Fairlight Asset Management Upgrades with SS&C Eze Eclipse

Fairlight Asset Management, a Sydney, Australia-based global equity manager, has selected SS&C Technologies Eze Eclipse to update is existing workflows and provide a front-to-back investment management platform. Fairlight is using the solution to optimise team activities, ensure compliance across global portfolios, and reconcile its full investment book of record on a daily basis.

Parameta and PeerNova Launch ClearConsensus for Independent Price Valuation

Parameta Solutions, the Data & Analytics division of TP ICAP Group, and PeerNova, a data analytics and management company, have partnered to launch ClearConsensus™, a transparent consensus network for Independent Price Valuation. The service aims to improve business resilience and regulatory response at global banks, by addressing the risk environments for price valuation and control groups.

ClearConsensus combines Parameta’s Evaluated Price (EvP) with PeerNova’s Cuneiform® technology platform to directly introduce observable transactions data via the EvP, while maintaining participant anonymity and data privacy. Real-time analytics help identify market trends to optimise capital allocation and mitigate risk.

Genesis Global Enhances Platform to Streamline Data Integration, Reporting and Full-stack Application Development

Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets, has announced a number of platform enhancements designed to it faster and easier for software developers to build new applications and enhance legacy systems.

The enhancements include a new low-code language for creating Genesis applications, streamlined data integration capabilities, a new reporting module, and Oracle database support.

EFAMA Supports Move Towards Global Reporting Standards

Europe’s asset management industry has backed calls for globally aligned sustainability reporting standards. The call from the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) came in a written response to a position paper from the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) of private companies. It said that investors can only help bring about zero-emissions strategies if they have the sort of data and insights that can be obtained through common reporting standards.

VRF and SASB Amalgamated into IFRS Foundation

The unification of ESG reporting standards took a further step this week when the Value Reporting Foundation, one of the early innovators in setting ESG disclosure guidance and founder of the Integrated Reporting Framework (IRF) and SASB Standards, was amalgamated into the IFRS Foundation. Their functions will continue within the International Sustainability Standards Board, which was created at the Glasgow COP26 summit last year.

MiFID ESG Requirements go Live, Compliance Caution Urged

The ESG reporting requirement under the amended Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) came into effect this week, with warnings from some market participants that the new regulation would add more costs and challenges to compliance teams. Financial infrastructure and data provider SIX, however, said the obligations needn’t overwhelm firms.

“Regulatory complacency is unwise for firms at this time, as the introduction of additional ESG requirements could add ongoing MiFID compliance issues. However, much of the sustainability data and criteria needed to comply with the suitability requirements under the MiFID II update is the same as that housed already for the EU SFDR and the Green Taxonomy,” said Janine Hofer-Wittwer, Senior Product Manager of Financial Information at SIX. “For market participants, the goal is to work with data providers able to source and distil the data and provide it in a way that is easy to implement, minimising the lift needed for the latest and future ESG regulatory requirements.”

Trading Technologies Launches Connectivity to NSE IFSC-SGX Connect for International Nifty Equity Derivatives Trading

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), the global provider of trading software, infrastructure and data solutions has begun offering clients access to the popular Nifty equity derivatives through NSE IFSC-SGX Connect, a new joint initiative between Singapore Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India launched on July 29.

As one of the first technology providers to offer international market participants access to the NSE IFSC-SGX Connect, TT is giving global banks and other major financial institutions that use the TT® platform seamless access to Nifty equity derivatives alongside products from more than 50 other major international markets, including SGX Group.

QuantCube Launches Liquefied Natural Gas Commodity Trade Indicator

Alternative data specialist QuantCube Technology has launched a new QuantCube Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Commodity Trade Indicator, which aims to provide supply side commodity and energy futures traders with crucial insights at least one month in advance of official data, by tracking the import and export in volume of Liquefied Natural Gas.

Harnessing automatic identification system data to track the position of tanker ships in real time, the LNG Indicator is a significant addition to QuantCube’s suite of real-time international commodity trade indicators, which include Crude Oil, Iron Ore, and Coal.

Broadridge Opens APAC Headquarters Office in Singapore

Broadridge Financial Solutions has strengthened its presence in Asia-Pacific with a new office in Singapore that will be its APAC headquarters. The office brings together dedicated teams from product development, implementation and support, research insights, sales, marketing and finance.

“To better serve clients in Asia-Pacific on their digital transformation journeys and enable them to simplify their technology stacks to address cost pressures, inefficiencies and legacy systems, Broadridge is investing heavily in the region, and has expanded its bench of senior leaders based in Singapore,” says Samir Pandiri, president of Broadridge International.

DTCC Partners Kingfield to Automate Corporate Actions Claims

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) subsidiary The Depository Trust Company (DTC) has connected its automated ClaimConnect corporate actions solution to the claims processing platform offered by Kingfield Corporation. By integrating ClaimConnect with the Kingfield platform, mutual clients, including State Street, will be able to automate claims from submission to settlement from their own proprietary systems.