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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)…
A-Team Group Names Winners of Data Management Insight Awards – USA 2022
A-Team Group announced the winners of its inaugural Data Management Insight Awards – USA 2022 today. The awards were presented by highly respected capital markets participant Predrag Dizdarevic, partner at data management consulting and solutions provider Element22, after the close of A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit New York and during a lively drinks reception. These…
Webinar Preview: Getting ESG Data Right to Fully Leverage Power of Analytics
The growing body of ESG data is posing a few challenges to financial institutions as they try to make sense of the tsunami of sustainability information entering their systems. Data managers are turning to sophisticated analytical tools including artificial intelligence (AI) to help them clean, digest and utilise the data. How they do that and…
Progress in Taxonomy and Standards Alignment Hampered by Data Gaps
Financial institutions and corporations are pressing on with efforts to align with ESG taxonomies and there is confidence that reporting rules introduced in recent years are bringing more private companies into the fold. But more than two years after the European Union’s “green” Taxonomy was implemented experts say there are still yawning gaps in the…