GLEIF Names Shanghai Electronic Certification Authority as China’s New vLEI Issuer

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has named the Shanghai Electronic Certification Authority (SHECA) as its newest Qualified vLEI Issuer (QVI),

The vLEI is a globally standardised, secure digital counterpart to the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), providing cryptographically verifiable organisational identity.

SHECA, one of China’s Certification Authorities, will now offer authoritative vLEI issuance, validation and verification services. This appointment will help Chinese companies address regulatory requirements in cross-border trade by verifying the identity of counterparties and their representatives, supporting applications like e-invoices and e-bills of lading (eBL).

“SHECA’s approval as a QVI marks a significant expansion of the vLEI ecosystem in China, which stands to increase the adoption and application of the vLEI across the region to foster simpler, smoother, and safer trade,” said Alexandre Kech, GLEIF chief executive.

RepRisk Data to Support JPX-Nikkei Indices

RepRisk, a Data as a Service (DaaS) company for reputational risks, said its data is now being used in the periodic review of constituents in the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 and the JPX-Nikkei Mid and Small Cap Index.

The index providers, JPX Market Innovation & Research and Nikkei, will use the RepRisk Index (RRI) to strengthen their indices with the aim of improving their alignment with global investment standards, particularly focusing on corporate social responsibility.

Both indices will now exclude any company with an RRI of 75 or higher, which indicates an extremely high risk. Philipp Aeby, RepRisk chief executive said: “We are proud to enable JPX’s initiative to promote responsible business conduct and risk transparency.”

S&P Global Integrates AI Document Analysis on Salesforce AgentExchange

S&P Global has made its S&P Capital IQ Pro Document Intelligence available to users of Salesforce’s AgentExchange, integrating Generative AI directly into customer relationship management workflows.

S&P Global said this will simplify how customers analyse complex company documents, boosting productivity and enabling clients to make quicker, data-informed decisions.

The new integration builds on S&P Global’s partnership with the Salesforce Independent Software Vendor (ISV) programme, and is accessible through Salesforce’s marketplace for agentic AI tools.

SIX Signs Seven-Year Strategic Partnership with Barclays

Financial data provider SIX has signed a seven-year strategic partnership with Barclays. The agreement will provide all divisions of the global banking group, including its investment banking, retail, wealth management, and corporate services, with access to SIX’s comprehensive suite of financial data products. The partnership is intended to support Barclays’ international growth and drive cost efficiencies, aligning with the bank’s wider strategic transformation, with a goal to reduce costs by £2bn by 2026.

The collaboration builds on a longstanding relationship and will see Barclays contributing to the product strategy and development of new data and analytical products from SIX. In return for providing access to services such as real-time market data, wealth management capabilities, and regulatory reporting solutions, the partnership supports SIX’s own plans to expand, by helping strengthen the provider’s presence in key regions like the US and Asia, where Barclays has a significant footprint.

NeoXam Opens New Office in India

FinTech software provider NeoXam has opened a new office in Chennai, India, the French company expands its reconciliation-as-a-service product.

The move follows NeoXam’s acquisition of artificial intelligence-powered reconciliation company EZOPS, which initially opened the Chennai hub in 2022.

Private Markets ESG Data Startup Novata Acquires Atlas Metrics

Novata, an ESG data startup for private markets participants, has acquired European sustainability performance and reporting platform Atlas Metrics.

The purchase is targeted at helping New York-based Novata expand internationally, leveraging Atlas’ ESG compliance and sustainability performance management platform for banking and corporate clients.

Data Quality Tops List of Fixed-Income Market Challenges

Poor data quality has topped a list of challenges faced by fixed-income market participants in a survey by SIX.

The poll found that almost three-fifths of respondents said that issues such as mismatches in reference data, such as identifiers, or coupon details delaying settlements were the leading hurdles to smooth operations. Data integration was a problem for almost half of respondents and a third cited a lack of data transparency.

DMS USA Awards Winner Alkymi Launches Investment Data Management Tool

Private markets data an technology provider Alkymi has launched Alkymi Alts, an investment data management tool.

Alkymi, which won the Best AI-Based Data Management Capability going at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit USA Awards this year, said the new service “streamlines complex workflows, automates data extraction and validation, and provides powerful analytics with configurable dashboards, all integrated seamlessly with portfolio management, accounting, and CRM systems”.

ESG Reporting Platform Greenomy Acquired by Position Green

Sustainability reporting solutions provider Greenomy has been acquired by ESG software developer Position Green.

Brussels based Greenomy, which had been majority funded by Euroclear, is hoped to provide Position Green with an across-the-board analytics and compliance offering.

Acceldata Makes Agentic Data Management Platform Available to Clients

Clients of data observability technology company Acceldata can now utilise the company’s artificial intelligence agents to unify governance, quality, catalogue and observability processes.

Its Agentic Data Management platform will “enable enterprises to move from static governance and monitoring to dynamic, agentic systems that anticipate needs, adapt in real time and operate at scale”, said Acceldata chief executive Rohit Choudhary.