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Your SFDR Framework Should Be Set, Even if Thresholds Aren’t

By Volker Lainer, VP of Product Management and Regulatory Affairs at GoldenSource. The EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and its related Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS), which are intended to promote environmentally and socially conscious investment in companies, came into play on 10 March, 2021. And with the further postponing of SFDR Level 2, with…

NeoXam Challenges Cost of Data with Savings Strategies, Software Solutions and Kalaxis Partnership

NeoXam has responded to client calls for help to manage the cost of data with a value proposition offering five savings strategies, tools to monitor and adjust data sourcing and spending, and most recently, a partnership with data cost optimisation consultancy Kalaxis. The company’s move to enable clients to not only manage their data, but…

RIMES Releases ESG Data Management Solution, Adds Fitch ESG Scores to Data Sources

RIMES has released an ESG data management solution powered by its managed data services platform and offering asset managers data needed to evaluate the sustainable credentials of any asset. The solution is based on ESG data sourced from a number of vendors including MSCI, OWL analytics, FTSE Russell, Sustainalytics, J.P. Morgan and, most recently, Fitch…

Broadridge Integrates OpenFin into Portfolio Management System

Broadridge Financial Solutions plans to integrate OpenFin’s operating system into its next generation portfolio and order management system, allowing users to benefit from componentised apps with configurable layouts and intuitive workflows. The partnership should help portfolio managers manage their desktop real estate more efficiently and increase productivity by reducing effort and time needed to navigate…

KX Names ex-TIBCO Executive Mark Bannon as President of Sales, North America

Mark Bannon has joined KX as president of sales, North America, with responsibility for the company’s growth in the region. He will partner the North America sales organisation across finance and other industries to meet growing need for ultra-high performance, real-time data analytics. Bannon joins KX from TIBCO and brings a mix of deep industry…

BNP Paribas Selects InvestCloud for Client Relationship and Lifecycle Management Services

BNP Paribas Wealth Management has selected InvestCloud to build client relationship and lifecycle management services to onboard clients who are high net worth individuals (HNWIs). The selection was made on the basis of InvestCloud’s automation technology, which is expected to bring operational efficiency to onboarding HNWIs, ease of integration with existing systems using InvestCloud’s modular…

Unifying Client Data to Accelerate Insights and Deliver Better Experiences

As they switch focus from addressing regulatory imperatives to producing superior client outcomes, buy-side firms have an opportunity to leverage internal and external data sets to deliver unique and timely investment research and analysis in support of rapid innovation and compelling new product offerings. But faced with ongoing business challenges in the form of margin…

Refinitiv Highlights Data Governance, Cloud and Operational Resilience as Key Components of Connected Data and Revenue Generation

Connecting data across a financial services organisation from the back office, through the middle-office and on to the front-office can deliver operational resilience, business agility, and opportunities to generate revenue – it can also be difficult to achieve in a market characterised by fragmented systems, a lack of data consistency, and resistance to change. A…

Informatica Offers Data Governance & Catalog As-a-Service in the Cloud

Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management provider, has released a data governance and catalog as-a-service solution designed to help firms modernise their data and analytics governance programmes. The solution brings together data cataloging, data quality, data, and AI governance capabilities with cloud native unified metadata-driven intelligence. The Cloud Data Governance & Catalog solution is a…

SS&C Upgrades Chorus Intelligent Automation Platform to Accelerate STP

SS&C Technologies has upgraded its Chorus intelligent automation platform for asset and wealth management to accelerate straight-through-processing (STP) and improve integration between the platform and the company’s document automation solution. SS&C Chorus offers standalone predesigned applications for rapid deployment and is designed to accelerate STP, reduce operational risk, enhance digital customer journeys, and speed up…