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Liquidnet Enhances Equities Trading Application with Actionable Alerts for Improved Execution
Liquidnet, the technology-driven agency execution specialist, has announced the integration of actionable alerts into its equities trading application, aiming to improve execution and alpha generation. The enhanced application is available to all US and Canadian clients and is powered by Liquidnet’s premium suite of algorithms. The new alerts enhance the application’s liquidity-seeking capabilities, offering traders…
Bloomberg Wins A-Team Group Award for Most Innovative Data Standards Initiative
Bloomberg has won the award for Most Innovative Data Standards Initiative in A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2023. The awards celebrate innovative solutions, projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. Bloomberg’s data standards initiative, the Financial Instrument…
VoxSmart Raises $12 Million in New Funding
Surveillance technology supplier VoxSmart has raised $12 million in a funding round that includes ToscaFund and other existing investors. The latest raise is aimed at helping VoxSmart leverage the opportunity presented by the greater regulatory scrutiny of WhatsApp and other communications channels used by financial professionals. VoxSmart CEO Oliver Blower says the company has witnessed…
ESG Ratings Providers See Calls for Regulation Snowball
The knives are out for ESG rating firms. Often criticised for their lack of consistency in assessing companies’ sustainability and ESG performances, ratings providers are now the subject of regulatory scrutiny with UK officials last week saying such companies were failing green markets. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the opacity of the methodologies of…
Quantexa Secures $129 Million Funding to Drive Product Innovation and Global Growth
Quantexa, a decision intelligence and AI provider, has completed a $129 million Series E funding round. This investment secures the UK company’s unicorn status – a privately held startup with a value over $1 billion – with a valuation of $1.8 billion, and will accelerate execution of its growth strategy. The round was led by…
ISS ESG Creates Cybersecurity Score, Index as Investors Link Data Protection to ESG
Cybersecurity used to be regarded purely as a technology and operations issue. But more and more investors are drawing a line between vigilance against data breaches and ESG performance. Protecting personal privacy of corporate employees and customers through the security of data is widely viewed today as falling under the social pillar of ESG. Further,…
Solidatus and BigID Partner to Provide Enhanced Metadata Visibility
Solidatus has partnered BigID, a platform for data security, privacy, compliance and governance, to provide a best-in-breed solution offering enhanced metadata visibility. The partnership is a response to requests from joint customers and will give users an active governance blueprint, delivering dynamic and real-time visualisation of the flow of data across the enterprise. Organisations can…
Strategy and Tools for Tracking Licensed Data Within Financial Services
By Neil Sandle, Head of Product Management, Alveo. Indices are tools used to track how asset classes, industry sectors, market segments, and a host of other physical and virtual sets of data perform over time. Leading examples can be found in the realm of financial services, in particular with stock markets, where the FTSE 100,…
Clausematch Partners Várri Consultancy to Provide Compliance Solutions in MENA Region
Clausematch, a RegTech company offering solutions for compliance, has partnered Várri Consultancy to make compliance automation software available for small and medium enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Headquartered in Dubai, Várri provides strategy consulting, as well as risk and governance advisory services. This is London-based Clausematch’s first partnership in the…
Themis Adds Supply Chain Risk Assessment Tool
Themis, a provider of anti-money laundering software, has released a supply chain risk assessment tool that allows firms to map high-risk geographies and sectors, and possible touch points of financial crime including fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing, modern slavery and human trafficking, and bribery and corruption. The risk assessment tool helps firms visualise invisible…