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SIX wins award for Best Data Provider to the Sell-Side in A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2023
SIX has won the award for Best Data Provider to the Sell-Side in A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2023. These annual awards recognise leading providers of data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants in Europe. SIX’s data provision to the sell-side was selected as an award winner by A-Team Group’s…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of its Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2023
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2023. The awards recognise both established solution vendors and innovative newcomers providing leading data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across Europe. This year’s awards included more than 30 categories of data management solutions and services ranging from Best…
UK’s SDR Puts Data and Governance at Heart of Compliance
Asset managers and manufacturers of financial products sold in the UK have been told they must have adequate data, governance and technology in place to comply with the national regulator’s sustainable disclosure recommendations (SDRs), published this week. The requirement from Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) puts data, metrics and ratings at the centre of the highly…
Informatica Provides Trusted Data for Amazon Bedrock Generative AI Service
Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management provider, has extended its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer support for the company’s Bedrock generative AI service and integration with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Access Grants. Amazon Bedrock, which AWS announced in April 2023 and made generally available in September 2023, is designed to help…
Clarity AI to Expand ML and GenAI Product Development on AWS
Clarity AI has expanded its presence in the cloud to take advantage of new capabilities that will enable it to better develop artificial intelligence (AI) products and services. The US-based sustainability tech company will increase its presence on AWS and harness more of its tools to develop and test applications that Clarity AI can then roll out…
Rimes Opens AI Lab to Drive Development of AI Enabled Data-Driven Workflows
Rimes has opened an AI Lab under the leadership of Theo Bell, the company’s newly appointed head of AI product. The lab provides a dedicated environment where Rimes’ product engineering team can collaborate with clients to prototype new ideas and applications using proven AI technology. Acknowledging that AI-enabled data-driven workflows are no longer a luxury, but…
SimCorp Releases Cloud Native Investment Analytics Platform
SimCorp has released a cloud native investment analytics platform offering a real-time attribution solution designed to meet growing demand for accurate and real-time performance analytics. This is the company’s first service on its Investment Analytics Platform, with solutions related to ESG attribution and risk attribution planned as the next set of releases. The platform provides…
Bloomberg ESG Tool Assesses Potential Impact of Company Business on UN SDGs
Bloomberg has launched a tool that investors can use to assess the potential impact of a company’s business on any of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is a response to increasing demand for objective SDG-related data and provides data mapping and materiality assessment to offer more clarity to investors seeking to…
FCA Criticism of Funds’ SDR Approach Stirs Controversy
The UK regulator has criticised fund managers for failing to abide by interim guidance on ESG disclosures just days before it’s expected to announce details of a formal regulation. But the comments have been met with frustration and caution within the ESG data and technology community, with one practitioner arguing that the Financial Conduct Authority…
Data Benefit of CSDDD at Risk as FIs Seek Exclusion, Experts Warn
The anticipated exclusion of financial companies from the EU’s sustainability due diligence law has stung ESG professionals, with some arguing that an opportunity to improve data quality would be missed. The EU’s executive body, the European Commission (EC), is reportedly ready to cede to requests from parts of the financial sector to be left out…