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ESG is Magnifying Data Management Challenges
Data management strategies necessarily have to change with markets, with trading trends, with technology and with a host of other inputs that inform the ever-changing financial landscape. Without effective management, data is useless. If it can’t be accessed, if it isn’t clean, if it is out of date or if it can’t be found then…
GLEIF Extends LEI Validation Agent Scheme with Sparkasse Bank Malta and Diligencia
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has added two validation agents to the Global Legal Entity Identifier System, bringing the global total of agents able to provide their clients with LEIs to 10. The additions are Sparkasse Bank Malta, a European bank offering corporate and private banking, investment, and custody services; and Diligencia, a…
KYC Hub Launches OpsFlow for Automated Client Onboarding
Due diligence and compliance automation specialist KYC Hub has released a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) based platform to streamline client onboarding across a wide range of industries including financial services. OpsFlow aims to reduce complexity in the onboarding process by offering access to hundreds of global verification types through a single solution, allowing workflow and…
Bloomberg Applies New Industry-Implied Estimate Model to Expand Emissions Coverage
Bloomberg has expanded its coverage of corporate carbon emissions using a new estimates model that is providing greenhouse gas datasets on about 40,000 more companies. The US data giant said carbon emission estimates would now be offered on 100,000 companies, providing transparency into their Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. Bloomberg said the broader coverage…
Refinitiv Releases Low-Code/No-Code Solution for Digital Customer Onboarding
Refinitiv, an LSEG business, has introduced a secure and personalised digital customer onboarding solution that enables financial firms to verify an individual’s identity information and documents in real time, conduct remote biometric checks, and cross reference a series of disparate data sets, such as residential addresses and sanction lists, to verify bank accounts. The onboarding…
Broadridge Automates Corporate Actions Managed Through Euroclear CREST
Broadridge Financial Solutions has fully automated corporate action and dividend events managed through the Euroclear CREST platform. The service includes event creation, instruction management, and payments processing and settlement, and is designed to reduce risk associated with human error and provide cost savings for clients. Members of both CREST and Broadridge Global Asset Servicing are…
Alveo Integrates QuantLib into Ops360 to Deliver No Code Curve Builder Capabilities
Alveo, a provider of cloud-based market data management services, has extended its Ops360 data operations solution with the integration of QuantLib for advanced analytics. The functionality allows any appropriately permissioned business user to drag and drop input data sets into functions and set parameters to derive data and kick off the calculation of curves and…
S&P Sustainable1 Physical Risk Scores Offer Social Impact Window
E, S and G is generally regarded in aggregation, but data products and services usually measure each individually. S&P Global Sustainable1 business, however, believes the geolocated company and climate data combined in its new physical risks metrics are providing a means of measuring the conjunction of the first two of ESG’s pillars. The global rating…
Vendor Strategy: ISS Translates Governance Data into Action
Of the three pillars of ESG, the third is often considered the most difficult to influence or change, even when informed with the most accurate data. Purpose-driven investors may not always have the time, resources or voting power to formulate an action plan that will enable them to carefully examine whether a constituent of its…
Bloomberg Employs ML and Industry-Implied Models to Increase Carbon Emissions Data
Bloomberg has increased its carbon emissions dataset to cover 100,000 companies. The dataset consists of company reported carbon data and estimates based on either a machine learning smart model or Bloomberg’s newly developed industry-implied model accompanied by a Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) reliability score. “Greater precision in Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon…