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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…
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 Best Data Lineage Providers
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…