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ActiveNav Discusses How to Eliminate ROT and Find Value in Unstructured Sensitive Data
Sensitive data is a sensitive subject. When it is breached, fallout for the firm involved spans from reputational damage to a dent in revenue. In worst case scenarios, small companies may not be able to recover. For large financial institutions, a breach of unstructured sensitive data can be a huge reputational and financial blow as…
Concern Remains as Delay, Revision and Data Hang Over FRTB
The proposed Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) was formulated to protect banks against a repeat of the devastation caused to the sector during the 2008 financial crisis. Initially suggested in 2012, it was drawn up in 2016 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), and revised in 2019 with a view to…
Broadridge Bets Dashboard Will Bring Clarity to Ratings Confusion
The ESG assessment space has occasionally been referred to as the Wild West of finance for the rapidity and seemingly uncoordinated nature of its growth. Rating and scoring services have come under particular scrutiny because of the widely different results each offers for the same entity. Regulators, particularly in the European Union and the United…
Asset Managers Are Rising to the ESG Disclosure Challenge
Asset managers are playing a more prominent role in developing the ESG data sourcing and reporting space, even as regulations make it more difficult for them to honour their own disclosure obligations. With responsibility for the careful investment of trillions of dollars of capital, managers are becoming proactive in seeking data from corporates and identifying…
Similarweb Digital Intelligence Gives Funds Insight into Company Performance and Market Trends
Similarweb, a Tel Aviv, Israel headquartered provider of digital intelligence for hedge funds and investment banks is building its brand in Europe on the back of success in the US where its alternative dataset is used by hundreds of fund managers including most of the big names, and investment banks including JP Morgan and Citi…
GLEIF Publishes vLEI Governance Framework to Support Digital Identities for All Legal Entities
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has published its planned verifiable LEI (vLEI) Ecosystem Governance Framework and is working with capital markets regulators on how the vLEI could be a means of securing filings and reports. It has also presented the framework for review by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the LEI, which…
The Eight Best Data Lineage Providers in 2022
Data lineage traces data from source to destination, noting every move the data makes and taking into account any changes to the data during its journey for full traceability. It is critical to regulatory compliance and data governance, and offers numerous business and operational benefits. The level of granularity and scope of the audit trail…
ADC Looks to Fill Gaps in Banks’ ESG Data Competencies
Data science specialist Amsterdam Data Collective (ADC) has grown by helping companies realise the value of data in achieving specific goals, such as building capital position models for banks and improving customer experiences for retailers. But the Dutch company has now also set its sights on filling ESG knowledge gaps in financial institutions’ risk-management processes. Last…
Biodiversity Data Growth Forecast as Investors Look to Nature
It’s been called the ESG elephant in the room, an environmental risk that’s been all too obvious but largely overlooked in the race to net-zero. But advances in ESG data modelling has sparked a gathering interest in biodiversity risk. RepRisk and QuantCube are trialling new satellite-based solutions to collect data on the impacts of economic…
Datactics Builds New Solutions and Business on Basis of Flagship Self-Service Data Quality Platform
Datactics is heading into 2022 with the release of additional solutions on its flagship self-service data quality platform, a strong business performance in 2021, and new hires and offices to match. To find out more about the company’s plans for 2022 and highlights of 2021, we caught up with CEO Stuart Harvey and head of…