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S&P Global and IHS Markit Close $44 Billion Merger
S&P Global and IHS Markit have finalised their merger, a little more than a year since it was formally announced December 2020 and following regulatory approval for the companies to close the deal from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and the European Commission. The $44 billion merger, the biggest ever seen in capital markets,…
Databricks Lakehouse for Financial Services Differentiates with an Open Source, Multi-Cloud Platform Hosting Use-Case Accelerators
Following the release of Databricks’ Lakehouse for Financial Services, Data Management Insight caught up with Junta Nakai, financial services global industry lead, to discuss the details of the open source, multi-cloud platform that includes use-case accelerators, real-time analytics, and AI, and is designed to help financial institutions modernise and innovate their approach to data. The…
ANNA Plans Implementation of Revised ISO 6166 ISIN Standard in February 2023
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) will implement the revised ISO 6166 International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) standard on 2 February 2023. The revised standard was published in February 2021 and is designed to bring additional clarity and transparency to the identification and reporting of trades through the use of international standards. Highlights of…
GoldenSource Integrates FactSet Truvalue Labs ESG Data into ESG Impact Product
GoldenSource has integrated FactSet content, including Truvalue Labs ESG data, into its ESG Impact product. The EDM solution provider will also be listed on the Open:FactSet Marketplace, a platform providing data applications and workflow solutions for investment professionals. GoldenSource ESG Impact is positioned to handle interlinked reference data, as well as fundamental and ESG data,…
DTCC Adds Treasury Kinetics, Makes Data Services Available in Snowflake Data Marketplace
DTCC has released DTCC Treasury Kinetics, a service providing access to US treasury transaction data and increasing transparency into the repurchase agreement (repo) market. Using data from the government securities division of DTCC subsidiary Fixed Income Clearing Corporation, the service provides a daily summary of aggregated and anonymised trade activity including number of trades, volumes,…
ActiveNav Discusses How to Eliminate ROT and Find Value in Unstructured Sensitive Data
Sensitive data is a sensitive subject. When it is breached, fallout for the firm involved spans from reputational damage to a dent in revenue. In worst case scenarios, small companies may not be able to recover. For large financial institutions, a breach of unstructured sensitive data can be a huge reputational and financial blow as…
Concern Remains as Delay, Revision and Data Hang Over FRTB
The proposed Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) was formulated to protect banks against a repeat of the devastation caused to the sector during the 2008 financial crisis. Initially suggested in 2012, it was drawn up in 2016 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), and revised in 2019 with a view to…
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…