Synechron Partners Differential Privacy Solutions Provider LeapYear to Help Clients Monetise Data

Digital transformation consultancy Synechron has partnered LeapYear Technologies to accelerate the use of ‘differential privacy’ solutions that Synechron can provide to its banking, asset management, insurance, and stock exchange clients. LeapYear unlocks commercial value from large-scale data in a mathematically proven, scalable, rigorous, and anonymised way.

The companies have developed a proof of concept and can now help financial services firms get value from their data with ironclad protection of the source. Sandeep Kumar, managing director, innovations, at Synechron, says: “Firms can monetise the vast amounts of data they collect. The data can be collectively leveraged to derive analytics and valuable insights, while keeping individuals, clients and institutions private.”

Ishaan Nerurkar, CEO at LeapYear Technologies, adds: “Our solutions allow enterprises to break down silos, form data partnerships, and maximise the commercial impact of their franchise data.”

FTX US Selects Eventus for Crypto Surveillance

US-regulated cryptocurrency exchange FTX US has selected Eventus Systems to conduct trade surveillance and risk monitoring on its cryptocurrency futures and options exchange and clearinghouse. FTX US Derivatives plans to leverage the alert coverage, trade practice investigation tools, and data tagging provided by Eventus’ Validus platform to monitor its listed derivatives market. In addition, FTX US Derivatives and FTX US plan to implement cross-market surveillance across multiple asset classes and order books, and utilise Validus’ machine learning-based noise-reduction tooling to enable compliance staff to focus on key information.

Bloomberg and Acadia Introduce Pre-Trade SIMM Calculations

Bloomberg and Acadia, specialists in risk management, have integrated Bloomberg’s Multi Asset Risk System (MARS) with Acadia’s IMEM (Initial Margin Exposure Manager) module. The integration will provide Standard Initial Margin Model (SIMM) pre-trade analytics, and will support Phase 6 of the Uncleared Margin Rule (UMR) obligations, part of the longstanding initial margin rule framework created by the Basel Committee and IOSCO. The addition of the pre-trade SIMM analytics expands Bloomberg’s existing post-trade integration with Acadia, which enables in-scope market participants to calculate initial margin for uncleared derivatives, and provides access to calculation of risk sensitivities through both Bloomberg and Acadia.

EY Survey Shows Growing Demand for Consistent ESG Reporting Standards

A survey by professional services giant EY Assurance has found that three quarters of financial leaders want to see more consistent ESG reporting standards and that they must be mandatory. A similar proportion of the 1,000 executives interviewed said that ESG was a “significant part of their role” – up from two-thirds in the poll last year. Nevertheless around a third of respondents said that there was a lack of real-time data and information with long-term value. And almost a quarter said there was a “disconnect” between reporting ESG and mainstream financial information. “There is no doubt that the drive towards improved sustainability reporting is gaining momentum… but there is a steep mountain to climb,” said Marie-Laure Delarue, EY Global Vice Chair.

Moody’s Expands ESG Credit Ratings to More Industries

Moody’s Investors Service has widened its coverage of ESG credit risk scores to industries including oil and gas, utilities, semiconductors and financial services. The rating company offers issuer profile scores for 1,700 borrowers including companies, nations and regional entities, measuring their exposure to ESG-related risks. It also provides credit impact scores, which give an indication of the impact those ESG measures have on an issuer’s credit rating. Each gauge is expressed on a five-point scale.

Leveraged Finance Investors Call for More Loans ESG Data

European investors in leveraged finance instruments have called for more sustainability data on the securities. The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) has urged vendors to do more to increase transparency into the asset class. The organisation said vendors covered no more than 10 per cent of leveraged loans. That compares with up to 79 per cent coverage of investment grade borrowers.

NeoXam Partners Data Management Consultancy Soranus

NeoXam continues to extend its partner portfolio with the addition of a strategic agreement with Soranus, a data management consultancy. The agreement is designed to support client implementation projects of the company’s DataHub across Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

Arteria AI Acquires H4 to Further Develop Digital Documentation Solution

Arteria AI, a provider of enterprise digital documentation, has agreed to acquire certain financial services assets of H4, a lifecycle management platform. H4’s chairman and co-founder Joe Seifert will join Arteria AI’s team as a senior advisor. Arteria AI, a Deloitte spin off, works with large banks to accelerate client documentation processes at scale. From document generation to signature, the company uses context-specific AI, data, analytics and automation to allow stakeholders across the bank to serve clients more quickly.

Quant Insight and Symphony Partner to Provide Macro Analytics Insights

Quantitative analytics vendor Quant Insight (Qi) has partnered with Symphony, the market infrastructure and technology platform, to offer macro-based insights to Symphony’s global financial community. Qi’s Retina (Real time Notifications and Alerts) will sit on the Symphony platform and push macro-based insights into Symphony chat rooms in real time. With Retina, Symphony users will be alerted to macro-based valuation anomalies, shifts in key macro drivers and changes in underlying trends covering 6,000 market instruments including indices, sectors, stocks, FX, rates, futures, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. Retina makes extensive use of machine learning technology, and the Qi team includes experienced former portfolio managers from Brevan Howard, Millennium, BlueCrest, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, and others.

FactSet Adds Fixed Income Trading Capabilities to Portware

FactSet, the global provider of financial information and analytical applications, has launched a suite of fixed income trading capabilities for Portware, its execution management system (EMS) best known for electronic trading and automation in listed assets and FX. With the introduction of fixed income trading, Portware now enables clients to trade more efficiently across more asset classes. In addition to connecting to established trading venues, FactSet is integrating with several data providers and trading destinations to display pre-trade analytics related to pricing and liquidity, as well as sourcing content from FactSet’s own fixed income data and analytics libraries. Further investment and integrations are planned to aggregate additional liquidity sources for FactSet’s trading clients. The new capabilities were built in collaboration with FactSet’s client GIC, to support GIC’s global trading desks.