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Vendor Strategy: Snowflake Forecasts ESG Growth as It Breaks Down Silos
Snowflake’s Financial Services Data Cloud was launched in the middle of last year with the aim of providing financial institutions access to its cloud-native data resources. From the get go, the US-based company knew that ESG would be a major – and growing part – of its offering. Now Rinesh Patel, Head of Industry, Financial…
CUSIP Global Services Sees Interest Grow in Verified Green Muni Bonds
American regulators’ demands that municipal bond issuers show proof of their ESG claims is being underlined by rising inquiries to one of the leading providers of muni sustainability data. Cusip Global Services (CGS) has seen a steady rise in client referrals to debt flagged as green on its platform since the US company began including…
FD Partnership with Microsoft Promises KX-Based Apps Designed to Help Firms Innovate and Grow
FD Technologies, parent of KX and its kdb+ time series database since June 2019, has made a strategic partnership with Microsoft to expand the reach of its KX Insights streaming data analytics platform as organisations look to modernise data infrastructure for real-time decision making. The partnership includes two elements – KX has agreed to work…
Snowflake Acquisition of Streamlit Will Accelerate Data Apps Development
Snowflake has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Streamlit, provider of an open source framework that enables developers and data scientists to build and share data apps quickly and iteratively, without the need to be an expert in front-end development. The company says more than 1.5 million apps have been built using the framework. Following…
Everything You Need to Know About the EU Whistleblowing Directive
It is widely acknowledged that employees who report misconduct within their organisations play a key role in exposing breaches and preventing similar incidents from happening in the future. However, potential whistleblowers are often discouraged from reporting their concerns or suspicions for fear of retaliation. In this context, the European Union deemed it necessary to provide…
Top Cloud-Based Trading Environments
In a time when the drive to shift to cloud-based trading environments is at an all time high due to the covid-19 pandemic, it is useful to look at which firms offer the best solutions. A cloud-based trading environment offers flexibility and business continuity by allowing traders to work from anywhere. Gone are the days…
The Hokey Cokey Guide on how to Achieve M&A Operational Complexity
By Neil Vernon, Chief Technology Officer at Gresham Technologies. ‘You put your left arm in, your left arm out, in out, in out, you shake it all about’, so say the words of the old party song. It is a similar approach to how financial institutions have merged over the past decade. You put your…
Bloomberg AIM Integrates with Elwood Technologies for Crypto Trading
Bloomberg has added access to Elwood Technologies’ cryptocurrency trading platform via its Bloomberg AIM order management system (OMS). Through the integration, Elwood’s institutional cryptocurrency trading capabilities will combine with Bloomberg’s data, analytics and workflow tools, enabling users on the AIM platform to capture and manage their crypto investments alongside their other assets. Elwood will adopt…
Riding the Retail Trading Technology Revolution
Retail trading in financial markets has enjoyed remarkable growth in recent years. Retail investors were estimated to account for between one-quarter and one-third of all trading in US equities in 2021. Among the enablers of this Retail Revolution has been the ubiquity of digital trading apps and zero-commission accounts. This has been aided by easier…
LSEG Adds PMS, OMS, EMS via $325 Million Tora Acquisition
Continuing on the acquisition trail following its $27 billion purchase of Refinitiv, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has agreed to acquire PMS, OMS and EMS vendor Tora for $325 million, in an all-cash transaction. Tora says the deal will enable Tora to expand and grow its clientele while investing in global infrastructure, product development and…