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Snowflake and Salesforce Integration Takes Customer Personalisation to Next Level
Snowflake and Salesforce have extended their existing partnership by integrating Salesforce’s customer data platform (CDP) with Snowflake’s data cloud. The integration allows customers to share data in real time between Salesforce and Snowflake, minimising the risks and costs of traditional data synchronisation methods. The integration will be available in pilot mode in autumn 2022, and…
WCM Investment Management Cuts Reconciliation Time with Gresham Managed Services
WCM Investment Management has cut reconciliation time by two-thirds after tripling assets under management (AUM) over the past three years by using Gresham Technologies cloud-based managed services to aggregate data from more than 55 custodians and reconcile positions, transactions, cash and foreign currencies across 1,500 accounts and 2,500 cash buckets. WCM, an independent fund and…
S&P Global Market Intelligence Adds Onboarding Accelerator to Securities Finance Platform
S&P Global Market Intelligence has integrated the Onboarding Accelerator tool into its securities finance platform. The onboarding solution was initially developed by IHS Markit, which S&P Global acquired in a $44 billion merger completed in March 2022. The Onboarding Accelerator is an automated solution designed to challenge the inefficiencies of manual processes used by borrowers…
Vendor Strategy: ICE Builds on Exchange, Mortgage Success to Grow in ESG
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is seeking to establish itself as a leading provider of sustainability data, leveraging the information-generating potency of its market venue, clearing house and mortgage businesses. The Atlanta and New York-based company’s recent acquisition of a number of climate data services, however, underlines its plans to expand its multi-asset ESG information offering. From…
‘Plainspoken’ Morningstar ESG Portal Seeks to Clear Confusion for Retail Investors
Financial research giant Morningstar has launched a “plainspoken” ESG service to help the growing army of global retail investors navigate the sustainable finance landscape. The Chicago-based company’s Investable World is a free data-enriched web portal that walks users through the key concepts, assets and investment strategies that form the backbone of the sustainability sector. It…
Alveo Expands Relationship with FactSet to Offer Data-as-a-Service
Alveo has expanded its relationship with FactSet, which added FactSet ESG content to Alveo’s data management platform, with a collaboration that combines the companies’ data and data management capabilities to provide customers with solutions that integrate FactSet content into workflows and databases. The collaboration is designed to minimise time needed to onboard new data sets…
Data Management Summit New York will Discuss How Cloud Can Unleash the Value of Data
Cloud-based data management is winning converts with its ability to free financial institutions from often rigid and siloed architectures that can stunt innovation and erode the value of digital transformation. It also reduces dependency on on-premise and data warehouse-based architectures, giving firms the scale and power to make their data work harder and deliver greater…
Denominator Helps Finbourne Plug the DEI Gap for Conscientious Investors
Anders Rodenberg, chief executive of social metrics and data provider Denominator, responds with his own question when asked why diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) considerations should matter to investors. “Is it right that an asset manager who gets half their money from women should invest in companies that don’t have a single woman on its…
ESG Data Industry Welcomes Latest UK Disclosure Guidance
New ESG data recommendations by the UK’s accounting watchdog have been welcomed by leading data providers and users, who said the guidance provides a clear pathway to better sustainability disclosures. The Financial Reporting Council’s FRC Lab said its guidance on the production of ESG data was necessary because the sustainability data space was “less mature”…
Real-time and Always on: The Benefits and Challenges of Perpetual KYC
Monitoring risks to companies during the onboarding of clients can be time-consuming and costly. Nevertheless, it’s an essential effort, demanded by regulators and expected by stakeholders who want to ensure their investments are protected. By streamlining the process, the impacts of know-your-customer (KYC) monitoring on corporate bottom lines and productivity can be reduced. Technology has…