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Iceberg Data Labs Confident its Model is Filling ESG Gaps
There’s no doubting Matthieu Maurin’s confidence in his company’s ESG data model. The founder and chief executive of Iceberg Data Labs, a fast-growing ESG data start-up that has netted clients such as Euronext, Aviva and HSBC in just four years of operations says it is solving for a range of challenges that keep chief data…
Bloomberg Collaboration with Google Cloud Increases Access to Data And Analytics
Bloomberg continues to invest in cloud data access with an offering that enables customers of Google Cloud to accelerate their data strategies through the integration of Bloomberg’s cloud-based data management solution, Data License Plus (DL+), with BigQuery, Google Cloud’s fully managed, serverless data warehouse. The collaboration also allows mutual customers to access Bloomberg Data License…
ICE Launches Global Sanctions Monitoring Service
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has launched a sanctions monitoring service to help financial institutions comply with the increasingly complex landscape of global sanctions. The new service leverages ICE’s extensive data offering, cross-referencing and linkage capabilities to identify securities, entities and groups targeted by sanctions programmes. ICE’s sanctions data covers financial and economic restrictive measures against entities…
GoldenSource Releases Market Risk Factor Data Standard, Eases FRTB Compliance
GoldenSource, a provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and Master Data Management (MDM) solutions, has created a market risk factor data standard. Called Curve Master Definitions, the standard seeks to provide investment banks with a single risk factor taxonomy for market rates required to price OTC derivatives, including the storage and aggregation of industry standard…
Snowflake Unifies Data and Extends Governance Capabilities in Data Cloud
Snowflake has eliminated data silos from Data Cloud by unifying data in a single data foundation that is secured by the company’s Horizon governance model. It has also enhanced Data Cloud to allow users to bring AI and app development directly to their enterprise data. “Snowflake’s latest innovations ensure that customers have the ability to…
Investor Concern as Companies Found to be Ill-Prepared for ESG Data Assurance
Many companies lack the policies, skills and systems to ensure the ESG data they pass to investors and regulators is accurate and clean, according to a new survey. Just one in four companies questioned by KPMG in its inaugural ESG Assurance Maturity Index said they were confident they could provide assurance on their data, a…
Snowflake Cortex Simplifies Route to Deriving Value from Generative AI
Snowflake has unveiled Snowflake Cortex, an innovative managed service designed to simplify how organisations derive value from generative AI. The service provides access to large language models (LLMs), AI models, and vector search functionality in the Snowflake Data Cloud, and includes serverless functions that help users accelerate analytics and build contextualised LLM-powered apps within minutes,…
Rimes Releases Data lakehouse Designed to Provide Insights from Diverse Data Sources
Rimes has released the Rimes data lakehouse, a service that combines the advantages of a data lake and a data warehouse to enable asset managers and owners to quickly access structured and unstructured data and derive valuable insights from diverse data sources. The lakehouse comprises an advanced data storage, processing and distribution platform delivered as…
ICE Chief Development Officer Chris Edmonds Steps Up to Lead Fixed Income and Data Services Business
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has named Christopher Edmonds, currently chief development officer, to succeed Amanda Hindlian and lead the company’s Fixed Income and Data Services (FIDS) business. FIDS is the company’s second largest business segment and was founded on ICE’s October 2015 $5.2 billion acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation. Edmonds has held several roles at ICE…
ANNA Introduces ISINs to Identify Crypto Assets
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and the Digital Token Identifier Foundation (DTIF) have reached a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will allow phased introduction of new ISINs to identify crypto assets. This is expected to optimise and automate more comprehensive data sets within the ISO standard registries operated by ANNA and DTIF. The…