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SIX Moves into Aggregation Space with Sustainalytics Partnership
Swiss financial data expert SIX has made a significant step into the data aggregation space with the signing of a deal that will see it include Sustainalytics content in the company’s ESG offering. Company data from Sustainalytics, a Morningstar company, will be incorporated into SIX’s regulatory reporting service, particularly the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and Taxonomy….
A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2022
A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2022. The awards, now in their second year, celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. This year’s platinum award winners include Bloomberg, oneZero,…
Enterprise Data Management Migration to Cloud Gains Popularity
Enterprise data is following market data to the cloud as financial institutions seek greater efficiency and reduced costs by moving non-core data management processes off premises, while retaining mission critical apps and data in-house. They are also looking to democratise the data as its importance to the business is recognised. These tasks are difficult to…
GLEIF Names Rubix Data Sciences as First LEI Validation Agent in India
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) expects use of the LEI to expand in India following the appointment of Rubix Data Sciences as the first Indian-based validation agent within the Global LEI System. The validation agent will support increasing regulatory demand for organisations to obtain LEIs, as well as SMEs that find it difficult…
The Transformation of Data Management
By Justin Llewellyn-Jones, head of capital markets for North America at Broadridge. Complexity in data and data management is like a fault line running through the organizations and strategies of capital markets firms. It consumes resources, introduces dangerous risks, and limits firms’ ability to capitalize on artificial intelligence and other new technologies. For that reason,…
Ukraine Conflict Puts New Light on ESG and Indexes
The war in Ukraine has shone a spotlight on ESG investing as nations, companies and financial institutions weigh their response to the conflict. ESG index and ratings setters are under pressure to redraw their exclusion frameworks and also adjust their coverage in light of a welter of sanctions placed on Russian companies and the organisations…
Get Ready for A-Team Group’s Announcement of This Year’s Innovation Award Winners
Excitement is mounting in anticipation of next week’s announcement of the winners of A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2022. The awards, now in their second year, celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. This year’s…
DTCC Replaces Benchmarks Service with ITP Data Analytics for Operational Performance
DTCC has updated its Institutional Trade Processing (ITP) service with ITP Data Analytics, a service including analytical tools that allow broker/dealers and investment managers to measure and compare their operational performance against counterparties, industry standards and peers. ITP Data Analytics replaces DTCC’s legacy Benchmarks service. It consumes underlying daily transaction activity from DTCC’s post-trade central…
Encompass Plans Global Growth Acceleration Following £25 Million Funding Round
Encompass, a provider of automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, has completed a capital raise of £25 million. The funds will be used to accelerate global growth, particularly in the US where the company opened its first office in New York in October 2021, and in Europe where an office was recently opened in Amsterdam….
Migrating Data Management to the Cloud – What Can the Financial Sector Do to Meet the Challenge?
By Mark Hermeling, chief technology officer at Alveo. Financial services firms are increasingly moving their data management ecosystems to the cloud. This has huge implications for the sector as highlighted in a recent Market Research Future report that projects the financial cloud market will hit the $52 billion mark by 2028, growing at an impressive compound annual…