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Index Firm Solactive to Add New ESG Services Beyond Indexing through Minerva Buy Out
German benchmarking company Solactive has bought a British stewardship solutions provider, enabling it to offer proxy voting and stewardship services to asset managers and owners. Solactive said it bought Minerva Analytics because growth in demand for ESG-related financial services had surged after it acquired a 33 per cent stake in the firm in 2019. While…
Alveo Plans Acceleration of New Products Following Investment from Symphony Technology Group
Alveo is changing hands again after reaching a definitive agreement to receive a majority investment from Symphony Technology Group (STG), a private equity partner to companies in data, software, and analytics. Alveo expects the STG investment to accelerate roll out of new products, further developing its managed data services and Data-as-a-Service offerings. The STG investment…
Etrading Hires Senior Execs to Expand Regulatory Data Services
Etrading Software has hired two senior executives to expand its regulatory data services. The company most recently released the Digital Token Identifier, an ISO standard identifier designed to help market participants and public authorities unambiguously identify digital assets. Joining Etrading are Liz Callaghan as chief strategy officer for regulatory data services, and Catherine Sutcliffe as…
How to Solve the Operations Talent Crisis
Is your organisation short of operations staff and finding it difficult to boost numbers? If it is, you are not alone, with financial services firms in the grip of the Great Resignation and job seekers casting a more favourable eye over creative business opportunities than back-office operational roles. Still more, is business growth at your…
LSEG and Reuters Extend Financial and Market News Services for LSEG Customers
LSEG and Thomson Reuters have extended their long-term partnership on news and information with a number of shared commitments designed to enhance the value of financial and market news services offered to LSEG customers. The companies’ partnership started in 2018 and makes LSEG the exclusive distributor of Reuters news to the financial community under a…
LIBOR Transition: The Countdown Is On
Ian Sams, European Head of Product at TraditionDATA. Financial institutions and corporates have fewer than six months to get ready for one of the biggest changes to financial markets in history. On 30 June 2023, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) will cease publishing the London interbank overnight rate (LIBOR) dollar-denominated tenors. Market participants must move to alternative risk-free…
CHOM Capital Rolls up its Sleeves to Get the Data that Ratings Don’t
For managers of large-cap assets, obtaining the right ESG data is difficult. For those, like CHOM CAPITAL, that manage European equities with a particular focus on small caps, the hurdles are even greater. The oft-cited gaps in the data records of managers of blue-chips can be gaping chasms for firms whose portfolios are crammed with…
ESMA Recommends Digital Token Identifier for Pilot of Distributed Ledger Technology Regulation
ESMA has recommended use of the ISO standard Digital Token Identifier (DTI) for the pilot of its Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) regulatory regimen. DTIs are issued by the DTI Foundation, a non-profit division of Etrading Software, with a view to bringing standardisation to digital asset and crypto markets. The DLT pilot will apply from 23…
S&P Global Market Intelligence Adds ChartIQ to Capital IQ Pro Platform
S&P Global Market Intelligence has acquired ChartIQ, a provider of data visualisation and charting, to enhance its S&P Capital IQ Pro platform, digital investment solutions provider Markit Digital, and other workflow solutions. Prior to the S&P Global Market Intelligence acquisition, ChartIQ was part of Cosaic, a workflow solution provider offering data visualisation and desktop technology…
Despite Downturn, Financial Services Firms Must Hold the Line on Data Management Investments
By Justin Llewellyn-Jones, head of capital markets for North America at Broadridge. As financial services firms craft strategies for what’s shaping up to be a challenging 2023, they must hold strong on one essential point: don’t cut back on investments in data management. Over the past several years, many financial services firms have launched initiatives…