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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…
Encompass Plans Corporate Digital Identity Platform Following Acquisition of CoorpID and Blacksmith KYC
Encompass Corporation, a provider of real-time digital Know Your Customer (KYC) profiles, has acquired CoorpID and Blacksmith KYC from ING to develop a platform that solves the critical challenge of identification and verification of corporate and institutional clients. ING will be a stakeholder and development partner to Encompass and will use the platform in the…
Northern Trust Begins New Year with New ESG Offering
Northern Trust enters 2024 with newly acquired ESG capabilities courtesy of its recent investment in private-market data start-up Novata. The US-based asset servicing and investment management provider bought a minor stake in Novata late last year and has begun bedding in its data management solution into its own offering. Less than two months since the…
GRI CEO Sees Innovation Lab Easing ESG Data Pain Points
If Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) chief executive Eelco van der Enden had any doubts that a Sustainability Innovation Lab (SIL) it recently co-founded in Singapore would attract interest, he only had to wait a few moments into its launch to find out. No sooner had a chat bot been activated for interested parties to inquire…