Liquidnet and BondAuction Collaborate to Offer Auction-Style Primary Debt Trading via OMS

Liquidnet, the agency execution specialist, has partnered with BondAuction, an auction platform for the Primary Debt Capital Markets, to provide access to BondAuction’s offering from within clients’ Order Management Systems (OMSs).

Building on Liquidnet Primary Markets’ established OMS connectivity, institutional investors will have the ability to place bids via Liquidnet into the BondAuction platform directly from their OMS, and receive allotments back.

ECB Says Data Quality is Key to its own ESG Guidance Tools

The European Central Bank (ECB) has said the “development of high-quality data” is key to a set of statistical indicators it’s created to help the bank incorporate sustainability risks and markets in its monetary policy decision making. Executive board member Isabel Schnabel made the comment after the ECB said its indicators would focus on sustainable finance, financed emissions and the impact of physical climate risks on portfolios.

ISSB to Announce Reporting Framework in June

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has said it will announce its ESG reporting framework in June. Erkki Liikanen, chair of the IFRS Foundation – under which the board operates – told the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, that he expected the sustainability and climate-related reporting framework to be published “at tremendous speed” because “there is such urgency”. A meeting of the board earlier said it would allow companies exemptions from reporting some ESG data if the cost of gathering and disclosing it would damage them commercially.

US Banks to Undergo Climate Risk Stress Tests

US banks will have to undergo stress tests of their climate risk management and resilience practices under during an exercise organised by the Federal Reserve. The tests will be conducted by the end of July and will examine banks’ preparedness under their current climate policies and under a state of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

S3 Partners Launches Black Map, Providing Visibility into Herd Risk and Market Sentiment

S3 Partners, the financial data marketplace and workflow platform, has launched S3 Black Map, the latest evolution of S3’s platform, giving users visibility into long and short market sentiment, exposure to concentration and herd risk, and positioning of passive and active investment strategies in the marketplace.

Users can filter by industry, sector and cohort to quickly see which stocks in their portfolio are crowded and how the rest of the market is positioned. Black Map is available immediately through the Bloomberg App Portal via on the Bloomberg Terminal.

OSTTRA Enhances Network to Provide Real-Time Visibility of Eurex ETD Trades

OSTTRA, the global post-trade solutions company, is enhancing its network to give market participants a real-time view into the status of Exchange Traded Derivative (ETD) trades cleared through Eurex.

The enhanced connectivity, scheduled to go live in March 2023, will enable Eurex to send investment managers booking confirmations for their allocations via OSTTRA ClientLink for ETD, delivering live status updates on which trades have been given up, claimed and cleared.

S&P Global Expands KY3P with Acquisition of TruSight Solutions

S&P Global has acquired TruSight Solutions, a provider of third-party vendor risk assessments. The acquisition will be combined with KY3P by S&P Global and integrated into the Market Intelligence division. Know Your Third Party (KY3P) was initially a Markit initiative acquired by S&P Global with the company. TruSight was founded by a group of financial institutions including Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo, and will expand S&P Global’s third-party vendor risk management solutions by offering high-quality validated assessment data designed to reduce the vendor due diligence burden on service providers to the financial services industry.

FactSet Integrates Coin Metrics Digital Assets Data into Asset Management Solutions

FactSet is collaborating with Coin Metrics to integrate the latter’s digital assets data across its solutions for asset management, wealth management, and research. The aim is to support client needs to analyse digital instruments as part of multi-asset class portfolios. Additionally, the collaboration adds digital assets sector coverage to FactSet’s StreetAccount news service. The companies also plan to collaborate on new thematic indices that include a digital component.

S&P and UN Creates Biodiversity Risk Framework for Investors

A nature-related risk assessment methodology has been devised by S&P Global’s Sustainable1 unit and the United Nations’ Environment Programme. The framework, which is aligned with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, will enable investors and companies to assess the biodiversity risks to which businesses are exposed and the impacts they are having on surrounding flora, fauna and natural resources.

Solactive Acquires Minerva Analytics

British ESG research, proxy voting and stewardship services provider Minerva Analytics has been bought by indexing firm Solactive. The deal will enable the combined company to offer better ESG indices and benchmarks as well as improved engagement capabilities with portfolio companies, for its 500-plus clients.