The UK’s accounting overseer has issued the first set of guidelines on gathering, using and reporting ESG data. The Financial Reporting Council’s initial report focuses on producing better data to improve decision making among financial institutions. Describing the ESG data landscape as “complex” and “with challenges”, the report offers solutions to overcoming these shortcomings.
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) strengthens the best execution requirement embedded in MiFID by expanding disclosure. Among the directive’s requirements are provisions to ensure investment firms provide appropriate information to clients on their order execution policy and publish a list of the top five execution venues used in the previous year for...
Sustainability data and RegTech provider Diginex’s recent acquisition of The Remedy Project labour and human rights advisory illustrates how ESG is transforming from an investment strategy to a risk mitigation objective among financial companies. The London-based company, which last year purchased sustainability data and analytics provider Matter DK, anticipates that the The Remedy Project’s expertise...
Now in its 16th year, the Data Management Summit (DMS) in London brings together the European capital markets enterprise data management community, to explore how data strategy is evolving to drive business outcomes and speed to market in changing times.
This eighth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook is a ‘must-have’ for capital markets participants during this period of unprecedented change. Available free of charge, it profiles every regulation that impacts capital markets data management practices giving you: A detailed overview of each regulation with key dates, data and data management implications, links to...