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ANNA Service Bureau Migrates to Cloud as Part of Enhancement and Modernisation Programme
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) has improved and modernised the ANNA Service Bureau (ASB). Key changes include the migration of the platform to a cloud-based infrastructure, a new user interface with an integrated data quality dashboard, a data challenge ticketing system, and enhanced search and download capabilities. Additional data elements related to the…
Recorded Webinar: Sanctions – The new pre-trade challenge for the buy-side
Sanctions screening at the security level is a relatively recent requirement for the buy-side. It dives deeper than traditional KYC and AML screening and is immensely challenging as firms must monitor frequently changing sanctions lists, source up-to-date sanctions data and beneficial ownership data, and integrate these to screen growing lists of potentially sanctioned securities. As…
Sanctions Screening for Indirect Investments – The Buy Side’s New Compliance Challenge
The global political climate over the past few years has sparked a jump in the use of sanctions to attempt to influence the behaviour of players in the geopolitical landscape. While sell-side firms are familiar with sanctions and have long been required to monitor the securities they trade, own or recommend to clients to ensure…
Arabesque Releases AI Powered Asset Management Solution AutoCIO
Arabesque has released AutoCIO, an AI powered asset management solution that can generate and operate millions of customised and sustainable active equity investment strategies. Developed by Arabesque AI, part of the Arabesque Group that also includes Arabesque Asset Management, the solution enables asset managers and investment professionals to configure and build customised active strategies that…
FactSet Teams Up with Macrobond to Offer Insight into Global Equity Markets
Macrobond, a provider of global economic, aggregate financial and sector data for finance professionals, has teamed up with FactSet to provide top-down researchers with insight into the dynamics of global equity markets. The company has worked with FactSet to build an aggregate version of the latter’s Quant Factor Library, a point-in-time database of factor insights…
Moody’s Acquires Climate and Natural Disaster Risk Modelling Specialist RMS
Moody’s Corporation has completed the acquisition of RMS, a global provider of climate and natural disaster risk modeling and analytics. The acquisition expands Moody’s insurance data and analytics business, and accelerates the development of the company’s global integrated risk capabilities to address the next generation of risk assessment.
The Data Struggle is Real
By Tom McHugh, CEO and Co-founder, FINBOURNE Technology. I recently headlined a session at this year’s InvestOps Connect event, where we talked at length about the data struggle. I’ve been in this industry for longer than I’d like to admit and the fact that we’re still talking about data challenges in 2021 is an unfortunate…
Hargreaves Lansdown Selects Investment Control Systems for Data Management, Analysis and Reporting
Hargreaves Lansdown, the UK’s largest digital wealth management service, has selected Investment Control Systems (ICS) as its partner for investment data management, analysis and reporting. ICS was selected after a vendor evaluation and peer review that started in early 2021. Hargreaves Lansdown will initially use the ICS ATHENA cloud-based solution as a centralised platform for…
Recorded Webinar: Strategies, technologies and services for successful corporate actions automation
Rising volumes and increasing complexity of corporate actions are challenging market participants’ efforts to reconcile data, automate corporate actions processing, and contain costs. The culprits causing these challenges include legacy systems, missing skills, manual processes, data quality issues, and a lack of standardisation. Added to these is the increasing complexity of corporate actions such as…
Discuss the Details of ESG Data Strategy at A-Team’s Data Management Summit USA Virtual
Interested in ESG data strategy? Look no further than A-Team Group’s forthcoming Data Management Summit USA Virtual, which will include a session considering key issues of ESG data strategy including data sourcing and reporting, how to set up an ESG data platform, and the potential of machine learning, AI and data visualisation tools to help…