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A-Team Group Names Winners of Data Management Insight Awards 2021
A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious 2021 Data Management Insight Awards. The annual awards, now in their ninth year, recognise leading providers of data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants. Award categories ranged from best data lineage solution to best data quality analysis tool, best standards solution, best corporate…
OneTrust Expands ESG Capabilities with Planetly Acquisition
Risk technology platform OneTrust has acquired carbon accounting startup Planetly, further expanding its ESG capabilities to help meet growing demand for climate-risk mitigation data. The American software giant will absorb the Berlin-based company, bringing Planetly’s carbon footprint management and reporting platform to 10,000 corporates from its present roster of 170 clients. Planetly Chief Commercial Officer Anna…
ESG Book Accelerates Move Towards Free Data
A movement to make ESG data freely available just took a huge step. ESG Book was launched last week by an alliance of international banks and financial institutions including HSBC, Deutsche Bank and The International Finance Corporation (IFC), offering to public view the disclosures of more than 9,000 companies. Frankfurt-based data vendor Arabesque created the…
GoldenSource Revitalises EDM Platform with Open Source Database, Standardisation and Cloud Agnosticism
GoldenSource has revitalised its enterprise data management (EDM) platform with a new cloud native and agnostic version focusing on open source options and standardisation. The aim of version 8.8 is to help users extract more value from data faster and at a lower total cost. The new release supports the PostgreSQL open source database as…
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…