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ISS ESG Enhances Biodiversity Tool to Offer Portfolio Report
The sustainable investment arm of ISS STOXX, ISS ESG, has enhanced its biodiversity assessment product with a new portfolio report, and has expanded the full solution’s coverage to over 17,000 companies. ISS ESG’s Biodiversity Impact Assessment Tool (BIAT) Portfolio Report add-on enables investors to compare a portfolio’s biodiversity risk and impact against a benchmark, and is…
TRG Screen Acquires Xpansion to Strengthen Reference Data Usage Management Capability
TRG Screen, a provider of enterprise subscription spend and usage management software, has increased its commitment to reference data management with the acquisition of Xpansion, a TRG Screen partner and vendor of cloud-based solutions for reference data usage monitoring in the financial services industry. The acquisition follows investment by Vista Equity Partners in TRG Screen…
Duco Names Michael Chin as CEO, Former CEO Christian Nentwich Remains as Board Member
Duco, an SaaS provider of AI-powered data automation, has named Michael Chin as CEO with immediate effect. He succeeds the company’s founder Christian Nentwich, who steps down as CEO after a tenure of over 10 years but remains as a board member. Duco was acquired by Nordic Capital in 2021 and has since accelerated growth…
S&P Global Market Intelligence Integrates Nikkei News with S&P Capital IQ Pro Platform
S&P Global Market Intelligence has integrated Nikkei’s news offering with the S&P Capital IQ Pro (CIQ Pro) platform. The redistribution deal is part of an ongoing partnership struck in 2022 and provides S&P Capital IQ Pro users with insights on financial markets, economies, regulation, company developments, and emerging business trends in Japan and Asia-Pacific (APAC)….
Bloomberg Releases GenAI-Powered Earnings Call Summaries
Bloomberg has released AI-Powered Earnings Call Summaries, the company’s first generative AI (GenAI) product for terminal users. The tool enables users to decipher complex financial information and quickly extract key insights on topics addressed by corporate management teams, such as guidance, capital allocation, hiring and labour plans, the macro environment, new products, supply chain issues,…
Real Assets Popularity Spurs Need for Infrastructure ESG Data
BlackRock has bought the world’s largest independent infrastructure asset management company, underlining growing investor thirst for data on real assets. Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) was bought for US$12.5 billion by BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager. GIP manages investments in infrastructure projects that include contributors to net-zero efforts, such as water and waste amenities, energy…
Bloomberg and Kaiko Expand FIGI Cover for Crypto Assets
Bloomberg and Kaiko, a cryptocurrency data provider, have announced that Financial Instrument Global Identifiers (FIGIs) now cover almost 8,000 crypto assets and suggest this makes the FIGI the most widely used open identifier in the space. The companies issued the first series of FIGIs to cover crypto assets in 2021 as a push for standardisation…
Firms in the US Prepare to Meet Compliance Date for UPI in Regulatory Reporting
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has released figures indicating industry readiness for the first jurisdictional compliance date for the inclusion of the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) in regulatory reporting in the US on 29 January 2024. The US is the first jurisdiction to start UPI reporting in G20 derivatives markets with EU EMIR Refit regulations…
ESG Consultancy Growth Driven by Investor Data Demand
A string of sustainability consultancy deals and product launches highlights a growing trend among companies to engage outside help to boost their ESG performance – a trend that a recent survey found is being driven mostly by investors. Last week financial services provider Apex Group launched an ESG advisory and reporting unit called Holtara, built…
Platinum Asset Management Selects NeoXam for NextGen Target Operating Model
Platinum Asset Management, an Australia based global equity manager, is planning to upgrade its data and technology capabilities with NeoXam’s DataHub integrated solutions for investment data, performance measurement, and Impress client reporting. The NeoXam data management platform will be deployed to manage reference, market, and investment data within a single, centralised enterprise repository. This will…