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Refinitiv Adds Country SDG Scores to ESG Data Arsenal
Refinitiv’s launch of measures assessing the sustainable development performance of individual countries is the latest of a series of services targeted at the burgeoning ESG investing space. The addition allows Refinitiv to offer asset managers and servicers scores that indicate the degree to which funds, corporations and now countries meet the UNs Sustainable Development Goals…
New Change FX Selects EOSE to Accelerate Distribution of Data and Analytics
New Change FX (NCFX), an independent administrator of regulated FX benchmarks, has partnered EOSE to strengthen distribution of its FX data and TCA tools. EOSE will enable NCFX to concentrate its resources on developing core business strategies by providing the company with a team of expert data sales and business development professionals to ensure new…
S&P Global Acquisition of IHS Markit Creates Financial Data and Analytics Powerhouse
S&P Global’s $44 billion acquisition of IHS Markit will create a financial data and analytics powerhouse capable of challenging Bloomberg’s market leading $11 billion revenue and towering over the proposed $27 billion acquisition of Refintiv by the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The combined company will benefit from increased scale, a wider product portfolio and a…
ESG: The Next Frontier for Financial Services
ESG is everyone’s favourite topic right now, but the mass of different regulations, standards and reporting requirements can be confusing. Last week at the RegTech Summit Virtual 2020, we were delighted to speak with Beate Born, Head of Strategic Projects, Investment and Trading Platforms at UBS Wealth Management, to discuss how firms could best address…
MarketAxess Acquires Regulatory Reporting Hub From Deutsche Börse
Electronic trading giant MarketAxess, which also provides market data and post-trade services for the global fixed income markets, today completed the long-awaited acquisition of Regulatory Reporting Hub, the regulatory reporting business of Deutsche Börse Group. MarketAxess acquired the business through Trax, its wholly owned subsidiary in the Netherlands, on November 30, 2020. The deal was…
FINOS Launches Open RegTech Initiative, Highlights Open Source Advantages for RegTech Innovation
The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), has launched a new ‘Open RegTech’ initiative, which aims to expand the successful open collaboration model built between financial institutions, fintech and technology firms to regulators and RegTech companies. Announced at the organization’s annual Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) held virtually in conjunction with the Linux Foundation earlier this…
Electronification in Fixed Income – Where is it Headed?
By Mike O’Hara, Special Correspondent. As we approach the third anniversary of its implementation date, the impact of the EU’s MiFID II continues to be felt around the world as global players adopt key measures as a form of best practice. Part of its wide remit to recast the mould for European institutional financial markets…
Refinitiv Partners Quod Financial to Add Sell-Side OMS to Trading Solutions
Refinitiv has plugged a gap in its sell-side trading line-up by making an agreement with Quod Financial to offer a multi-asset, sell-side OMS powered by Quod and using Refinitiv’s data feed solutions and connectivity to the sell-side community. Beyond the OMS, the companies have plans to build additional data-driven, automated trading technologies incorporating machine learning…
How to Tackle the Challenges and Gain the Opportunities of Unstructured Data
Unstructured data is coming into its own as financial institutions deploy machine learning to drive business insights out of the data, and use the data to develop more holistic risk profiles. Use cases such as these demonstrate the huge potential of harnessing unstructured data, but there are also associated challenges that must be addressed. Ahead…
A-Team Group Introduces 2021 Innovation Awards
Here at A-Team Group we have been working hard on plans to celebrate innovative projects and teams with the launch of our A-Team Innovation Awards. The awards are designed to reward teams that have found innovative ways to make use of new and emerging technologies to solve challenges at financial institutions in capital markets. The…