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ICO Recommends Privacy Enhancing Technologies

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is recommending organisations start using privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) to share personal information safely, securely and anonymously. These types of technologies open unprecedented opportunities for organisations to harness the power of personal data through innovative and trustworthy applications, by allowing them to share, link and analyse people’s personal information without…

ESMA Data Strategy Proposes More Tech, Less Cost in Reporting Compliance

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its data strategy for 2023 to 2028. Key agenda points include using new data-related technologies, reducing reporting compliance costs for regulated entities, enabling effective use of data at both EU and national level, and making data more broadly available to the public. The five-year ESMA data…

Informatica’s Intent to Acquire Privitar Extends Data Access, Privacy and Governance Capabilities of Cloud Platform

Informatica is planning to extend the data access management, privacy and governance capabilities integrated in its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) following disclosure of its intent to acquire Privitar. Privitar was founded in London in 2014 with a mission to help data-driven organisations address data privacy concerns and comply with legislation such as General Data…

Quest Software Adds Data Marketplace to Data Intelligence Software Portfolio

Quest Software, a systems management, data protection and security software provider, has added a data marketplace based on the concept of ‘shop, share, and compare’ to its offerings. The data marketplace is included in version 13.0 of Quest’s erwin Data Intelligence solution, and is designed to help data users, stewards and owners find, understand, leverage…

KX Releases PyKX Python Interface to kdb+ for Developer Community, Accelerates Data Science Workflows

KX, provider of the kdb+ time-series database, Data Timehouse, and KDB.AI vector database, has released a new version of PyKX, its Python first interface to kdb+, with a development-only licence. The release expands the reach of KX technology to the more than 10 million strong Python developer community. By giving Python developers the ability to…

Bloomberg Offers Funds Data Solution via Data License

Bloomberg has released Funds Data Solution providing funds and exchange traded products (ETPs) data designed to help clients act on changing investment opportunities and support end-to-end workflows spanning portfolio construction, risk management, due diligence and operations. The solution covers over 135,000 unique funds and 12,000 ETPs that are available as foundational data, holdings, corporate actions,…

Solving the Enterprise Data Challenge for Institutional Investors

Institutional investors are evolving under pressure from a range of emergent externalities that are prompting many to assume new roles and processes, some of which have traditionally been the preserve of asset managers. Enabled by data-led technology, they are making more direct investments and managing their portfolios in-house. At the same time, they are streamlining…

ICE Benchmark Administration Provides Update on LIBOR Cessation and Synthetic LIBOR

ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA), the authorised and regulated administrator of LIBOR, has provided an update on LIBOR settings yet to be ceased and synthetic LIBOR methodologies. The UK FCA issued its final messages on LIBOR at the end of May 2023, prior to the end of the US dollar LIBOR panel and reminding market participants…

KX Collaborates with AWS to Make kdb Insights a Managed Service on Amazon FinSpace

KX, creator of the kdb+ time series and analytics database, has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make kdb Insights available as a fully managed service on Amazon FinSpace. Managed kdb Insights enables investment banks and hedge funds to launch, configure, run, and scale capital markets analytics and AI workloads with just a…

Solidatus Offers Attribute Lineage for IBM z/OS Mainframes

Solidatus has added attribute lineage for IBM z/OS mainframes, enabling users to automatically map mainframe metadata into Solidatus and create active blueprints from which they can derive actionable insights, de-risk operations, access visualisation, and plan for changes such as migrating to the cloud. “I’m hugely excited by this initiative to automate the process of visualising…