A-Team Insight Brief
Kensho Classify NLP Solution Sifts Market Signals Form Thousands of Documents
Kensho Technologies, an S&P Global company, has released a natural language processing (NLP) solution, Kensho Classify, that derives value from vast amounts of text and documents by making content more discoverable, enabling analysis of text, smart search, content recommendations, and streamlined research and analysis. The solution is tuned for complex business and finance use cases, allowing users to find concepts and topics within documents in a fast and efficient way, with no machine learning or technical skills required. For capital markets participants, the solution can help find market signals from thousands of documents.
Kensho recently introduced the Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation (NERD) UI, an NLP solution optimised to extract and understand all types of entities in text documents using a context-aware model. The UI allows users to gain insight into the who, what and where of any document. Classify is a sister solution offering insight on more abstract topics spanning sentences or paragraphs. Together, NERD and Classify can give a complete picture of large amounts of text in a quick and efficient manner.
Qlik Connector Factory Extends Access to SaaS Data for Cloud Analytics
Qlik has introduced Connector Factory in line with its strategy to continually expand access to and delivery of data from hundreds of SaaS applications and data sources to meet enterprise cloud analytics and data integration needs. The company already offers over 250 connectors and through 2023 will add a further 100 connectors for Qlik Cloud Data Integration. The initial delivery of new connectors is expected over the next two quarters and includes support for 30 of the most popular enterprise applications including NetSuite, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Salesforce, Epic, Cerner, OSIsoft, ADP, SAP Ariba and HubSpot.
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.