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Sustainable Trading Seeks to Lift ESG Performance of Sell-Side and Buy-Side
A new not-for-profit is seeking to establish ways to improve the ESG performance of the trading systems that keep the finance sector humming. Sustainable Trading wants to find best practices for making trading greener and socially more impactful, while also working out ways to benchmark its performance. The initiative, created by UK-based industry veteran Duncan…
ESG Ratings and Scores May be Coming of Age
ESG credit ratings and scores for companies and financial products have come under sharp focus in the past year as the profile of sustainable finance has risen. They form core components of many financial institutions’ asset discovery and risk-mitigation strategies, offering easily digestible assessments of sustainability risks. They also underpin a multitude of indexes that…
Databricks Lakehouse for Financial Services Differentiates with an Open Source, Multi-Cloud Platform Hosting Use-Case Accelerators
Following the release of Databricks’ Lakehouse for Financial Services, Data Management Insight caught up with Junta Nakai, financial services global industry lead, to discuss the details of the open source, multi-cloud platform that includes use-case accelerators, real-time analytics, and AI, and is designed to help financial institutions modernise and innovate their approach to data. The…
ANNA Plans Implementation of Revised ISO 6166 ISIN Standard in February 2023
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) will implement the revised ISO 6166 International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) standard on 2 February 2023. The revised standard was published in February 2021 and is designed to bring additional clarity and transparency to the identification and reporting of trades through the use of international standards. Highlights of…
GoldenSource Integrates FactSet Truvalue Labs ESG Data into ESG Impact Product
GoldenSource has integrated FactSet content, including Truvalue Labs ESG data, into its ESG Impact product. The EDM solution provider will also be listed on the Open:FactSet Marketplace, a platform providing data applications and workflow solutions for investment professionals. GoldenSource ESG Impact is positioned to handle interlinked reference data, as well as fundamental and ESG data,…
Relaxing ESG Capital Rules is No Good if Data Costs Skyrocket
By Alexander Dorfmann, senior product manager at SIX. Ever get the feeling that the surging interest in ESG poses more complex questions than straightforward answers for financial institutions? An interesting sub-plot to the revised Basel III agreement, now pushed out until 2025 due to the pandemic, is that rule makers will have new powers to…
TickSmith Waiting to Pounce on ESG Opportunities
First-mover advantage may be a concept that will take a long time to prove in ESG data. The fragmented and fast-changing nature of the industry means the early adopters are still waiting to see if their speed out of the blocks has positioned them well for the future. Data marketplace platform TickSmith is keeping a…
Now it’s Personal: ESG is More than a Business for Plan A Chief
For Plan A co-founder and Chief Executive Lubomila Jordanova, ESG is a personal mission. The former investment banker said she experienced something akin to an epiphany in 2016 that set her on the path to creating her carbon and ESG accounting startup. Now, five years after setting up Berlin-based Plan A, Jordanova is seeing her…
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…