European Parliament Adopts CSRD

The European Union’s parliament has endorsed the creation of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the regulation that’s intended to oblige larger non-financial companies to disclose their ESG performance. The parliament overwhelmingly approved the formation of the framework, which is to be implemented by the end of next year.

Capital.com to Take Refinitiv ESG Data and Sentiment Analyses

Refinitiv will supply ESG data top clients of European investment trading platform Capital.com. The data provider, part of the London Stock Exchange Group, will provide real-time data as well as AI-generated sentiment analysis.

CDP Adopts ISSB-Created Reporting Template

CDP will integrate into its disclosures platform a newly created template that’s likely to form the basis of a global reporting standard for climate-related performance. CDP will use the IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures that’s being drawn up by the International Sustainable Standards Board. The board was created at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, last year to unify ESG reporting frameworks.

ESG Disclosure Blueprint for Private, Alternative Investors Unveiled

A template for companies to submit their ESG disclosures to private and alternative investors has been launched. The ESG Integrated Disclosure Project (ESG IDP) template aims to promote “greater harmonisation and consistency of disclosure of key ESG indicators by borrowers in private credit and syndicated loan transactions”.

Capital.com Selects IntegralFX for Retail FX Customers

Global brokerage firm Capital.com has selected IntegralFX, the cloud-based FX workflow automation solution from technology provider Integral, to offer bank-grade pricing to its retail trader customer base.

Integral’s end-to-end eFX trading and workflow solution has been specifically built for the broker community. Capital.com will aim to benefit from connectivity to Integral’s low-latency market data, greater access to multi-asset liquidity sources, and advanced price distribution functionality.

Start-up Util Raises £5m for its Environmental Impact Data Service

Util has closed a £5 million funding round that saw the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange buy stakes in the London-based sustainability data provider. Util counts Danske Bank Asset Management and Degroof Petercam Asset Management among the customers to whom it supplies environmental impact data on 50,000 companies.

Alveo Ops360 Adds No Code Curve builder & Integrates with QuantLab

Cloud-based market data management service provider Alveo has extended its data operations solution Ops360 by rolling out ‘no code’ capabilities in its curve builder and integrating with QuantLab for advanced analytics.

Without the need to code, users can now drag and drop input data sets into functions and set parameters to derive data and calculate curves and risk factors. They can also now prototype and do ‘what if’ analysis on risk factor creation against either standard libraries such as QuantLib, or their own libraries in Python or other languages.

OpenFin Expands to Government Sector

OpenFin, the operating system of enterprise productivity, has expanded out outside of the finance sector for the first time by entered into a strategic partnership with, and securing investment from, In-Q-Tel (IQT), the not-for-profit strategic investor serving the U.S. intelligence and national security community.

The company has also announced record growth for the first half of 2022, with a number of significant wins in the finance space. The software is now used at more than 3,800 banks, wealth and asset management firms in 60+ countries.

Rimes Offers Clients DEI Data from Denominator

Diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) metrics specialist Denominator is to provide data and scores to financial institution clients of ESG data management company Rimes Technologies. Rimes, which won two gongs in this year’s A-Team Innovation Awards, described the new partnership as a “great addition to our data universe”. Denominator’s metrics are based on more than 650 DEI variables applied to more than 1.5 million private and public companies.

McObject Extends Capabilities of eXtremeDB in Version 8.3

McObject has released version 8.3 of eXtremeDB, a hybrid in-memory and persistent database management systems (DBMS) that can be used as an embedded database with or without SQL, a client/server database, and a distributed database. New features in eXtremeDB 8.3 include: server-side authentication when using eXtremeDB as a client/server DBMS; addition of authentication to the JDBC driver; C# SQL API for .NET 5 and .NET 6;  and SQL execution engine improvements.