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Ukraine Conflict Puts New Light on ESG and Indexes
The war in Ukraine has shone a spotlight on ESG investing as nations, companies and financial institutions weigh their response to the conflict. ESG index and ratings setters are under pressure to redraw their exclusion frameworks and also adjust their coverage in light of a welter of sanctions placed on Russian companies and the organisations…
Ediphy Working on Fixed Income Consolidated Tape Prototype with 10+ Financial Institutions
UK-based data analytics provider Ediphy Analytics is working with a group of financial institutions to finalise the development of its Consolidated Tape (CT) prototype, with the aim of tendering for the role of official European non-equity Consolidated Tape Provider (CTP) next year. Ediphy says it’s in discussions with more than 10 major institutions across the…
Get Ready for A-Team Group’s Announcement of This Year’s Innovation Award Winners
Excitement is mounting in anticipation of next week’s announcement of the winners of A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2022. The awards, now in their second year, celebrate innovative 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. This year’s…
DTCC Replaces Benchmarks Service with ITP Data Analytics for Operational Performance
DTCC has updated its Institutional Trade Processing (ITP) service with ITP Data Analytics, a service including analytical tools that allow broker/dealers and investment managers to measure and compare their operational performance against counterparties, industry standards and peers. ITP Data Analytics replaces DTCC’s legacy Benchmarks service. It consumes underlying daily transaction activity from DTCC’s post-trade central…
The Modernisation Imperative
In today’s fast-paced financial markets, institutions face a number of challenges. As well as having to cope with shrinking margins and ever-increasing regulatory scrutiny, firms are having to process more data from more sources than ever before, all in an increasingly competitive landscape. With everything moving so fast and changing so often, financial institutions are…
Encompass Plans Global Growth Acceleration Following £25 Million Funding Round
Encompass, a provider of automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, has completed a capital raise of £25 million. The funds will be used to accelerate global growth, particularly in the US where the company opened its first office in New York in October 2021, and in Europe where an office was recently opened in Amsterdam….
Migrating Data Management to the Cloud – What Can the Financial Sector Do to Meet the Challenge?
By Mark Hermeling, chief technology officer at Alveo. Financial services firms are increasingly moving their data management ecosystems to the cloud. This has huge implications for the sector as highlighted in a recent Market Research Future report that projects the financial cloud market will hit the $52 billion mark by 2028, growing at an impressive compound annual…
SmartStream Combines Air, RDU to Offer Comprehensive Transaction Reporting for MiFID II
SmartStream Technologies has combined its SmartStream RDU reference data utility with its SmartStream Air (Artificial Intelligence Reconciliations) solution to create a new offering that provides regulated entities with comprehensive reporting capabilities for MiFID II. The new solution – Transaction Reporting Reconciliation and Reporting Decision Control – aims to address regulators’ growing requirement for completeness and accuracy…
Best Climate Risk Providers
We’re seeing a rapid transition in how the financial markets industry is approaching climate risk. This shift has been advanced by customer preferences, public awareness and, as most pressingly, increased regulatory demand. As new energy sources and technologies emerge, investors must innovate and advocate for a comprehensive climate risk framework. Climate Risk Management models continue…
ICE Partners with Techary to Provide Hardware Procurement and Managed Services
Market infrastructure provider Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has launched a global procurement and managed services solution in collaboration with Techary, a global technology solutions provider. The new service, which will be offered by ICE Global Network (IGN) and supported by Techary, will provide customers with end-to-end hosting, hardware procurement, management and support through one single IGN…