A-Team Insight Author: sharon
A-Team Group Announces Winners of ESG Insight Awards 2024
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its ESG Insight Awards 2024. These awards recognise both established solution vendors and innovative newcomers providing leading ESG solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants. This year’s awards included more than 30 categories ranging from Best Regulatory Reporting Solution for ESG to Best ESG Data and Technology...
RepRisk Chief Hails CSDDD as Good for Investor Decision Making
The European Union’s latest piece of sustainability legislation will provide investors with greater transparency into companies’ climate and human rights performance, giving them crucial information on which to make investment and risk decisions, according to a leading figure in the ESG data space. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) will enable firms to present...
Data Suggests ESG Integration Burden is Easing in Private Markets
The ESG integration burden on private markets appears to be abating. Two reports this week suggest that one of the largest investment categories for financial institutions are finding it easier to obtaining the data they need to implement a robust sustainability strategy and that the importance of ESG to portfolio companies is increasing. A survey...
Delta Capita Expands CLM Managed Services Following Acquisition of LSEG Onboarding Solution
Delta Capita, a capital markets consulting, managed services and technology provider, is planning to extend its offer of managed services in client lifecycle management (CLM) following the acquisition of LSEG’s client onboarding solution. The LSEG solution is based on Thomson Reuters’ 2013 acquisition of GoldTier Technologies, a provider of client onboarding software. Thomson Reuters Financial...
NeoXam Adds Lion Global Investors to Growing List of APAC Clients
Another win for NeoXam, a provider of data management, reporting, portfolio management and valuation software, in APAC as it enters a collaboration with Singapore-based Lion Global Investors (LGI) to centralise and optimise the asset management company’s investment data and performance reporting across middle and back-office operations. The company recently secured a deal with Platinum Asset...
MENA – A Compelling Capital Markets Destination
As the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region undergoes a significant evolution from its traditional reliance on oil revenues to establishing itself as a dynamic financial market, exchanges and market intermediaries in the region are embracing advanced technologies to support their burgeoning financial services ecosystems. For international firms looking to take advantage of this...
Trading Tech Front and Centre at AFCM Conference in Doha
Last week witnessed an impressive gathering of exchange CEOs and senior market and technology practitioners from across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at the Arab Federation of Capital Markets’ (AFCM) annual conference. At the event – this year in Doha, Qatar, and hosted by AFCM general secretary Rami El-Dokany – leaders met to...
BNP Paribas Becomes First EU G-SIB to Join GLEIF Validation Agent Programme
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) continues to build out the Global LEI System (GLEIS) with the addition of BNP Paribas as a Validation Agent. The addition of BNP Paribas marks the first global systemically important bank (G-SIB) headquartered in the EU to join the Validation Agent programme. Most recently, the GLEIF added Nord...
Out with the Rules: Why MDM Never Delivers on its Promise
By Anthony Deighton, CEO at Tamr. Unifying and managing data across an entire organisation is a battle against siloed systems and inconsistent data standards that reduce operational efficiencies, impair decision-making and compromise customer experiences among many other business impacts. That’s why the promise of Master Data Management (MDM) was so attractive when it first emerged....
Hosting GenAI in the Cloud for RegTech
In his recent letter to shareholders, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon highlighted cloud computing and GenAI as integral components of the firm’s strategy, with 75% of its data and 70% of its applications to be hosted in a combination of public and private clouds this year. Over the past decade, cloud computing has become...