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Vendor Strategy: Snowflake Forecasts ESG Growth as It Breaks Down Silos
Snowflake’s Financial Services Data Cloud was launched in the middle of last year with the aim of providing financial institutions access to its cloud-native data resources. From the get go, the US-based company knew that ESG would be a major – and growing part – of its offering. Now Rinesh Patel, Head of Industry, Financial…
CUSIP Global Services Sees Interest Grow in Verified Green Muni Bonds
American regulators’ demands that municipal bond issuers show proof of their ESG claims is being underlined by rising inquiries to one of the leading providers of muni sustainability data. Cusip Global Services (CGS) has seen a steady rise in client referrals to debt flagged as green on its platform since the US company began including…
FD Partnership with Microsoft Promises KX-Based Apps Designed to Help Firms Innovate and Grow
FD Technologies, parent of KX and its kdb+ time series database since June 2019, has made a strategic partnership with Microsoft to expand the reach of its KX Insights streaming data analytics platform as organisations look to modernise data infrastructure for real-time decision making. The partnership includes two elements – KX has agreed to work…
Snowflake Acquisition of Streamlit Will Accelerate Data Apps Development
Snowflake has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Streamlit, provider of an open source framework that enables developers and data scientists to build and share data apps quickly and iteratively, without the need to be an expert in front-end development. The company says more than 1.5 million apps have been built using the framework. Following…
The Hokey Cokey Guide on how to Achieve M&A Operational Complexity
By Neil Vernon, Chief Technology Officer at Gresham Technologies. ‘You put your left arm in, your left arm out, in out, in out, you shake it all about’, so say the words of the old party song. It is a similar approach to how financial institutions have merged over the past decade. You put your…
Slow to Start, Banks are Buying into ESG Data Companies
Goldman Sachs has become the latest major bank to buy an interest in an ESG data company as lenders worldwide grow their sustainable finance businesses. The New York-based banking giant’s US$75 million investment in building energy management firm Gridpoint follows a number recent similar deals, including last year’s purchase of data-driven ESG fintech platform OpenInvest…
‘Start Early’ Warning as European ESG Regulations Loom
The coming months will be crucial for financial institutions’ preparations for European ESG regulatory compliance, with new rules due to snowball this year prompting warnings that firms should begin locking in their data provisions. Data vendors are responding by unveiling new products to help clients navigate the region’s developing regulatory landscape. But while the piecemeal…
Mining the Value of Data through Agile Data Governance
Agile data governance frameworks are presenting financial institutions with valuable new ways to use their data and respond swiftly to the changing demands placed upon it. They are also offering deeper insights into firms’ own operations, helping them to identify and eliminate emerging risks, shortening time to market and streamlining decision making. While the common…
Alveo Accelerates Data Deployment to Workflows and Applications with Delta Data Integration Capability
Alveo, has extended its commitment to open source technologies with the release of Delta, a data distribution capability. Delta uses the latest cloud latest cloud technologies to accelerate the deployment of market data sets into business user workflows and business applications, and is an integral part of Alveo’s data management suite, which includes Prime data…
Sanctions Against Russia Mean Screening is More Vital than Ever
By Collette Allen, Client Services Director, SmartSearch. Firms should take action to review their due diligence and sanctions screening procedures to avoid falling foul of extensive new and emerging sanctions against Russia. The wide-ranging sanctions imposed so far by Western nations include restrictions against individuals, entities and their subsidiaries, and the introduction of legislation to…