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Everything You Need to Know About How to Get Value from Unstructured Data
Unstructured data has huge potential to help financial institutions better understand their customers and markets, gain greater business insights, and develop revenue generating products. It also raises significant challenges, including managing vast volumes of data, sorting the wheat from the chaff, ensuring data quality and consistency, and protecting data privacy. Despite these challenges, firms are…
M&G Investments Engages Bloomberg DMS to Acquire, Manage and Distribute Multi-Sourced ESG Data
M&G Investments is working with Bloomberg’s cloud-based Data Management Services (DMS) to host the acquisition and management of ESG data, and enable integration of the data into its investment processes. Bloomberg DMS will onboard and consolidate M&G Investments’ ESG data providers to its private, cloud-based solution, enabling more control, providing a holistic view of the…
BankInvest Selects IHS Markit EDM Managed Service to Support Next Phase of Growth
Danish asset manager BankInvest has selected IHS Markit’s enterprise data management (EDM) managed service as part of a transformation based on an increase in market share over recent years and designed to upgrade operations systems to support the next phase of growth. The firm already uses the vendor’s corporate actions solution. The IHS Markit EDM…
EU Asserts ‘Strategic Autonomy’ in Post-Brexit Regulatory Landscape
With Brexit now ‘done’, the EU is taking stock of its regulatory environment as it settles down to life without the UK and its all-important financial capital London. The EU will spend 2022 setting out its regulatory stall as the UK seeks to differentiate itself from its former stablemates. What’s emerging is a multi-pronged regulatory…
Pico Acquires Redline to Boost Market Data, Connectivity Offerings
Trading technology, data and analytics provider Pico has agreed to acquire trading and market data software specialist Redline Trading Solutions, for an undisclosed sum. The deal will bring together Pico’s global ultra-low latency infrastructure and network, underpinned by Corvil Analytics, with Redline’s high-performance software solutions for market data, execution and order routing. The combined offering…
The View in 2022 – Another Pivotal Year in ESG
In many ways 2021 was a watershed year for ESG. The European Union’s implementation of Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) began in earnest and other regulators around the world – especially in the UK – indicated they may soon follow suit. The COP26 United Nations climate summit later in the year provided a galvanising impetus…
Five Trading Tech Trends to Watch in 2022
The last couple of years have seen some significant shifts in the financial markets trading technology landscape. The impact of the global pandemic has forced many firms within the sector to fundamentally reassess their operational environments, and to accelerate their digitalisation and cloud initiatives. Crypto and digital assets have continued their forward march, as interest…
2022 – The Year of Transition, Turning Data Management Theories into Practical Solutions
Welcome to Data Management Insight 2022 and some of the hot topics we will be exploring as capital markets participants continue to mainstream data as a resource to improve business value, extend digitalisation, drive up efficiencies, foster innovation, and last but not least, improve regulatory compliance processes. It will not all be plain sailing, however,…
Can Prime Brokerage Open the Door to Institutional Access to Digital Assets?
By Martha Reyes, Head of Research, Bequant. It’s surprising how crypto markets have been repeating the same evolutionary cycles of infrastructure building as the traditional markets. As more established investors enter the crypto space, digital asset prime brokers are rising to the challenge to offer technology-driven solutions to many of the same challenges faced by…
FactSet to Acquire CUSIP Global Services as S&P Global Facilitates Merger with IHS Markit
The holidays brought good news for CUSIP Global Services (CGS) with FactSet making a definitive agreement to acquire the company from S&P Global in a cash deal valued at $1.925 billion. Late last year, the European Commission said S&P Global would have to divest CGS to gain regulatory approval for its planned $44 billion merger…