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DSB Publishes Final Report on 2023 Industry Consultation Covering ISIN and CFI
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has published its 2023 industry consultation final report covering 2024 service provision of the OTC International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) and Classification Financial Instrument code (CFI). The report summarises feedback on the introduction of a security operations centre and provides insight into industry perspectives on the implementation of a revised…
ISSB Rules Hailed for Bringing Data Clarity, Comparability
The first fruits of the International Sustainability Standards Board’s (ISSB’s) 18 months of work hammering out a set reporting rules that could be applied globally has been welcomed by participants in the financial data and technology industries. The body’s first two sets of disclosure standards, described as “ground-breaking” by the board’s chair Emmanuel Faber, have…
Finastra, Green RWA Launch Free-to-Use Climate Risk Tool in Development Sandbox
Finastra has lent its FinTech expertise and capabilities to an initiative that’s building a model to help banks boost their resilience to climate risks. The London-based company has devised an interface that enables financial institutions, regulators and the public to access the Climate-Extended Risk Model (CERM) risk framework. Users, by their participation, also contribute ideas…
Snowflake and NVIDIA Offer Capability to Build Customised Generative AI Applications
Snowflake and NVIDIA have partnered to allow businesses to build customised generative AI applications using their own proprietary data within the Snowflake Data Cloud. The partnership is based on NVIDIA’s NeMo platform for developing large language models (LLMs) and GPU-accelerated computing and will enable enterprises to use data in their Snowflake accounts to build custom…
Datactics Makes Data Assets More Valuable with Renewed Augmented Data Quality Solution
Datactics has released the first phase of its renewed Augmented Data Quality (ADQ) solution including an enhanced user interface and a host of new and improved machine learning (ML) microservices to automate data quality activities. The solution also eliminates time and the need for technical knowledge when addressing data quality issues by democratising data quality…
GoldenSource Offers Native App to Accelerate Data Onboarding and Analytics in Snowflake Platform
GoldenSource is finalising a Snowflake Native App that will be available alongside the company’s data warehouse schema in the Snowflake Data Share. By moving the GoldenSource schema into the Snowflake cloud data platform, dispersed datasets can be mapped together, delivered in an easy-to-understand format, and sliced and diced by market participants within Snowflake. This should…
Debut ISSB Standards May Usher New Era of More, Better ESG Data
Next week, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is due to release the first of its proposals for non-financial disclosures, an event that could usher a new era for ESG data and reporting. The ISSB’s creation by the IFRS Foundation at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, two years ago offered the promise of a global framework…
ESMA Data Strategy Proposes More Tech, Less Cost in Reporting Compliance
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its data strategy for 2023 to 2028. Key agenda points include using new data-related technologies, reducing reporting compliance costs for regulated entities, enabling effective use of data at both EU and national level, and making data more broadly available to the public. The five-year ESMA data…
ESG Standards and Taxonomies Remain in Flux, But Order is on the Horizon
The ways in which financial institutions receive the data they need to fulfil their ESG targets is determined largely by the regulations that cover its disclosure and dissemination. This year will be an important one in this respect; changes to existing regulations, and the taxonomies on which they are based, are due to be introduced,…
Informatica’s Intent to Acquire Privitar Extends Data Access, Privacy and Governance Capabilities of Cloud Platform
Informatica is planning to extend the data access management, privacy and governance capabilities integrated in its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) following disclosure of its intent to acquire Privitar. Privitar was founded in London in 2014 with a mission to help data-driven organisations address data privacy concerns and comply with legislation such as General Data…