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GLEIF Open Mumbai Office as Indian Use of LEIs Surges
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has expanded its operations to India, opening an office in Mumbai where it intends to gain a deeper understanding of local markets. The non-profit organisation, which provides universal identification codes for companies and assets to make it easier to verify and map data to them, said India has…
Refreshed DTCC Fixed-Income Master Data Updates More Frequently
Bond traders and investors can now receive more frequently updated data on assets with an enhancement to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)’s security master data file service. DTCC’s Corporate Fixed Income Premium Intraday Reference Data has been retooled to refresh every half-hour 23 times a day, the organisation said. It will also include…
BlueFlame AI Brings Light to Opaque Private Markets
Private markets are relative newcomers to digital transformation, despite being rich in data drawn from the corners of the economy that the more technologically advanced public markets can’t reach. The founders of young start-up BlueFlame AI recognised this gap in the financial services market and have created a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platform that enables…
Assessing Nature Loss Impact: Bloomberg Unveils Latest Biodiversity Gauge
Early this year Bloomberg announced it would incorporate the London Natural History Museum’s Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) into its own data products. The BII is a gauge of biodiversity change across the world, which the world-famous museum said offers a health check on nature. Now Bloomberg has launched its first product built specifically to utilise…
MDXT Acquires UK Spreadsheet Optimiser Schematiq
MDX Technology (MDXT), a provider of data distribution and collaboration technology to financial institutions, has acquired spreadsheet optimisation technology firm Schematiq, creating a platform that it says lets clients share data and models faster and more efficiently. Recognising that the financial industry still relies heavily on spreadsheets to organise and manage their data, MDXT said…
S&P Global Unveils Scientist-led Climate Research Group
S&P Global has established a Climate Centre of Excellence, bringing together scientists and strategists to help guide the data and ratings company’s environment and nature research and methodologies. The centre will harness the company’s market and ESG datasets to generate sustainability-linked information that can be used by clients of the company’s S&P Global Market Intelligence,…
Bloomberg Enhances Credit Risk Signalling Tools That Forecast the Barbie Party
Barbie and her pals no doubt threw a huge party when the company that makes the iconic doll, Mattel, saw its debt upgraded from junk to investment grade by the three major credit rating firms earlier this year. Had they spoken with some market watchers, however, the Barbieland party could have started months – maybe…
Modern Data Management Under the Microscope
The biggest names in data management gathered in New York for A-Team Group’s 14th annual Data Management Summit New York City. In the second part of our account of the major discussion points at the day-long event, guest speakers and panellists talk self-service analytics, regulatory data and tooling implementation. What are the challenges of delivering a…
ESG Data Quality Still Dogs Asset Owners Even as They Boost Allocations
A lack of standardised and reliable data continues to pose a barrier to asset owners’ pursuit of ESG-linked investment strategies, according to a poll that nevertheless found surging incorporation of sustainability considerations in allocation decisions. The latest and third annual Voice of the Asset Owner Survey by Morningstar found that almost 40 per cent of…
Institutional Digital Assets Handbook 2024
Despite the setback of the FTX collapse, institutional interest in digital assets has grown markedly in the past 12 months, with firms of all sizes now acknowledging participation in some form. While as recently as a year ago, institutional trading firms were taking a cautious stance toward their use, the acceptance of tokenisation, stablecoins, and…