A-Team Insight Brief
ION Links Up with Trumid for Credit Markets eTrading
Trading solutions vendor ION Markets has upgraded its connectivity to Trumid, an electronic bond trading platform, to support Trumid’s Attributed Trading, a disclosed dealer-to-client negotiation protocol, through the ION Credit solution. The upgrade, which builds on previous versions of Trumid supporting axe contribution and post-trade functionalities, now provides access to diverse market data sources, automation for axe and run management, and ION’s advanced pricing engine, which will overcome the complexity and fragmentation of credit markets and equip users to deliver fast, accurate service, according to the company.
M&G Selects Bloomberg DMS for ESG Data Consolidation
Bloomberg Data Management Services (DMS) is to manage the ESG data of M&G Investments, consolidating the UK investment house’s sustainability information feeds into its cloud-based platform. The deal will see DMS link M&G’s ESG data with its analytics, pricing and other data sources, mapping them to a common hierarchy. M&G clients will be able to access the feeds via APIs or SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).
S&P Global Acquires The Climate Service
Climate risk calculations provider The Climate Service has been acquired by S&P Global to bolster its ESG data products. The Durham, North Carolina-based company created the Climanomics platform, which quantifies companies’ climate risks in alignment with the Task Force gor Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). S&P Global will add the service to its ESG offerings, which include the Sustainable1 data, benchmarking and analysis suite to tools.
Deloitte and AccessFintech Join Forces to Address Digital Transformation
Deloitte and AccessFintech have formed a strategic alliance to support financial institutions as they digitally transform their operations. The alliance brings together Deloitte’s financial services industry consulting and advisory services, and AccessFintech’s data management and workflow solutions that are designed to overcome challenges relating to legacy IT platforms, fragmented data and manual processes. AccessFintech’s offerings include Synergy DataLake, which enables the industry to share data and optimise operations through collaboration; and Synergy Network, which enhances data and workflows, and underpins the transformation of operations using transaction lifecycle management and benchmarking insights from across the financial ecosystem.
PKO Bank Polski Selects SS&C FRTB Solution
PKO Bank Polski has implemented SS&C’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) standardised approach solution. As part of an update of its risk management framework, the bank will use SS&C’s FRTB solution to calculate risk sensitivities and provide FRTB-specific calculations and workflows, extensive model coverage, high performance, scalability and extensibility through APIs. The bank also uses SS&C’s Algorithmics Workspace Analyzer with the FRTB solution to provide aggregation, sandboxing and what-if capabilities, and SS&C Algorithmics market risk and counterparty credit risk solutions.
Bloomberg Adds Municipal Bonds ESG Tracker
Bloomberg has widened its coverage of municipal bonds in the US with a an ESG-focused index. the Bloomberg US Municipal Impact Index tracks local and regional dollar-denominated debt that has been categorised as green, social or sustainability securities at issuance or via an independent assurance organisation. The bonds will also feature within sub indexes for each individual category. Only tax-exempt issues that have at least a year until maturity are included.
ICE Integrates RIMES ETF Data
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has integrated ETF data managed by RIMES into several of its products, including ICE ETF Hub, ICE Portfolio Analytics and ICE FI Select. The addition of the RIMES data will allow customers to access digestible and comprehensive equity and fixed income ETF data across ICE’s suite of ETF workflows, and gain deeper insights, analytics and data around ETFs to make better informed decisions.
ICE Acquires Climate, Real Estate Risk Analytics Firms
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has acquired risQ and Level 11 Analytics. RisQ is a climate risk specialist and Level 11 focuses on geospatial data for the real estate sectors. The purchase of the two broadens ICE’s ESG capabilities within the fixed income space. At the same time, the Atlanta, Georgia-based exchange, data and technology giant unveiled an ESG data and analytics product targeted at the US mortgage market.
EU Approves Implementation of Taxonomy Delegated Act
The European Union’s Taxonomy climate Delegated Act will come into force next month, a move that’s considered a milestone in the bloc’s aim to bring sustainability accounting to its companies. The member states of the EU’s Commission approved the implementation of the regulation. The EU Taxonomy is seen as key to enabling investors to accurately compare the ESG disclosures of corporates and provides a sustainability benchmark and common language for markets.
FactSet Joins AWS Data Exchange
FactSet has joined the AWS Data Exchange and will deploy over 30 proprietary datasets available within the FactSet ecosystem on the exchange, allowing clients to use its content for faster, more efficient decision making. The data will be made available on AWS Data Exchange using Amazon Redshift Data Sharing, which allows clients to securely and easily share live data across Amazon Redshift clusters. FactSet will also begin listing APIs that allow users to benefit from its portfolio analytics engine without being existing FactSet clients. Additional APIs to AWS Data Exchange will provide flexible access to all FactSet content and functionality.