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A-Team Webinar to Explore Machine Readable News Integration

Intelligent machine readable news, which turns unstructured news data into actionable insight, and can be used to uncover market trends, identify correlations, evaluate sentiment and inform quant strategies and predictive models, has become a powerful tool in the arsenals of trading and investment firms seeking a competitive edge. While machine readable news feeds typically provide…

Do Proximity and Resilience Have to be a Trade-Off in Trading?

By Mark White, Manager – Financial Markets and Fintech, Telehouse. Are proximity and resilience a trade-off in trading? In the quest for speed and proximity, many banks have services hosted within an exchange. Whether this is as trading or matching engines; to support connectivity for global networks through a point of presence or an access…

New Change FX Selects EOSE to Strengthen Distribution of Crypto Data

New Change FX (NCFX), an authorised benchmark calculation agent regulated by the FCA, has expanded its relationship with EOSE to strengthen distribution of its crypto data offering. EOSE, a specialist in commoditising data assets, will provide NCFX with a team of expert data sales and business development professionals, allowing NCFX to concentrate its resources on…

US Regulatory Reporting: The Data Management Response

Given the rapid pace of change in the US regulatory reporting landscape in recent years, the banking sector is increasingly required to focus on its data management capabilities in order to meet these requirements effectively. At A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit USA virtual conference last month, Kenneth Lamar, Principal Partner at Lamar Associates, moderated a…

Alveo and Cognizant Collaborate on ESG Data-as-a-Service Solution

Alveo and Cognizant have collaborated to offer an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data management solution for financial services firms. The solution comprises data operations and technology services from Cognizant that will support the implementation and management of an ESG Data-as-a-Service solution from Alveo. The aim is to allow firms to operationalise ESG data, integrate…

GoldenSource Integrates ICE ESG Reference Data into its EDM Platform

Enterprise data management provider GoldenSource has begun offering clients ICE Data Service’s ESG Reference Data product integrated with its own ESG Impact offering. New York-based GoldenSource said the tie up, which is already available to customers, would help fill gaps in the global sustainability and governance data record. While ICE’s data has been offered on…

Vendor Strategy: Element 22 Joins the Fast Track Straight Out of the Blocks

Element 22’s ESG data product is among the newest in the industry. Launched in March, ESGi provides buy-side firms with a unique means of connecting directly with corporates to gain insights into their ESG credentials. It didn’t take long for this innovative approach to data gathering to attract high-profile attention. Within just a few months…

Keynote Video: Fireside Chat About Approaches for Delivering your ESG Data Strategy

In case you missed it, here was a great keynote from our speaker Suvrat Bansal, Founder of Stellar Data Labs – and former CDO at UBS Asset Management – discussing how to deliver your ESG data strategy at our recent Data Management Summit Virtual. Watch the replay here. To read in more detail about his…

BNEF to Extend Transition Risk Scores to Metal, Mining Companies

Bloomberg’s BNEF is to extend its climate transition risk scores to cover more industries, the latest addition to the data giant’s growing suite or ESG-focused offerings. The metals and mining industries will now be included in BNEF’s tool, which was launched earlier this year to cover the oil and gas sectors. The transition score service…

MayStreet Adds Full-Depth-of-Book for All US Equity Options Markets to Market Data Lake

MayStreet, the market data technology and content provider, has expanded its Market Data Lake product, adding full support for all US Equity Options data feeds, to augment the company’s existing provision of the OPRA feed. US Equity Options volumes have grown significantly in recent years, with record listed option contract volumes in 2020, increasing 52.4%…