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ESG Data. A New Master?
By Mark Davies, Partner, element22. Master data management has long been an unsung hero. Understood by a handful of technologists and passionate data evangelists, while delivering consistency and control across complex organisations. Regardless of industry, those organisations that invest in mastering the data that really matters to their organisation reap substantial ongoing dividends. It is…
GoldenSource Sets Out Renewed Agenda Including Product Strategy and M&A Programme
In May 2022, after more than 30 years in the data management market, GoldenSource was acquired from previous equity investors by middle-market private equity firm Gemspring Capital. The acquisition marked a step-change for the company, with its agenda now including cooperation with Gemspring on core operations such as products, managed services, development, and sales and…
Datactics and Solidatus Integrate Data Quality and Lineage Tools to Manage Data Quality in Motion
Datactics and Solidatus have made a ground-breaking technology alliance that integrates the former’s data quality and latter’s data lineage tools to manage data quality in motion. The integration helps data practitioners visualise where data quality issues are occurring, understand the business impact of poor data quality, and quickly locate and fix quality issues wherever the…
ESG Information Overreach May be New Data Challenge
ESG data management is evolving, with more datasets coming online as new sustainability and social factors are incorporated into financial institutions’ risk-assessment processes. In response, firms may be tempted to invest greater amounts of capital to bring in those new streams of potentially critical information. But some could be over-reaching the capabilities of their operations….
Dig Deeper: Carbon Markets Are Hiding a Gem
New data reveals how carbon emissions can unlock investment in decarbonisation By Jan Ahrens, Chief Executive, SparkChange. There is little doubt global warming presents a catastrophe for humanity, and that it requires unprecedented investment to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. McKinsey estimates $9.2trn per year. When we talk about the financial effects of…
Omba Advisory & Investments Selects FINBOURNE
Omba Advisory & Investments, a London-based investment management firm, has selected FINBOURNE Technology’s SaaS-native modern financial data stack as its operational data hub. The firm selected FINBOURNE after a market review, and will use the vendor’s LUSID PMS and Luminesce for portfolio management and improved data consolidation to help scale investment operations. Omba serves family…
Deutsche Börse Makes All-Cash Offer for SimCorp
Deutsche Börse has made an all-cash offer for SimCorp. It also plans to combine its existing data and analytics subsidiaries Qontigo and ISS (Institutional Shareholder Services) to create an investment management solutions business offering data, index and analytics products, as well as software solutions. SimCorp’s board of directors has confirmed its intention to recommend that…
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…
CUSIP Global Services Enhances Products and Services to Improve Market Efficiency and Transparency
CUSIP Global Services (CGS) has implemented a series of product and service enhancements designed to improve the efficiency and transparency of financial markets. Provided at no additional cost to CGS customers, these improvements include an expansion of the standard CUSIP data field, the introduction of a series of counterparty risk reports, and infrastructure improvements to…
FCA Sets Out Next Stages of Data Strategy
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is advancing its data strategy after publishing an update in 2020, which set out a five-year plan designed to make the FCA smarter in its use of data and analytics. It has also established a joint programme with the Bank of England to transform how it regulates, with the aim…