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Vendor Strategy: BIQH Adds Screening to ESG Data Tool Set
Screening is an effective means of ensuring financial products comprise the companies that suit a fund’s mandate. For ESG it’s been a potent tool for eliminating fossil fuel producers, tobacco companies, arms manufacturers and the gamut of businesses that are anathema to investment products built on the philosophy of doing good for humanity and the…
Data Products: Transforming Fraud Detection in Financial Services
By Suki Dhuphar, Head of EMEA, Tamr. Cybercrime assumes many shapes and forms. As a result, it’s often challenging to identify fraudulent behaviour and subsequently address it. Traditional methods frequently fail to detect and combat illicit activities, leading to financial losses and eroded trust. Yet, even today, one of the most prevalent solutions to enhance…
Webinar Review: How to Develop a Reporting Framework for ESG Disclosure Regulation
Financial institutions have been handed a golden opportunity to grow their business and add value for their customers from an unlikely source – ESG regulators. While banks and investors are under pressure to comply with a slew of new sustainability rules, the process is providing them with a treasure trove of data that can be…
Toronto-Based TMX Datalinx Opens ESG Data Hub
TMX Datalinx, Toronto-based TMX Group’s information services division, has opened an ESG data hub designed to support global clients’ integrating ESG in investment decision-making processes. As well as providing TMX Datalinx real-time and historical data, the TMX ESG Data Hub provides data from external sources including OWL, a fintech transforming how ESG data is gathered,…
J.P. Morgan Expands Fusion to Provide Cloud-Native Custody, Fund Accounting and Middle Office Data to Institutional Investors
J.P. Morgan has added securities services for institutional investors to its data mesh, enabling investors to retrieve investment data held by J.P. Morgan’s custody, fund accounting and middle office services using cloud-native channels including REST APIs, Jupyter notebooks and the Snowflake financial services data cloud. The securities services are available through Fusion by J.P. Morgan,…
Financial Services’ ESG Insights Locked in “Dark Data”: Could AI Help to Surface Them?
Dr John Bates, AI technologist and CEO of SER, explores AI’s latest potential in extracting and making sense of this wealth of ESG intelligence. In 2023, 120bn terabytes of content will be created, captured and consumed by businesses – growing by half as much again by 2025. Locked somewhere within all of that potential business…
Author of Greenwashing Survey Says Data is Needed to Stem the Scourge
A surge in greenwashing in the past year revealed by a new survey has highlighted the need for better data and metrics to help investors nurture the companies and project that will bring about net-zero and other sustainability goals, the report’s author has said. This year’s edition of ESG data science provider RepRisk’s annual greenwashing…
Data Strategy is Changing as CDOs Focus on The Business, People and Processes, and Add a Little Magic
Data strategy has evolved over the past 10 years, but not necessarily in step with new data management technologies, not always in line with the business, and sometimes with little regard to return on investment. A recent CDO panel discussion at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit NYC, discussed these and other issued during a session…
Sales Unplugged: Everything You Need to Know About FinTech Sales – and More
By Michael Walford-Grant They say that in life timing is everything. And so it was that in February 2020, after more than 30 years’ working in sales for financial data management and technology companies, including PolarLake, AIM Software, SunGard and FIS, I decided to start my own sales consultancy. Within a month, the UK was…
EthicsAnswer Creates ESG-Trained AI to Ease Disclosure Pain
A SaaS platform is using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to significantly reduce the burden of sustainability disclosure requests from investors and other stakeholders faced by chief sustainability officers (CSOs). Welsh company EthicsAnswer says its GenAI product will substantially reduce the time it takes for CSOs to complete ESG surveys and will improve accuracy. The tool is backed by a large-language model (LLM) that is trained on more than 46,000 publicly…