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‘Idiosyncratic’ Data Keeps Lazard ESG Tech Chief on His Toes
Lazard Asset Management’s (LAM) director of ESG data and analytics Gregory Van Droogenbroeck received a baptism of fire when he shifted to the investment giant from technology behemoth Bloomberg. The day he joined the company Russia invaded Ukraine, catalysing an existential rethink of some of the assumptions that had been built into the ESG project….
Surveys Highlight Two Sides of ESG Market Evolution
Regulatory demands are expected to help boost spending on ESG data to a record this year but a significant part of the institutional space remains concerned that those same rules will limit the choice of sustainable investments. Two recent surveys suggest that investors continue to champion sustainable markets. One, by management consultancy Opimas estimates that…
How to Deliver a Successful Data Strategy – And Show Value
Delivering a successful data strategy and proving its value can be challenging for CDOs, but there are approaches that can ease the burden, improve outcomes, measure success, engage employees across the organisation, and raise the profile of the CDO office. Discussing ‘How to deliver a successful data strategy – show me the value!’ during a…
5 Recurring Themes from Comms Surveillance (Q1-2024)
Communications surveillance came under focus in two sessions at the recent A-Team Group Trading Technology Summit in London in February. During a morning Keynote session, Andrew Delaney, President and Chief Content Officer at A-team sat down with Paul Liesching, Chief Revenue Officer at 1Global to discuss “Navigating the Complexity of Communications Surveillance.” An afternoon panel…
Rimes Releases AI-Powered Data Lakehouse Copilot for Natural Language Insights
Rimes has released a Data Lakehouse AI Copilot that provides natural language insights and enables users to accelerate performance by providing investment managers with faster, streamlined access to specific data sets they need. The solution eliminates the need to write code as its natural language answers enable users to quickly transfer datasets and apply them…
Snowflake and NVIDIA Expand Collaboration to Accelerate AI Productivity in Data Cloud
Snowflake and NVIDIA have expanded an existing collaboration by bringing together the full stack of the NVIDIA accelerated compute platform with Snowflake’s Data Cloud data foundation and secure AI. The result, a combination of computing power and infrastructure designed to accelerate AI productivity. The expansion builds on Snowflake and NVIDIA’s previously announced NVIDIA NeMo integration…
BNY Mellon Enhances AI Capabilities with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Deployment
BNY Mellon, in a significant step towards advancing its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, has announced the deployment of an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, becoming the first major bank to implement such advanced AI infrastructure. This move was facilitated by a strong partnership with NVIDIA Professional Services, allowing for a faster-than-usual setup of the SuperPOD, which includes…
Best Practice Approaches to Trade Surveillance for Market Abuse
In 2023, Openmarkets Australia was fined the largest ever penalty imposed by the?Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) of $4.5 million. Among other observations, the regulators noted that Openmarkets had not appropriately calibrated its post-trade surveillance system and that this resulted in an unmanageable volume of alerts, most of which were not reviewed. “This outcome…
Smarsh Augments Comms Surveillance
As regulators in the UK, EU, and US continue to come down hard on firms failing to maintain adequate control of business conducted over digital communications channels, Smarsh’s acquisition of TeleMessage in February aims to broaden the company’s offerings in the digital communications compliance and intelligence space. Says CEO Kim Crawford Goodman. “Together with TeleMessage, Smarsh…
EU Parliament Approves Landmark Artificial Intelligence Act
The EU Parliament has approved the Artificial Intelligence Act, marking the world’s first regulation of AI. The regulation establishes obligations for AI based on its potential risks and level of impact and is designed to ensure safety and compliance with fundamental rights, democracy, the rule of law and environmental sustainability, while boosting innovation. The act…