to Cloud to Meet New Asset Management Data Challenges: Arcesium
Institutional asset managers are looking to cloud solutions as they seek to find economies and streamline their asset management processes. Taking advantage of new digital technology that can help them meet changing client demands in an evolving financial landscape, these firms have been prompted to look to the cloud as creaking legacy infrastructure limits their...
Saifr Addresses Need for Continuous Due Diligence in Marcomms Content Compliance
Ensuring financial services’ firms marketing messages accurately reflect what’s really on offer has long been a challenge for compliance professionals. And with other areas of the business attracting substantial and highly public penalties from regulators, the danger was that this function didn’t get the attention it deserved. But regulators are starting to pay more attention,...
Alveo Reviews Costs and Use Cases of AI in Financial Data Management
Adoption of AI across financial services is causing a cost shift from operations to technology and data, with 63% of decision makers expecting AI to result in an increase in the cost of data within their organisation. The cost of hardware and software licences is also likely to rise in response to AI, and 50%...
Regulations to be put Under Microscope at ESG Data and Tech Summit
Regulatory rollouts over the next 12 months are likely to be pivotal in setting the scene for the next stage of the ESG data and technology space as political attitudes towards sustainability diverge from the demands of investors. Pushback against sustainability markets has already seen several regulatory codes, both implemented and proposed, watered down. At...
GRESB Launches Real Estate Tool to Benchmark Individual Buildings
A new suite of tools has been launched to help investors and fund managers assess the sustainability of real estate assets in their portfolios. REAL Benchmarks, one of several new services created by real estate ESG-data provider GRESB, enables the identification of individual buildings with poor performance compared with peers to encourage owners to begin...