Latin American ESG Services Provider NINT Acquired by ERM

NINT, a Latin America-focused ESG research company that offers due diligence and other advisory services to financial institutions, has been bought by ERM. Rio de Janeiro-based NINT will provide assessments of sustainability-liked assets and support issuance and debt structuring expertise.

Clarity AI, CDP to Jointly Build Sustainability Tech Tools

Clarity AI and CDP are to jointly develop new technology products to help financial institutions to gauge their environmental impact. London-based Clarity AI, a sustainability technology platform, will use data from CDP in its Net Zero tool and will calculate the disclosure body’s Climetrics database for ETFs and funds.

Breakthrough in European Green Bond Labelling

The European Union has agreed to create standards for its proposed green bond labelling framework, bringing one of the thorniest debates among the region’s regulators closer to a resolution. The proposed standards set the guidelines that bond issuers should follow before they can confidently describe their debt as “green”.

DiffusionData Releases New Gateway Framework

Real-time data streaming and messaging solutions vendor DiffusionData (formerly known as Push Technology) has released its Gateway Framework 1.0, designed to facilitate easy integration between Diffusion and back-end data sources.

The Gateway Framework, which comes fully integrated with the Diffusion Management Console, provides a low code solution, where the application writer only needs to concentrate on the interactions with the external systems.

Trading Technologies and Bantix Technologies Partner to Provide QuikStrike Through TT Platform

Trading Technologies, provider of trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, has partnered with Bantix Technologies, an options software development company, to offer access to QuikStrike, Bantix’s options analysis software application, through the TT platform.

The QuikStrike interface will be accessible through TT via a single click, giving professional brokers and traders immediate access to options pricing, analytics and data retrieval, historical volatility tools, risk analysis, custom reporting and comprehensive market information.

LSEG Extends Yield Book Analytics Partnership with Citi

London Stock Exchange Group is to extend its long-standing Yield Book fixed income analytics partnership with Citi. The multi-year commitment aims to expand deep models, innovative analytics, and model infrastructure, providing clients with the necessary analytic tools to help manage and grow their businesses.

Yield Book provides analytics that enable market makers and institutional investors to perform analysis of their portfolios, benchmarks, trading decisions, historical performance, and risk, across a range of fixed income products, including governments, agencies, corporates, high yield, emerging markets, mortgages, ABS, CMBS, CMOs, and derivatives.

Synechron Offers Data Monetisation Accelerator Programme

Digital transformation consulting firm Synechron has released a data monetisation accelerator programme that offers a suite of building block solutions designed to help asset managers and financial institutions unlock the full potential of their data. The Synechron tools leverage analytics and derive insights to identify revenue opportunities and implement key strategies for monetising data, while preserving data privacy, security, governance and management.

Quantexa Completes Acquisition of Aylien

Quantexa, a player in the decision intelligence market, has completed the acquisition of Aylien, an AI, NLP and ML company based in Dublin. Founded in 2012, Aylien applies advanced AI to unstructured data to create a rich, real-time, and reliable stream of actionable insights. The combination of Aylien’s AI and NLP, and Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence platform, will provide a step towards Quantexa’s vision of offering users of its platform full context of their business operations by unifying the structured and unstructured world.

Rimes Offers Clients ESG Book Data and Scores

Clients of data management solutions provider Rimes can now access ESG Book’s sustainability data. ESG Book, which was created by asset manager and data provide Arabesque along with an alliance of financial institution, will offer its ESG data via Rimes could-based platform. The datasets cover more than 50,000 companies, including scores.

EFAMA Says Green Labelling Plan is Flawed

Industry body, the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), has taken aim at one of the European Union’s regulators over proposed labelling laws for green funds. EFAMA said the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) recommendation for a numerical threshold system for grading funds’ sustainability characteristics would not eliminate greenwashing. Its offered alternative calls for an evidence-based assessment of funds’ objectives and strategies.