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A-Team Group Announces Winners of ESG Insight Awards 2024
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its ESG Insight Awards 2024. These awards recognise both established solution vendors and innovative newcomers providing leading ESG solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants. This year’s awards included more than 30 categories ranging from Best Regulatory Reporting Solution for ESG to Best ESG Data and Technology…
RepRisk Chief Hails CSDDD as Good for Investor Decision Making
The European Union’s latest piece of sustainability legislation will provide investors with greater transparency into companies’ climate and human rights performance, giving them crucial information on which to make investment and risk decisions, according to a leading figure in the ESG data space. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) will enable firms to present…
Data Suggests ESG Integration Burden is Easing in Private Markets
The ESG integration burden on private markets appears to be abating. Two reports this week suggest that one of the largest investment categories for financial institutions are finding it easier to obtaining the data they need to implement a robust sustainability strategy and that the importance of ESG to portfolio companies is increasing. A survey…
Delta Capita Expands CLM Managed Services Following Acquisition of LSEG Onboarding Solution
Delta Capita, a capital markets consulting, managed services and technology provider, is planning to extend its offer of managed services in client lifecycle management (CLM) following the acquisition of LSEG’s client onboarding solution. The LSEG solution is based on Thomson Reuters’ 2013 acquisition of GoldTier Technologies, a provider of client onboarding software. Thomson Reuters Financial…
NeoXam Adds Lion Global Investors to Growing List of APAC Clients
Another win for NeoXam, a provider of data management, reporting, portfolio management and valuation software, in APAC as it enters a collaboration with Singapore-based Lion Global Investors (LGI) to centralise and optimise the asset management company’s investment data and performance reporting across middle and back-office operations. The company recently secured a deal with Platinum Asset…
BNP Paribas Becomes First EU G-SIB to Join GLEIF Validation Agent Programme
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) continues to build out the Global LEI System (GLEIS) with the addition of BNP Paribas as a Validation Agent. The addition of BNP Paribas marks the first global systemically important bank (G-SIB) headquartered in the EU to join the Validation Agent programme. Most recently, the GLEIF added Nord…
Out with the Rules: Why MDM Never Delivers on its Promise
By Anthony Deighton, CEO at Tamr. Unifying and managing data across an entire organisation is a battle against siloed systems and inconsistent data standards that reduce operational efficiencies, impair decision-making and compromise customer experiences among many other business impacts. That’s why the promise of Master Data Management (MDM) was so attractive when it first emerged….
ESG Space Has Strengthened Under Pressure, Summit Lead Speaker Says
The ESG space has emerged stronger from a bruising year of criticism, with financial institutions and companies alike taking a more considered approach to integrating sustainability considerations into their operations. That is the message from the lead speaker at this year’s ESG Data and Tech Summit London, who also forecasts that vendors and users will…
FCA Greenwashing Rule Raises Questions Over Data Requirements
The UK will implement its own anti-greenwashing rule at the end of this month but some industry participants are concerned that its data requirements are vague and could be misinterpreted by institutions. The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) rule, part of its broader Sustainability Disclosure Requirement (SDR), expects companies to ensure that any sustainability claims made…
FactSet Expands GenAI Offerings with Portfolio Commentary
FactSet, provider of a financial digital platform and enterprise solutions, has expanded its GenAI offerings with Portfolio Commentary. The solution complements the company’s performance attribution capabilities with detailed and source-linked commentary allowing buy-side and wealth managers to understand key drivers of portfolio performance more holistically. Powered by large language models (LLMs), Portfolio Commentary also reduces…