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ISSB Rules Hailed for Bringing Data Clarity, Comparability
The first fruits of the International Sustainability Standards Board’s (ISSB’s) 18 months of work hammering out a set reporting rules that could be applied globally has been welcomed by participants in the financial data and technology industries. The body’s first two sets of disclosure standards, described as “ground-breaking” by the board’s chair Emmanuel Faber, have…
Finastra, Green RWA Launch Free-to-Use Climate Risk Tool in Development Sandbox
Finastra has lent its FinTech expertise and capabilities to an initiative that’s building a model to help banks boost their resilience to climate risks. The London-based company has devised an interface that enables financial institutions, regulators and the public to access the Climate-Extended Risk Model (CERM) risk framework. Users, by their participation, also contribute ideas…
Adaptive’s Aeron Premium Technology Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace
Adaptive Financial Consulting (Adaptive), the electronic trading technology solutions provider, has announced that its Aeron Premium technology is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace. This follows last October’s announcement of Adaptive’s partnership with Google Cloud, and the subsequent launch of Aeron Premium, which augments the popular Aeron open source platform with additional features, enterprise-grade…
Snowflake and NVIDIA Offer Capability to Build Customised Generative AI Applications
Snowflake and NVIDIA have partnered to allow businesses to build customised generative AI applications using their own proprietary data within the Snowflake Data Cloud. The partnership is based on NVIDIA’s NeMo platform for developing large language models (LLMs) and GPU-accelerated computing and will enable enterprises to use data in their Snowflake accounts to build custom…
Datactics Makes Data Assets More Valuable with Renewed Augmented Data Quality Solution
Datactics has released the first phase of its renewed Augmented Data Quality (ADQ) solution including an enhanced user interface and a host of new and improved machine learning (ML) microservices to automate data quality activities. The solution also eliminates time and the need for technical knowledge when addressing data quality issues by democratising data quality…
Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence Launch Integrated Solution for Primary Bond Markets
Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence have unveiled an integrated solution aiming to streamline operations in the syndicated primary bond markets. The solution offers mutual clients of TSOX, Bloomberg’s fixed income execution management system (EMS), and S&P Global Market Intelligence’s InvestorAccess platform, a comprehensive and optimised workflow for primary markets. The system ensures portfolio managers…
GoldenSource Offers Native App to Accelerate Data Onboarding and Analytics in Snowflake Platform
GoldenSource is finalising a Snowflake Native App that will be available alongside the company’s data warehouse schema in the Snowflake Data Share. By moving the GoldenSource schema into the Snowflake cloud data platform, dispersed datasets can be mapped together, delivered in an easy-to-understand format, and sliced and diced by market participants within Snowflake. This should…
SteelEye Reports Increasing Demand for Integrated Surveillance as Regulatory Crackdown Continues
Demand for integrated trade and communications surveillance among financial institutions has surged by 100% this year following heightened regulatory scrutiny across financial markets, according to recent research by SteelEye. The company’s 2023 Annual Compliance Health Check Report, which surveyed more than 300 senior financial services compliance and risk professionals, found integrated surveillance is now a…
Time for Better Tech as Firms Fail to Tackle Trade Fails
By Alistair Griffiths, Director of EMEA Sales, Baton Systems. The drive to innovate is a fundamental human characteristic. However, when I look at certain areas of global financial markets, it feels like we are going backwards, rather than progressing. According to a recent ECB report, settlement fail penalties cost T2S firms over €1.5billion in 2022…
Leveraging Technology to Modernise Trading Platforms
At the A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Briefing New York, the opening panel session was on the subject of “Modernising trading platforms”, where the discussion, moderated by Andrew Delaney, A-Team Group’s President & Chief Content Officer, centred around how to leverage interoperability, technology and outsourcing to differentiate and create a best-in-class trading platform. Panelists Nikhil Singhvi,…