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India’s NJ Asset Management Selects Bloomberg Solutions for Enterprise-wide Digital Strategy
NJ Asset Management, one of India’s newest asset management companies, has adopted Bloomberg AIM and Bloomberg Vault to enable its enterprise-wide digital strategy across the investment workflow. The company is data driven and follows a rule-based fund management style to reduce human bias. Bloomberg AIM, an order and investment management solution, will be used with…
Trade Finance Innovation Opens Window for Supply Chain ESG Data
Capturing supply-chain sustainability data is elusively difficult but nevertheless is necessary to manage and mitigate ESG risk and also required as new regulations oblige companies – and their investors – to declare the impact their logistics services are having on the environment. The challenge has its root in the huge multitude of companies that comprise even a single supply chain. Mostly…
Auditing Body Proposes ESG Data Standards to Match Those for Financial Reports
Data assurance services are forecast to be in huge demand as ESG reporting regulations expand and overseers seek to strengthen confidence in the information used by financial institutions and other stakeholders. Big accounting firms and smaller assurance providers alike are girding for new rules that will require companies to have their regulatory data audited in…
ECB Launches Consultation on Guide Urging Banks to Improve Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting
The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched a public consultation covering its Guide on Effective Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting, noting that ‘adequate capabilities in this area are still the exception, and banks have to improve their risk data aggregation frameworks, also in light of the BCBS principles’. Ultimately, banks are expected to step up…
FCA Makes Digital Sandbox Permanently Available, Invites Data Providers to Apply to List Data on the Platform
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will make its Digital Sandbox available permanently from 1 August 2023 following two successful pilots. The aim is to open up the platform to a broader range of innovative businesses, start-ups and data providers. The sandbox is a testing environment that enables the FCA to support firms at the early…
Harrington Starr Publishes Financial Technology Salary Survey 2023/24
Harrington Starr has released its Financial Technology Salary Survey 2023/24 – and the news is both good and bad. While the company describes the financial technology market as ‘in the grip of a generational opportunity driven by game-changing market forces’ and ‘extraordinary advances in tech’, particularly in AI, digital assets, cloud and data, firms that…
FactSet Acquires Data Management Innovator idaciti
FactSet has acquired idaciti, an innovator in data structuring and collection technology. The acquisition expands FactSet’s multi-year investment program to digitally transform its content collection infrastructure. It also accelerates time-to-market for delivering data sets. Founded in 2015, idaciti applies a taxonomy-first approach to structuring information from company disclosures, regulatory filings, and proprietary document repositories. It…
DSB Combines UPI and OTC ISIN Data in User Acceptance Testing Environment
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has extended Unique Product Identifier (UPI) User Acceptance Testing (UAT) into the OTC ISIN UAT environment, enabling OTC ISIN users to start testing combined OTC ISIN and UPI workflows. Users of the OTC ISIN UAT environment can develop and test changes to systems to incorporate the UPI as part of…
Graph Technology Supports Financial Institutions with Indirect Emissions Reporting
Solution Architect Dr. Michael Moore, Ph.D. outlines how graph tech supports financial institutions working to meet Scope 3 carbon reporting requirements. Under the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, financial services institutions will soon be tasked to estimate and report their carbon emissions, not just ‘Scope 1 and 2’ activities, but new Scope 3 activities that extend…
New Law May Have Quietly Improved ESG Data Outlook for UK Investors
A little-noticed insertion into the biggest shakeup of UK financial law in generations is expected to bring greater clarity to the way ESG data will be reported and government’s role in green finance. The Financial Services and Markets Act (2023) – known as the FSMB, its initials when the law was a bill awaiting royal…