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Data, Tech Rising to Water Challenge as Historic UN Meeting Highlights Alarm
History will be made in New York next week when heads of state from around the world gather for the first United Nations Water Conference in half a century. The fact that it is being held at all underlines the growing importance of water to the global sustainability project. Water-based issues, from pollution, stewardship, overuse…
DTCC Releases LIBOR Benchmark Replacement Index Solution
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released a new LIBOR Benchmark Replacement Index solution to support the industry’s transition from LIBOR benchmark rates to Secured Overnight Financing Rate Data (SOFR) as well as other new fallback rate indices by 30 June 2023. The solution will allow users to view information for over 100,000…
How to Harness the Value of Cloud for Scale and Agility
As financial services firms recognise the value of data and benefits of data-led processes, many are undergoing digital transformations that put data at the heart of their operations and decision making. For most, this is providing competitive edge as data, and the insights it brings, enrich decisions and improve productivity – but not all digital…
Tallarium Secures Additional Investment from XTX Ventures and Reciprocal
Tallarium, a provider of specialised trade analytics for price discovery in off-exchange energy markets, has secured an additional $1.6million investment from XTX Ventures, the venture capital arm of algorithmic trading company XTX Markets, and Reciprocal, a venture capital firm. The investment will support the company’s goal of becoming the definitive pricing source for the energy…
GLEIF Notes Growth in LEI Numbers, Identifies New Use Cases Including Payments
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is alive and well, with numbers of active LEIs growing through 2022 despite no additional regulatory mandates, and new use cases of the identifier including cross-border payments expected to further expand not only numbers, but also acceptance and adoption of the standard. Data Management Insight recently talked to Stephan Wolf,…
DORA – A Step in the Right Direction but it’s not a Home Run
By Monica Oravcova, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Naoris Protocol. Cryptocurrency and digital assets such as NFT’s will most definitely be strong contenders for the defining innovation of this decade. Social platforms and connected media have facilitated an exponential growth in the speed at which new technology and ideas are adopted. Growing in tandem with…
Harvard Report Underlines Broadening Importance of ESG
ESG is now of such importance to financial institutions that getting the data and technology aspect of the topic right has become crucial to the smooth running of their broader operations. A report published by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance is the latest high-profile examination of the growth of sustainable markets to…
Widening ESG Data Demands Place New Pressures on Integration
A mushrooming of the ESG data market, growing demand for sustainability investment insights and increasing regulation is making the task of data integration harder for financial institutions. The sheer volume of available ESG data, the increasing variety of formats in which it’s disclosed and the growing number of vendors selling it is forcing financial firms…
Alveo Integrates MSCI ESG Research Content into DaaS Data Management Solution
Alveo has integrated MSCI ESG Research content into its Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) data management solution, giving clients access to both firms’ data and cloud data management capabilities, and providing solutions that integrate MSCI’s content into client workflows and help business users self-serve. Integrated MSCI content includes MSCI ESG Ratings, ESG Controversies and ESG Sustainable Impact Metrics,…
Reviewing Developments in the Global Regulatory Landscape and the Impact on Technology Change
If there’s one thing that we can be sure of with the world’s financial markets, it’s that the regulatory landscape never stands still. And right now, we’re going through a particularly dynamic phase. Divergence between UK and EU regulation post-Brexit is high on the agenda, with the EU conducting its ongoing review of MiFID II…