Almost a third of companies do not take climate change into consideration when analysing risks to their business. An Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) report found that finance departments were among the least likely to regard ESG risks as material. Corporate climate risks and mitigation strategies are metrics that have become increasingly important to investors.
Best execution under MiFID II and other current regulations presents practitioners with a daunting challenge: How does my firm provide evidence that it acted in the best interests of the client? The response necessarily requires storage of vast quantities of data from multiple sources and communications channels, for long periods of time – in the...
Consensus remains elusive over the value of aggregated ESG metrics such as ratings and other scores despite a flurry of recent studies on the contentious issue. Three issuers of ratings and indexes conducted their own research into the performance of funds and assets relative to their ratings and while two found at least some correlation...
Now in its 9th year, the RegTech Summit in New York will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the North American capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now...