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A-Team Group Names Winners of ESG Insight Awards
A-Team Group announced the winners of its inaugural ESG Insight Awards today. The awards recognise both established solution vendors and innovative newcomers providing leading ESG solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants. The awards included over 20 categories of ESG solutions ranging from Best ESG risk data provider to Best overall ESG data provider,…
ASX Drives Product Innovation Through Migration of Data and Analytics to Google Cloud
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has migrated its data and analytics footprint to Google Cloud with the aim of improving product innovation and extending access to insights for the exchange and its customers. The move is part of a broader business and technology transformation at ASX. The migration sees the exchange’s DataSphere data science and…
SIX Expands Data Offerings by Partnering with Tradeweb and CryptoCompare
Swiss-based infrastructure services and financial information company SIX has entered into two partnership agreements that will expand the company’s data offerings. By partnering with global electronic marketplace operator Tradeweb, SIX customers will have access to municipal bond prices generated by Tradeweb Municipal AI-Price. And through a partnership with CryptoCompare, the digital asset market data provider,…
BMLL Launches Data Visualisation Tool for Equities and ETFs
BMLL, the independent provider of financial market data and analytics, has launched BMLL Vantage, a no-code data and analytics visual application that gives market participants visual access to full depth order book data for US and European equities and ETFs. BMLL has a strong track record in making Level 3 historical data and analytics available…
Know Your Customer and HAWK AI Partner to Strengthen Defence Against Financial Crime
Know Your Customer, a provider of modular digital client onboarding solutions, and Hawk AI, a provider of anti-money laundering surveillance technology for financial institutions, payment firms and fintechs, have made a strategic partnership that will build a stronger defence against financial crime. The partnership combines Know Your Customer’s digital onboarding and business KYC solutions with…
EU Publishes Mandate for Use of UPI Alongside LEI in OTC Derivatives Transaction Reporting
The Official Journal of the European Union has published the requirement for the Unique Product Identifier (UPI), created and distributed by the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), to be part of EU law. The mandate is included in the EMIR Refit publication and makes the EU the first jurisdiction among the G20 to enforce use of…
How Well Does Your Company Really Know its Sanctions Chain?
By Jay Rao, Co-founder of KYC Hub. The war in the Ukraine brought a slew of sanctions from across the globe, creating a spider’s web that continues to be recast, is both complex and powerful, and gets added to and changed all the time. What’s more, if any part of the web is damaged or…
Preparing for a Period of Regulatory Change
Murray Campbell, Business Consultant at AutoRek, considers how the compliance regime for UK financial services firms is changing and how outsourcing can help firms manage the regulatory burden. In recent years, the UK financial services industry has found itself with an opportunity to redefine the compliance landscape. Brexit has allowed the UK to break away…
Overbond Partners with MTS and Releases New AI-Driven Margin Optimisation Model
Overbond, the API-based credit trading automation and execution service, has entered into a data sharing and redistribution agreement with MTS BondsPro, the all-to-all fixed income trading platform. By partnering with MTS BondsPro, Overbond will enhance its AI-generated fixed income data feeds and automated trading solutions by integrating an additional 10 million price updates daily, across…
Data Quality and Management Crucial to Effective ESG Analysis
Analytics are helping financial institutes mine crucial insights from ESG data that’s helping to guide their decision-making processes. Analyses that can surface investment and hedging strategies, shape risk positioning and streamline regulatory compliance all work best when those datasets are properly managed. But ingesting information and making it useable remains a fundamental challenge, especially because…