The Economist Intelligence Unit has launched its own ESG Rating Service for investors and consumers, offering scores on 150 countries based on 90 sustainability indicators. The service gives country-level historic rankings back to 2015 and lays out quarterly analyses of key trends. The London-based information provider said the comparability of the ratings would help clients in their decision-making processes.
Remember the days when email was the predominant media for electronic communications within and among financial institutions? Fast forward to today, and email represents a declining fraction of these e-comms, many of which are hosted by modern collaborative platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack, and Zoom, and all of which are subject to surveillance....
By Swati Bhatia, head of fixed income, financial information at SIX. Sovereign bond issuance across the OECD’s member countries is predicted to have reach a record US$17 trillion at the end of last year, a scale of borrowing that would have seemed mind-boggling only a few years ago. On the corporate debt side, the total...
Now in its 8th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
They say time flies when you’re enjoying yourself, and so it seems the industry have been having a blast with its preparations for the introduction of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) next month. But now it’s time to get serious. To date, much of the industry debate has centred on the identifier itself: its...
