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How Well Does Your Company Really Know its Sanctions Chain?
By Jay Rao, Co-founder of KYC Hub. The war in the Ukraine brought a slew of sanctions from across the globe, creating a spider’s web that continues to be recast, is both complex and powerful, and gets added to and changed all the time. What’s more, if any part of the web is damaged or…
Data Quality and Management Crucial to Effective ESG Analysis
Analytics are helping financial institutes mine crucial insights from ESG data that’s helping to guide their decision-making processes. Analyses that can surface investment and hedging strategies, shape risk positioning and streamline regulatory compliance all work best when those datasets are properly managed. But ingesting information and making it useable remains a fundamental challenge, especially because…
As Biodiversity Climbs the ESG Agenda, ISS Unveils Nature-Linked Products
Institutional Shareholder Services’ (ISS) has launched a suite of nature- and natural resources-linked products as biodiversity protection and risk mitigation rise in prominence on among investor concerns. ISS ESG’s Biodiversity Impact Assessment Tool and the latest addition to its ESG indices, the Freshwater Index Series, are intended to give financial institutions better visibility into the…
Exchange Data International Releases Readable Corporate Action Notices
Exchange Data International (EDI) has released Readable Corporate Action Notices (RCAN), a solution designed to enable personnel in front- and middle-office buy-side firms to read corporate action notices in the same way as they read news. RCAN is based on machine learning and was developed by EDI. It covers 45 corporate events, including dividends, mergers…
How to Get Ahead on the Data Governance Journey
Data governance that delivers benefits to the business needs to pull together people, process and technology by embracing data ownership, managing metadata, ensuring data quality, and continually improving automation. These are just some of the guidelines for successful data governance set out by a panel of experts at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in…
Depicting Crypto’s Data Dilemma Before the Next Winter Cold Bites
By Berta Ares Lombán, Head of Digital Assets Financial Information at SIX. The crypto winter, when a basket of leading cryptocurrencies lost around $1.9 trillion in value, put a much-needed spotlight on the long-term future of digital assets. While this is not the first time cryptocurrencies have seen significant adjustments to their valuations, the fallout…
ACA to Give Clients ‘Deep ESG Data Relationship’ With Ethos Acquisition
US-based compliance adviser to global asset managers ACA Group believes it can provide its clients with the critical ingredient they need to establish their ESG programmes – a deep understanding and relationship with sustainability data. The New York-headquartered company has acquired data specialist Ethos ESG, which provides data and ratings across the sustainability spectrum. Ethos’…
Optimism Marks ESG Data Sector but Challenges Remain
Clean and accurate ESG data is core to financial institutions meeting their sustainability ambitions and obligations, but ensuring they have enough data in a useable form is proving a stumbling block. This, and other shortcomings of ESG data, was the subject of a fascinating conversation at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit New York….
DTCC Partners Snowflake to Improve Data Access, Sharing and Usage Across Services
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is partnering Snowflake to improve how data is accessed, shared and leveraged across a number of its services. Long term, using the Snowflake Data Cloud, DTCC aims to expand market transparency, reduce risk, and provide greater operational efficiency. The partnership extends an existing relationship between the companies and…
Orion Wins A-Team Group Award for Best Graph Database Solution for Data Management
Silicon Valley-based Orion Governance has won the award for Best Graph Database Solution for Data Management in A-Team Group’s inaugural Data Management Insight Awards – USA 2022. These awards celebrate leading providers of data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across North America. Orion’s data management solution, Enterprise Information Intelligence Graph (EIIG)…