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S&P Global Market Intelligence to Distribute Data Through Snowflake Cloud

S&P Global Market Intelligence today confirmed a new collaboration with cloud data specialist Snowflake to deliver S&P Global’s financial, textual, ESG and alternative data through Snowflake’s cloud platform. In doing so, S&P Global becomes the latest major data provider to join Snowflake’s growing mandate (along with FactSet, who teamed up with the cloud provider back…

Recorded Webinar: How Financial Institutions can adjust to working in the New Normal

The very sudden impact of Covid-19 and resultant shutdown of physical sites has stress-tested financial institutions and vendors to their limits. Now banks and firms are slowly starting to re-open offices. But what will the new normal look like and what steps should you be taking now to make the most of this situation? This…

Nice Actimize Moves Financial Crime Fighting to the Cloud

Financial crime and compliance giant Nice Actimize this month launched its brand new Xceed AI cloud-native platform, which it claims will revolutionise AML and fraud prevention for financial services by accelerating their cloud and digital transformations. The new solution integrates AI, data intelligence, behavioural analytics, and insights within a unified cloud platform designed for a…

OneTrust Launches Schrems II Solutions After Landmark EU Judgement

The landmark decision in July from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Schrems II has changed the way that organisations must manage personal data transfers – creating a whole raft of new challenges that firms must urgently address. To legally transfer personal data from the EU to a third country, it…

Snowflake to Go Public in Latest Cloud Twist

Snowflake Computing, one of the rising stars in the cloud firmament, on Monday this week filed for an IPO – heralding one of the most exciting public offerings in the tech space this year. The move marks a growing shift towards the cloud, exacerbated by the unique working conditions imposed by Covid-19, that has seen…

SimCorp Selects Microsoft Azure for its Move to the Public Cloud

Investment management solutions specialist SimCorp took the next step in its cloud migration this week, with the integration of its investment management platform with Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing platform with which Microsoft is hoping to win its ongoing Infrastructure-as-a-service (Iaas) battle against Amazon AWS and Google Cloud. The rapidly growing Iaas market, estimated by…

AI-Powered Data Extraction from Clearwater Analytics

Clearwater Analytics, a Software-as-a-service (Saas) buy-side data aggregation and portfolio reporting specialist, this week launches a new machine learning-based information extraction service. The data extraction solution focuses on data aggregation and normalization, drilling into transactional data to create a service that automates the ingestion of many types of data which are traditionally manually entered. The…

EDM Council Launches Cloud Data Management Work Group

Data management trade association the EDM Council this week launched the Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) Best Practices Work Group, with participation from players including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, as well as over 20 prominent financial industry firms. Co-chaired by Morgan Stanley and Refinitiv, project management is provided…

FeedStock Joins Red Hat Container Ecosystem

AI-driven data analytics platform Feedstock has completed Red Hat Container certification for its FeedStock Connector and has been published in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog. The certification enables FeedStock to use Red Hat’s container registry and deploy Red Hat certified containers in FeedStock’s client environments, enabling frictionless deployment at scale of its automated data management solutions….

ESMA Affirms Importance of Data-Driven Strategy for EU Digital Finance Initiative

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has submitted a response to the European Commission’s (EC) consultation on a new digital finance strategy for the European Union (EU), in which it reiterates the crucial importance of a data-driven financial services sector. Benefits of digitalisation, according to ESMA, would include increased speed,…