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Data is Holding Back ESG Sleeping Giant Africa
Africa is shaking off its reputation as an ESG backwater. Major index compilers now offer ESG equities indexes, governments are encoding sustainable finance regulations and green investments are rolling in. Holding back the development of a flourishing sustainable finance market in this ESG sleeping giant, however, is the absence of good quality ESG data. While…
DSB Opens Applications for Membership of Technology Advisory Committee
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) is calling for additional members to join its Technology Advisory Committee (TAC). Successful applicants will take part in the next term of the TAC, which starts in October 2022. To apply, send a covering email to the TAC Secretariat at DSB.TAC@ANNA-DSB.com, along with a copy of your CV. The application…
Challenges and Opportunities of Internal Self-Service Data Solutions
The concept of internal self-service data solutions is gaining traction as financial institutions and corporations see value in the data sets they generate through their business activities. That said, harnessing the data to provide valuable insights for internal business teams can be a challenge. One approach is to adopt a self-service data delivery model that…
Why ESG Data Is the Key to Connecting Next Generation Investors
By Marion Leslie, Head of Financial Information, Member of the Executive Board, and Executive Board Lead for Sustainability at SIX Group. Last year saw record inflows for ESG in passive investing, as $391 billion poured into ESG ETF assets, up nearly 100% from 2020 and ten times as much as in 2017, according to Statista research. There is…
UK Turns Focus on ESG Data for Pension Funds
Pension fund managers and asset owners in the UK have become the focus of a number of government initiatives to address ESG data challenges facing the industry. The most recent is a taskforce set up by the nation’s Department for Work and Pensions that aims to identify reliable data and metrics on social factors affecting…
OS Climate Launches Free Tools it Hopes Will Transform ESG Decision Making
Competitors have become collaborators in a project that has created free tools to help financial institutions and other organisations gauge the sustainability performance of companies and assets. Banks, including BNP Paribas, and asset managers, such as Allianz, have contributed to the OS-Climate project, which aims to increase the easy availability of technology to help with…
Cboe Global Markets Selects Snowflake for Next Leg of Journey to Cloud
Cboe Global Markets is working with Snowflake to migrate its corporate data and analytics from on-premises systems to the cloud. The adoption of Snowflake’s data cloud continues Cboe’s journey to cloud and is expected to transform the company’s data and analytics infrastructure into a modern cloud architecture, bringing speed, scalability, and efficiency to its handling…
FactSet Collaborates with CID to Strengthen AI Capabilities for Clients
FactSet has teamed up with AI software specialist CID to build a joint data lake for the financial services industry. The data lake merges unstructured public web content with FactSet’s structured content sets, along with optional third-party and client content, into vast entity relationship graphs. The aim of the multi-year collaboration is to provide FactSet…
Moving from Legacy Systems to an Interoperable Future – Why Innovation is No Longer Big Bang
In this Q&A, Stephen Collie, head of sales engineering at FINBOURNE Technology, discusses the core data management challenges paralysing the buy-side today, and explores the critical role of a Modern Financial Data Stack and incremental innovation in the transition to an interoperable future. Q: Stephen, given FINBOURNE’s work with organisations across the global investment community,…
ICE Broadens its ESG Suite With Urgentem Acquisition and Geospatial Tool
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is positioning itself as a full-service ESG data and analytics provider with two recent substantial investments. The Atlanta, Georgia-based financial infrastructure giant has bought climate risk data provider Urgentem for an undisclosed sum and unveiled its latest geospatial data offering for mortgage and other structured finance investors called ICE ESG Geo-Analyzer. The investments…