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Mackenzie Investments Selects Bloomberg to Manage ESG data
Mackenzie Investments, a large Canadian investment management firm, has selected Bloomberg to manage its ESG data. The data vendor’s cloud-based Data License Plus (DL+) ESG Manager will be used to host the acquisition, management and publishing of multi-vendor ESG data, allowing the firm to implement ESG investing approaches more efficiently and develop more sophisticated ESG-focused…
FinScan Combines Data Quality Experience with Technological Expertise to Deliver Agile AML Solution
FinScan has combined experience in data quality with technological expertise in screening to provide an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) solution designed to help financial institutions develop more efficient AML programmes that generate fewer false positives and support better detection of true alerts. The company is part of Pittsburgh-based Innovative Systems, which was founded in 1968 and…
Euronext Launches ‘First of-its-kind’ Exchange-based ESG Tool
Europe-wide market provider Euronext is ready to launch a “first of its kind” ESG tool providing comprehensive data, free of charge, to the market. The company’s My ESG Profile is now available to listed companies, before its public release scheduled mid-November. Issuers are currently in the process of reviewing the data collected by Euronext, and…
Canoe Intelligence Releases Data Innovation Hub for Alternative Investments Market
Canoe Intelligence, a financial technology company providing data management for the alternatives industry, has released the Canoe Data Innovation Hub and Canoe Asset Data Design Partnership, initiatives that go hand-in-hand to offer greater data granularity at both fund and asset level data. The solutions respond to client demand for access to asset-level data to solve…
Derivatives Service Bureau Hits Deadline of 16 October 2023 with Go-Live of UPI Service
The Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB’s) Unique Product Identifier (UPI) Service went live as planned on Monday 16 October 2023, enabling firms to create and search for UPIs. UPI reporting starts in major derivatives markets in 2024, with US rules applying from 29 January 2024, the EU EMIR Refit regulations from 29 April 2024, followed by…
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,…