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ACA Updates ESG Platform with Greater Private Market Capabilities
Governance, risk and compliance advisory firm ACA Group has updated its ESG data management platform to provide more flexibility to its private investment clients. The New York-based company has retooled the ACA Vantage for ESG platform it launched in 2022 after acquiring ESG data specialist Ethos. The new iteration enables greater configuration of data and…
WeeFin Wins Best Data Management Initiative for ESG in the DMI Euro Awards 2024
WeeFin has won the award for Best Data Management Initiative for ESG in the Data Management Insight Euro Awards 2024. The awards recognise established providers and innovative newcomers who offer solutions that are providing leading data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across Europe. Winners are selected by A-Team Group’s independent, expert…
Broadridge Tradeverse – When a Data Lake is Not a Data Lake
Hugh Daly, Broadridge Financial Solutions’ head of capital markets data and artificial intelligence, is being mischievous when he describes the company’s latest innovation, its Tradeverse data platform. “It must sound very much like Tradeverse is a data lake – if it quacks like a data lake and walks like a data lake, fundamentally it must…
Data Seen as Solution to Weathering Climate Stress
Recent stress tests of European financial institutions’ resilience to climate change have underlined the importance that high-quality data will play in fortifying banks, insurers and other organisations against the risk of transition and environmental losses. The region’s three financial regulators and the European Central Bank said that the results of their one-off “Fit-for-55” analysis found…
UK Budget Puts Corporate Actions Automation Back on the Agenda
By Yogita Mehta, Commercial Product Director – Corporate Actions, Financial Information, SIX. Expectations around the UK budget in October last month have been consistently making headlines since even before its was announced. One area that is expected to be impacted because of the changes announced by Rachel Reeves is market appetite for M&A activity, with…
Denodo says its New Agora Platform is Built to Tame New Data Challenges
Data management services provider Denodo says it has tooled its latest innovation to provide solutions for a four-prong set of new challenges that the changing face of financial services has presented institutions. Agora, the company’s new cloud-based data management platform, addresses the critical needs that the Californian company highlighted in a recent white paper. They…
Buy-Side Faces Structured, Unstructured Data Challenge: A-Team Group Webinar
Buy-side firms are far from satisfied with their present data management strategies and are still struggling to deal with hoary old challenges such as data silos and legacy tech stacks that are inadequate for their modern needs, according to the latest polling from A-Team Group. Only a fifth of respondents feel positively about how they…
Rethinking ‘Cloud First’: Why IT Leaders are Repatriating from Public Cloud
By Stewart Laing, chief executive, Asanti. Since 2013 “Cloud First” has been the guiding mantra for countless IT leaders, promising agility, scalability, and a low barrier to entry. Public cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform have touted their services as one-size-fits-all solutions, offering organisations access to cutting-edge technology without substantial upfront…
ESG Data Tops Executives’ 2025 Shopping Lists
Senior executives at financial institutions expect to direct the biggest boost in their data expenditure plans over the coming year towards ESG information, according to a survey that also found that high-quality data and analytics in all domains is being prioritised for growth. In its third annual Future of Finance survey, Switzerland-based exchange operator SIX also found…
LSEG-D&B Collaboration Underscores Demand for Private Market Data
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has joined a growing list of major vendors and institutions that have launched data products to help asset managers better assess private markets. London-based LSEG has collaborated with private-market specialist Dun & Bradstreet to help its users better identify opportunities and risks within the alternatives space. The partnership comes…