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Social Taxonomy Poses Data Challenges Say Experts
The European Union’s plans to create a Social Taxonomy will pose even greater data challenges than the framework created for financial institutions and companies to report on their environmental impacts. Experts warn that the lack of concrete data on issues such as diversity and modern slavery will make the process of formulating the regulation slow…
Real Estate ESG Intelligence Firm Deepki to Boost Data Capabilities After New Funding Round
Property data intelligence and carbon accounting company Deepki is looking to boost its data and technology capabilities after raising €150 million (US$165m) in its latest funding round. The London- and Paris-headquartered company is on the scout for acquisitions among internet-of-things (IoT) and other data-gathering technologies to help bolster its emissions monitoring and reporting service for…
What is Digital Transformation and How Do You Get it Right?
While financial institutions are grasping the opportunities offered by the digital transformation of their activities, a number of impediments are hampering some from extending the strategy to their operations teams in the back office. A stubborn corporate culture, fear of change and a lack of planning are just some of the challenges cited by industry…
SIX Financial Information Sets Out Expansion Plans
SIX Financial Information will focus on expanding its sanctions, regulatory compliance, Environment, Social and Governance (ESG), exchange traded funds (ETFs), and digital assets capabilities over the coming year, the whole based on the company’s foundation of reference, pricing, corporate actions and index data. To find out more about the company’s plans, Data Management Insight caught…
Challenges and Opportunities of Data Sharing and Monetisation
In this video, Jake McBride, product manager at Ticksmith, and Jay Bhankharia, senior director of partnerships at Databricks, discuss why financial institutions are embracing the concept of data sharing, the steps organisations need to take to ensure they get full leverage from their data, and how to prepare internally for effective data sharing. With the…
Data Firms See Benefits From ISSB, GRI Coordination
Data vendors and managers have welcomed a recent tie-up between two major global ESG standards setters, saying the move would bring clarity to the opaque sustainability reporting space. Leading companies in the ESG data space said the memorandum of understanding signed between the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) would lead…
Many Firms Are Not Data-Ready for SFDR Level 2
Many financial institutions have yet to grasp the data implications of the European Union’s ESG reporting regulations, while others are scrambling to put in place processes to comply with the developing set of disclosure rules. That’s the observation of professional consultancy ACA Group, whose ESG Regulatory and Governance Lead Dani Williams said the company is…
MarketAxess Selects DataBP to Automate Data Licensing and Post-Sales Processes
MarketAxess, operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed income securities and provider of market data and post-trade services for global fixed income markets, is working with DataBP, a data licensing and commercial management platform, to support and automate its data licensing and post-sales processes. DataBP says that as data consumption methods in financial services…
Biodiversity: The Next Hurdle in the ESG Data Marathon
By Thomas McHugh, CEO, FINBOURNE Technology. With ESG firmly on the global investment agenda, investors are increasingly expecting asset managers to generate sustainable returns across multi-asset portfolios. In developed markets, many are expecting not just a portion of these investments, but a majority of their portfolio, to positively impact on the community and the environment….
SmartSearch Releases High-Risk Country Report Service in Response to Sanctions Against Russia
SmartSearch, an anti-money laundering (AML) specialist, has released a high-risk country report service in response to the introduction of sanctions against Russia. The service enables regulated businesses to scan existing clients and check for residency or citizenship in Russia, Belarus, or any other high-risk countries. The reporting tool instantly checks all clients that the regulated business has…