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No Question Too Small for Alt. ESG Data Startup Alygne
A startup that lets consumers check sustainability data on the companies and products that they patronise has also begun feeding its content to asset owners and investors. San Francisco-based alternative data provider Alygne emerged from “stealth mode” last week with two products: a mobile app for consumers and a data feed into FinTech Finastra’s investment…
Bloomberg Uses Native Connectivity to Make Data License and B-PIPE Content Accessible to Microsoft Azure Clients
Bloomberg has released a service providing high-performance data to Bloomberg Enterprise Data customers using Microsoft Azure. The service offers access to both real-time trading data and reference, pricing, regulatory and point in time historical datasets via native connectivity to the Azure Virtual Network (VNet). The service includes content from B-PIPE, which was initially made available…
Scope 3 Data Remains Weak Spot for ESG Disclosure
International Earth Day, which will be marked on Saturday, comes around as the ESG disclosure space becomes increasingly preoccupied with solving one of its thorniest problems: gathering quality Scope 3 emissions data. The subject has gathered pace as regulators around the world, and in particular the US’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), grapple with ways…
Bloomberg Updates Tool to Navigate SFDR Moving Target
The perils of building tools to help investors navigate fast-changing regulations were highlighted last week as Bloomberg unveiled enhancements to its product for assessing companies in accordance with the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). No sooner had the updated data-packed technology been made available to the company’s clients than the EU’s leadership body, the European…
Florent Fabre Promoted to CEO at NeoXam, Delpla Becomes Non-Executive Chairman
NeoXam has made a senior leadership promotion with Florent Fabre, formerly group managing director, moving to the role of CEO. Outgoing CEO and NeoXam founder Serge Delpla takes the position of non-executive chairman. Fabre’s promotion coincides with a recent €100 million investment agreement between NeoXam and Paris headquartered private equity company Eurazeo, which became the…
GLEIF Extends LEI Mapping to OpenCorporates Global Database of Legal Entity Data
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has linked LEIs to corresponding records in the OpenCorporates global database of legal entity data, one of the largest open databases of companies in the world. With LEIs natively available in the OpenCorporates database, cross-referencing between the datasets will facilitate a range of compliance, surveillance, and due diligence…
DSB Opens Unique Product Identifier User Acceptance Test Environment
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has opened its Unique Product Identifier (UPI) User Acceptance Test (UAT) environment and associated Client Onboarding Support Platform (COSP). Go-live of the UPI UAT environment follows publication of mandates to report the UPI in the EU, UK, US and Australia, with additional jurisdictions expected to follow. The nine month UAT…
Alveo Extends ESG Data Offering with Morningstar Sustainalytics Content
Alveo has integrated Morningstar Sustainalytics’ ESG content into its cloud-based data mastering and data quality Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution. Combining the firms’ data and cloud data management capabilities provides customers with solutions that speed up integration of Sustainalytics’ content into clients’ workflows and business processes, and help business users self-serve. Content onboarded from Sustainalytics includes Sustainable…
Bloomberg Wins A-Team Group Award for Most Innovative Data Standards Initiative
Bloomberg has won the award for Most Innovative Data Standards Initiative in A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2023. The awards celebrate innovative solutions, projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. Bloomberg’s data standards initiative, the Financial Instrument…
ESG Ratings Providers See Calls for Regulation Snowball
The knives are out for ESG rating firms. Often criticised for their lack of consistency in assessing companies’ sustainability and ESG performances, ratings providers are now the subject of regulatory scrutiny with UK officials last week saying such companies were failing green markets. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the opacity of the methodologies of…