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Similarweb Digital Intelligence Gives Funds Insight into Company Performance and Market Trends
Similarweb, a Tel Aviv, Israel headquartered provider of digital intelligence for hedge funds and investment banks is building its brand in Europe on the back of success in the US where its alternative dataset is used by hundreds of fund managers including most of the big names, and investment banks including JP Morgan and Citi…
Recorded Webinar: Sourcing and managing ESG disclosure data to ensure compliance
As interest in ESG investing continues to accelerate, asset managers must source and manage increasing volumes of ESG disclosure data. Data volumes are not the only problem, with different types of ESG disclosure data, the need to master the data, and a lack of standards all contributing to the challenges of getting compliance right and…
GLEIF Publishes vLEI Governance Framework to Support Digital Identities for All Legal Entities
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has published its planned verifiable LEI (vLEI) Ecosystem Governance Framework and is working with capital markets regulators on how the vLEI could be a means of securing filings and reports. It has also presented the framework for review by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the LEI, which…
The Best Data Lineage Providers
Data lineage traces data from source to destination, noting every move the data makes and taking into account any changes to the data during its journey for full traceability. It is critical to regulatory compliance and data governance, and offers numerous business and operational benefits. The level of granularity and scope of the audit trail…
Datactics Builds New Solutions and Business on Basis of Flagship Self-Service Data Quality Platform
Datactics is heading into 2022 with the release of additional solutions on its flagship self-service data quality platform, a strong business performance in 2021, and new hires and offices to match. To find out more about the company’s plans for 2022 and highlights of 2021, we caught up with CEO Stuart Harvey and head of…
How to Source and Manage ESG Disclosure Data to Ensure Compliance
Huge steps have been made in recent years to bring environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting standards up to the level of reported financial information – but there is still a long way to go. A shortage of company data, a lack of harmonisation on standards, and the sheer volume of data being pumped out…
Happy 30th Anniversary ANNA
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) celebrates its 30th anniversary this week. The association was founded on 29 January 1992 by 22 National Numbering Agencies (NNAs) following publication of the International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) standard ISO 6166 on the 1 November 1981, a standard driven by industry need to improve cross-border trading. ANNA…
Origin Connects to Clearstream API to Launch Instant-ISIN 2.0 for Eurobonds
Debt and capital markets fintech Origin has launched a new version of instant code allocation utility Instant-ISIN 2.0, which now offers both allocation and activation of ISINs for Eurobond issuance, while also providing CFI and FISN codes automatically. The new feature, which will be made available to Origin Dealer customers, will return an ISIN instantly…
GLEIF CEO Stephan Wolf Discusses Progress of the LEI and Plans to Increase its Growth
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) crossed the 2 million mark of identifiers issued, experienced organic growth of 15% despite no major regulatory implementations, and held a steady 65% renewal rate through 2021. Moving into 2022, projects set up by the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) to expand LEI issuance are expected to take off, and the…
SmartStream Air Version 6 Takes Automation and Exceptions Management to the Next Level
SmartStream Technologies has released Version 6 of its SmartStream Air cloud-native AI data reconciliations solution. The release includes two new features: enhanced exceptions management capabilities; and attribute-by-attribute matching. The exceptions management enhancement increases automation, while the solution’s AI capabilities manage discrepancies during the reconciliations process by creating exception cases. Users can track the status of…