Switzerland has proposed new rules covering the labelling of sustainable financial products traded in the Alpine nation’s markets. The Swiss Federal Council said it will require issuers of the products to be able to justify the use of descriptive terms such as “green” and “ESG”. Among other requirements, the council proposes that issuers include disclosures on their products’ approach to sustainability and provide third-party verification of their credibility.
Financial analytics platforms in Hedge Funds are often segmented between real-time and back-office analytics systems fed by slower batch processes. To support winning analytics, hedge funds and other trading firms need to bring together real-time streams with historical analytic data in a single high-performance data store to refresh reports and risk models in near-real-time. Listen...
Business conduct data is becoming more important to financial institutions as the risk of exposure to damaging incidents increases. A new survey of more than 500 C-suite risk leaders by RepRisk – a provider of data on business conduct risks faced by financial and other industries – found that four-fifths expect business conduct risk data...
Now in its 3rd year, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns with a focus on the practicalities of onboarding AI enterprise wide for business value creation. Whilst AI offers huge potential to revolutionise capital markets operations many are struggling to move beyond pilot phase to generate substantial value from AI.
After what looked like a slow start to the summer, the initiative to establish a global standard for legal entity identifiers (LEIs) took a series of significant leaps forward during August, that appears to have put the project firmly back on track. If the marketplace felt a little reticent in June and July, it could...
