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Collibra Debuts Data Lineage Solution
Collibra has revealed its latest solution, a data lineage tool that enables organizations to understand where data comes from and how it flows and transforms across the enterprise. The launch marks the first integration since the firm acquired automated technical lineage provider SQLdep back in July 2019. Targeting large enterprises, the solution offers native lineage…
Decision-Making, Not Compliance, Drives Data Governance Programs
Data governance drivers have shifted, with better decision-making now a priority when it comes to data governance decisions – but organizations are still grappling with data governance challenges and still depend largely on manual approaches for data lineage, data cataloguing and data mapping. So finds data modelling specialist erwin in its latest report on the…
IHS Markit and MSCI Team Up on Yet Another ESG Initiative
In the latest signal that ESG (environmental, social and governance) data is becoming big news, last week saw yet another initiative in the sustainable investment space as MSCI joined forces with information and analytics giant IHS Markit to broaden the reach of its ESG data and research services via collaboration on a range of fixed…
Goldman Sachs Integrates Bloomberg Pricing and Reference Data for Digital Clients
Goldman Sachs will integrate Bloomberg’s Data License content with its own client-facing Marquee platform, making it the first global investment bank to use Bloomberg data for in-house applications offered to clients. In 2018 Bloomberg expanded its Data License content (which sits within its Enterprise Data business) from 12,000 data fields to over 40,000 – building…
Can EQT Partners Repeat $3 Billion BvD Flip with Rimes Investment?
Swedish private equity firm EQT Partners has emerged as the mystery suitor behind talk that managed data management specialist Rimes Technologies was up for sale. EQT is best known in the data management space as the investor that in 2014 acquired entity data specialist Bureau van Dijk (BvD) and flipped it three years later to…
DTCC Adds API Marketplace to Streamline Access to Services
DTCC has introduced an Application Programming Interface (API) Marketplace to provide its clients, partners and internal developers with a central location for APIs developed by DTCC. The solution externalises and extends an internal DTCC API marketplace for developers that was established about a year ago, and is designed to streamline access to services and improve…
Peter Moss Departs SmartStream RDU, Coffman to Replace
Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist SmartStream lost a leading light in December with the departure of data guru Peter Moss as CEO of SmartStream RDU, a reference data specialist co-founded back in 2016 with buy-in from Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley. Now a wholly-owned subsidiary of SmartStream, the reference data utility (RDU) was created…
Moody’s to Acquire RDC in GRC Push
Moody’s Corporation has confirmed plans to buy customer screening and KYC/AML data provider Regulatory DataCorp (RDC) for $700 million, from private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. The deal continues Moody’s push into the data and compliance arena following its 2017 acquisition of BvD in a transaction valuing the company at $3 billion. It’s too early…
Unlocking the Value of Supply Chain Data
By: Gregory Van Droogenbroeck, head of enterprise reference data; Mark Schwartz, global data product manager for supply chain; and Tom Lagerman, supply chain data analyst, at Bloomberg. A growing number of investors are exploring supply chains’ potential for fresh insights and actionable information on companies, industries, sectors and asset classes. They’re betting the data on…
Future of Sustainable Data Alliance Drives Capital Markets Contribution to UN Sustainable Development Goals
Refinitiv has established the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance with the objective of accelerating the mobilisation of capital into sustainable finance. The alliance will address the question: What data do investors and governments need to meet the requirements of both regulators and customers for sustainable investments and products in pursuit of the 2030 Agenda. It…