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Options Partners with Code Willing to Offer New Quantitative Trading Service
Trading infrastructure provider Options Technology has partnered with data management company Code Willing to offer a new quantitative trading service intended to help clients better control and reduce their data analysis costs. The solution adds Code Willing’s data cleansing, organising, and cross-referencing capabilities with Options’ global network, infrastructure and managed services. Aimed at quantitative investment…
Knowledge Graph Technology – A Game Changer for Data Management in Capital Markets
Early identification of use cases that provide a focal point for the implementation of knowledge graphs is essential to successful projects, according to a panel of experts speaking at a recent A-Team Group webinar. The webinar discussed the benefits and pitfalls of implementing knowledge graphs, including how to build, sustain and maintain them, use cases,…
Persefoni Sees Real-Time Emissions Data Service as Game Changer
Carbon accounting startup Persefoni is building out an emissions auditing platform it says will give real-time visibility into companies’ climate risks. The platform will immediately add data from each corporate transaction and event, giving investors a minute-by-minute account of their portfolio companies’ emissions, Arizona-based Persefoni said. Its climate management and accounting platform (CMAP) uses artificial…
FINBOURNE Brings Data Management Expertise to Creation of Consolidated Tape
FINBOURNE Technology is bringing its data management expertise into play as it joins the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets’ (AFM) regulatory sandbox to drive creation of a Consolidated Tape Provider (CTP) as noted in the EU’s MiFID and MiFIR frameworks. As regulatory and industry discussion and consultation on a consolidated tape intensifies and raises…
A-Team Extends, Expands and Releases 2021/2022 Edition of Regulatory Data Handbook
Don’t miss the latest edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a publication dedicated to helping you gain a full understanding of regulations related to your organisation from the details of requirements to best practice implementation. The 2021/2022 handbook covers more than 40 regulations, providing you with a detailed description of each regulation including its…
IQ-EQ Acquires Greyline Partners to Boost US Presence
In its fourth US acquisition in two years, London-based regulatory technology specialist IQ-EQ has bought Greyline Partners, which offers outsourced governance and regulatory compliance solutions for the alternative asset sector, including hedge funds, venture capital, private equity and high net-worth investors. Greyline’s recently launched GCM Advisory outsourced CFO, finance and accounting business is also included in…
Can You Prove Risk-Based e-Comms Surveillance Outcomes Have Merit?
By Robert Houghton, Founder, CTO and Technical Evangelist at Insightful Technology. The elephant in the room whenever a discussion turns to risk-based surveillance is the fact that many Compliance Officers do not have complete confidence in their data. There are currently no parameters from the regulators of the financial sector to permit risk-based surveillance, yet…
SFDR: Dilemma of Shakespearean Proportions Looms Amid Scope Three Preparations
Financial institutions putting compliance processes in place for the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations may be reminded of Claudius’ dilemma in Hamlet. “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions,” the usurper king bemoans as he contemplates an avalanche of challenges to his authority. As Shakespeare’s antagonist watched events piling relentlessly…
ICE Expansion of ESG Service to More Bonds Taps into Growing Trend
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has extended its ESG data coverage to two million fixed income instruments as demand for sustainable investments outside of equities gathers pace. The New York-based company said it had broadened its Environmental, Social and Governance Reference Data product because the fixed income market was relatively underserved for sustainable finance participants. The service…
DANIE Consortium on Course for Legal Entity Status, Additional Data Sharing Apps
The DANIE consortium is close to confirming a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a group of large global banks that will define the consortium’s participant community, add momentum to the project, and provide a stepping stone towards making DANIE a legal entity that is industry owned and governed. The consortium was formed in late 2019…