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Broadridge Automates Corporate Actions Managed Through Euroclear CREST
Broadridge Financial Solutions has fully automated corporate action and dividend events managed through the Euroclear CREST platform. The service includes event creation, instruction management, and payments processing and settlement, and is designed to reduce risk associated with human error and provide cost savings for clients. Members of both CREST and Broadridge Global Asset Servicing are…
Alveo Integrates QuantLib into Ops360 to Deliver No Code Curve Builder Capabilities
Alveo, a provider of cloud-based market data management services, has extended its Ops360 data operations solution with the integration of QuantLib for advanced analytics. The functionality allows any appropriately permissioned business user to drag and drop input data sets into functions and set parameters to derive data and kick off the calculation of curves and…
BMLL Secures $26m Series B Investment to Fuel Further Growth
BMLL, the independent provider of harmonised, historical Level 3 data and analytics across global equity and futures markets, has secured a Series B investment of USD 26 million. The funding round was led by Nasdaq Ventures, FactSet and IQ Capital’s Growth Fund, and supported by ACF Investors and other new and existing investors. BMLL provides…
A-Team Group Returns to New York with Acclaimed RegTech Summit – Don’t Miss It!
Don’t miss it! A-Team Group is back in New York on 16 November 2022 with its sixth RegTech Summit. The event will be packed with keynotes, presentations and panel sessions hosted by industry leaders and joined by regulators, leading RegTech practitioners, product innovators, and regulatory related organisations. The Summit will be followed by this year’s…
S&P Sustainable1 Physical Risk Scores Offer Social Impact Window
E, S and G is generally regarded in aggregation, but data products and services usually measure each individually. S&P Global Sustainable1 business, however, believes the geolocated company and climate data combined in its new physical risks metrics are providing a means of measuring the conjunction of the first two of ESG’s pillars. The global rating…
Confluence of Historical Trends Puts APAC at Centre of the RegTech Scene
Confirmation of a concept’s validity can come in the most banal of ways. For Claus Cristensen, founder and chief executive of Dublin-based RegTech provider Know Your Customer, such a moment came during a business lunch with colleagues in Shanghai, China. When it came to paying the bill, Christensen reached for his wallet but his locally…
Vendor Strategy: ISS Translates Governance Data into Action
Of the three pillars of ESG, the third is often considered the most difficult to influence or change, even when informed with the most accurate data. Purpose-driven investors may not always have the time, resources or voting power to formulate an action plan that will enable them to carefully examine whether a constituent of its…
FCA Proposes Tough Anti-Greenwashing Rules for UK
The UK’s financial regulator has issued its toughest set of proposals yet to crack down on greenwashing. The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) proposed Sustainable Disclosures Requirements contains a list of measures, including rules on labelling of green financial products and restrictions on the language that can be used to describe green investment instruments, that it…
Colt Completes Proof of Concept for Multicast Data in the Cloud
In a further indication of the industry’s interest in finding ways to utilise the cloud for distribution of market data, connectivity and colocation provider Colt Technology Services has announced the successful completion of a cloud colocation Proof of Concept (PoC), demonstrating the viability of hosting and distributing multicast data in the cloud. According to the…
Bloomberg Employs ML and Industry-Implied Models to Increase Carbon Emissions Data
Bloomberg has increased its carbon emissions dataset to cover 100,000 companies. The dataset consists of company reported carbon data and estimates based on either a machine learning smart model or Bloomberg’s newly developed industry-implied model accompanied by a Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) reliability score. “Greater precision in Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon…