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Tractiv Raises $2.25 Million to Build Out Data Tracking Solution
Chicago-based data usage monitoring and tracking specialist Tractiv, formerly known as TradeX, has raised $2.25 million in seed funding to expand its engineering and sales teams. At the same time, the company has added Mark Almeida to its board of directors. Almeida is Limited Partner Advisor at Nyca Partners – which led the funding round…
Moody’s Boosts KYC Offerings with Acquisition of PassFort and Kompany
Moody’s has continued its foray into the regulatory and compliance segment with the acquisition of two KYC solutions providers: PassFort and 360kompany (a.k.a. kompany). The acquisitions complement Moody’s Orbis company database acquired with Bureau van Dijk, and are aimed at adding to Moody’s KYC, AML and counterparty risk capabilities. The acquisition of PassFort and planned…
SimCorp Partners Domos FS to Offer Cross Asset Investment Management for Public and Private Markets
SimCorp has partnered with Domos FS, a provider of solutions for alternative assets fund management, to deliver front-to-back-office investment management covering both public and private markets for asset managers, asset owners and service providers. SimCorp has also taken an initial minority stake in Domos FS. The partnership has been made in response to increased use…
NeoXam Connects to Refinitiv Data Platform to Expand Provision of Reference, Pricing and ESG Data
NeoXam has extended its partnership with Refinitiv, a London Stock Exchange Group company, to offer clients a wider range of data sourced for the first time from the Refinitiv Data Platform (RDP) that was released early last year. The data will include reference, pricing, and ESG data as well as data exclusive to the RDP…
IOSCO Report Shows Data Regulations are Just Around the Corner
Growing calls for ESG data and ratings provisions to be brought under the watch of regulators around the world is likely to result in a swell of legislation in the next year or so, vendors told ESG Insight. After a global grouping of financial watchdogs recommended that ESG data products and services be included in…
The View From Space: QuantCube Harnesses Satellite Data to Build Environmental Intelligence Tools
Alternative data vendor QuantCube has created a slew of environmental intelligence products using satellite data sourced from the European Space Agency combined with other alternative data sources. As well as creating four environmental and social economic indicator services, the Paris-based company has also incorporated the new information into its benchmarking and analytical overlays. The offerings…
Altada Opens London Office to Meet Local Demand for AI Solutions for Asset Management
Altada Technology Solutions, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions supporting improved data-driven decision making in the asset management community, is expanding on a global basis with the addition of a London office. Through 2021, the company has added offices in New York, San Francisco, Malta, Dublin and Barcelona. Altada was founded in 2018 in Cork,…
Optimising Sustainable Investment Processes – How Asset Managers Can Best Prepare
By Martijn Groot, vice president, Marketing and Strategy, Alveo. Investment strategies are increasingly being driven by environmental social and governance (ESG) criteria and considerations, and ESG investment is growing rapidly. Research from Bloomberg found that assets invested according to ESG criteria are on track to exceed $53 trillion by 2025, representing more than a third…
There’s More To A-Team Than Meets the Eye – Check Out Our Shiny New Website to Find Out More
Here at A-Team Group HQ, we’ve spent a lot of the global pandemic tracking and supporting the capital markets technology industry as it has grappled with the operational hurdles Covid-19 threw in their path. But we have also been working behind the scenes to launch a new website for our marketing clients to better reflect…
RepRisk Opens up its Methodology to Inspire ESG Transparency
RepRisk’s publication of the methodology behind its ESG data is hoped to encourage competitors to follow suit and bring greater transparency to the sustainable investment space. The Zurich-based data vendor made the plumbing behind its services available on its website in the past week. Now available to the public are its Jupyter notebooks, which can…