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Data – the Answer to Meeting Sanctions Screening Challenges Exposed by Ukraine War
The war in Ukraine has highlighted not only the importance of having effective sanctions screening and control processes in place, but also the compliance challenges of modern sanctions regimes. Within the space of days, far-reaching restrictions were placed on individuals, organisations, companies and states covering large parts of the Russian economy and authorities, with the…
Outra Offers Data Science as a Service
Outra, a data science and predictive analytics company dedicated to delivering insight from vast amounts of data, is making its way into the financial services sector and will, no doubt, make further progress following the appointment of Peter Jackson, former group director of data science at Legal & General and CDO at Legal & General…
Arteria AI Plans Global Growth Acceleration of Digital Documentation Solution Following Strategic Investment
Arteria AI is planning to accelerate global growth of its enterprise digital documentation software following strategic investments from Citi SPRINT (Spread Products Investment Technologies), the strategic investing arm of the bank’s Global Spread Products division, and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). Citi and BDC Capital join investors in Arteria AI including Information Venture…
Polymer Capital Management makes strategic data partnership with Bloomberg
Multi-manager hedge fund Polymer Capital Management has made a long-term strategic data and technology partnership with Bloomberg to accelerate growth. Polymer Capital is an Asian-focused multi-manager platform located across six offices in Asia-Pacific, and will use Bloomberg’s data and technology solutions including the firm’s real-time market data feed, B-PIPE; its market-driven credit worthiness indicator, MIPD;…
New Perspectives on ESG Challenges and Opportunities to be Debated at A-Team New York Briefing
Fresh from the success of A-Team’s inaugural ESG Data and Tech Summit London earlier this month, experts and market participants are now looking to New York where we will be hosting the first ESG Data Management Briefing. A host of high-level speakers from international banks, asset managers and data vendors will gather on June 16…
Citi Head of Sustainable Finance Reviews State of Play on Achieving ESG Goals
Financial institutions play a critical role in global sustainability and are making progress in ESG investment, yet significant challenges remain, not least the need for more and better data, and a common regulatory reporting framework. Jason Channell, managing director, head of sustainable finance, Citi Global Insights, at Citi, discussed the strategic imperative for capital markets…
ESGi Embeds LEI in ESG Regulatory Reporting Platform
ESGi, a provider of trusted ESG data for the investment industry, has embedded Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) into its platform, taking advantage of the ISIN to LEI link initiated by the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) and helping buy-side firms identify which companies products are exposed to. The ESGi platform has been developed as a company…
Data Management Summit: Adapting to Changing Regulations
The fast-changing nature of regulatory reporting is placing ever-increasing burdens on financial institutions that must decide how to onboard and manage the data necessary for compliance. The challenges don’t end there – firms must also decide whether they invest in the infrastructure to manage those new obligations or outsource to service providers, with the loss…
Solidatus Outlines Data Blueprint for Better Contextual Decisions
Recent years of disruption caused by the Covid pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war and climate change have accelerated the journey to data digitalisation and making better data-driven decisions – but what are the key steps along the way and how can firms use disruption as an opportunity to reimagine their data? Philip Dutton, co-founder and co-CEO at…
A-Team ESG Data and Tech Summit Debuts with a Message of Care
“He who cares wins.” If the many takeaways from A-Team Group’s inaugural ESG Data and Tech Summit in London last week could be summarised in one quote, it is that from Sean Taylor, Executive Director, Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management. The former military serviceman paraphrased the slogan of the UK’s elite army corps, the SAS, to characterise…