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ESG Insight Webinar Report: A Bumpy Regulatory Road Ahead but Riches Will Follow
ESG has placed companies within a “chaotic” new world of regulatory responsibility but getting sustainability right through data and technology will reward them and their investors with healthier bottom lines and larger returns. That was the message that rang loud and clear from A-Team Group ESG Insight’s first expert-led ESG webinar of the year, held this…
ESG Data and Tech Summit Report: The Art of Getting Data Right
ESG has become an integral, complex part of financial institutions’ workflows, making it crucial that they get their data and technology provisions right. But in this fast-changing part of the data ecosystem, what constitutes “right” isn’t easy to define. At A-Team Group’s second ESG Data and Tech Summit London last week, leading practitioners from the…
Regulatory Environment for Investment Research Facing Uncertainty, Substantive Study Says
Investment research provision in the US, Europe and the UK is facing more uncertainty as the market awaits significant changes to the regulatory landscape, according to a study of the current state of broker research pricing, supply and market share by Substantive Research. According to Substantive, MiFID II’s implementation in 2018 increased the focus on…
ING Deploys Quantexa for KYC, AML Investigations
Dutch bank ING Group is rolling out Quantexa’s analytics platform to strengthen risk detection and investigative capabilities in support of its global KYC and AML programmes. ING’s investigative teams will use Quantexa’s AI and advanced graph analytics capabilities to develop more effective and efficient KYC and AML measures, by connecting customers and counterparties in order…
A-Team Group Names Winners of ESG Insight Awards 2023
A-Team Group announced the winners of its ESG Insight Awards 2023 after the close of today’s lively and informative ESG Data and Tech Summit in London. The awards recognise both established solution vendors and innovative newcomers providing leading ESG solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants. This year’s ESG Insight Awards included over 20…
Lenders Divided on Addressing ESG Integration: Survey
Banks worldwide are split on how they manage ESG and climate risks, according to a new report by consultancy Bain and Company. The study of 55 International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers (IACPM) members with total assets of more than US$40 trillion found that 65 per cent them hadn’t created a primary role that is…
Yuanta Futures Taps Eventus for Trade Surveillance, Becomes Firm’s First Taiwanese Client
Yuanta Futures, a subsidiary of Taiwan-based Yuanta Financial Holdings, has chosen Eventus to provide trade surveillance for its futures and options business. This move signifies the first Taiwanese client for Eventus, a global provider of trade surveillance, market risk, transaction monitoring and algorithmic monitoring solutions. Ranking number one for futures and options market share, profitability,…
SymphonyAI’s Sensa-NetReveal Launches Sensa Copilot, First Generative AI-Based Financial Crime Assistant
West Coast AI specialist SymphonyAI’s Sensa-NetReveal division has launched what it claims to be the first financial crime detection solution using generative AI. The Sensa Copilot system is an AI assistant that collects, collates and summarises financial and third-party, improving financial crime management and potentially bosting investigator productivity by up to 70%. According to SymphonyAI,…
Fincapital Deploys iDenfy for KYC, AML in Customer Onboarding
Fincapital Partners, a fintech offering online banking and wealth management across Sweden, Switzerland and Lithuania, has deployed an AI-enabled identity verification and fraud prevention platform from iDenfy to handle the KYC and AML aspects of its customer onboarding process. The implementation is aimed at instilling confidence in the Fincapital Partners’ team, allowing them to provide…
Threadneedle Street Points to Importance of Scenario Analysis
Sarah Breeden, the Bank of England’s executive director for sustainability, last week called on all stakeholders to redouble efforts to curtail global warming, singling out the banking and insurance sectors as key pillars of change. In her grim assessment of the lack of progress in the achieving global climate targets so far, she outlined four…