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Businesses Struggling with ESG Data that will Aid SFDR Compliance
Most businesses are struggling to prepare their data to meet a new European regulation that is designed in part to deliver huge troves of corporate ESG information into financial institutions’ systems. More than four-fifths of companies questioned in a study by data mastering company Semarchy said they lack confidence in their data management capabilities to…
ICE to Scrape Reddit Communities for Market-Useful Insights
US financial data and technology provider Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is to harvest insights and content from millions of posts made daily to the Reddit social media platform, which it will package into market-useful data products. ICE said it would access Reddit’s Data API to “research, create and distribute new data and analytics products for the…
Accelex Says its AI Agent Can Tame The ‘Nastiest’ Corner of Data Management
Unstructured data is the bugbear of private market data managers, but one of the latest entrant to the space claims to have a solution that can tame the “nastiest” part of data retrieval – private market fund quarterly reports. Accelex is a London-based artificial intelligence (AI) focussed FinTech that has launched a platform that can prise market-relevant…
Zema Global Chief Girds for Soaring Demand for Energy Data
Since its acquisition of Morningstar’s commodity information business late last year, energy industry intelligence provider Zema Global has become an important data feed for financial institutions that invest in the net-zero transition and to those trading in renewables, biofuels and fossil fuels. The transaction was a prescient one. While the Colorado, US-headquartered company has been…
RepRisk Data Made Available to Bloomberg Clients
Bloomberg clients can now access RepRisk’s business conduct and ESG risk data, with Data License and Terminal subscribers able to gain insights into more than 100 risk factors across 28,000 companies. Switzerland-based RepRisk’s business conduct and ESG risk information is updated daily and integrated into Bloomberg’s data pool that feeds clients’ analytics and other processes.
Data Convergence Initiative Seeks to Bring ESG Clarity to Private Markets
Private market data tools have become a fixture of the data management industry, as evidenced by year-ahead predictions from experts who routinely put it near the top of their lists of anticipated developments in 2025. A slew of new products have also been launched to cater to the growing demand for information from general partners (GPs),…
Strong Governance, Privacy Policies Can Negate AI Risks, Informatica Says
Debate about the limitations of artificial intelligence (AI) in data management was stoked further this week when a leading vendor warned that applications built on nascent large language model (LLM) technology could pose an “existential threat” to companies if not deployed thoughtfully. Jason du Preez, vice president of privacy and security at cloud data management…
FinScan Data Quality Chief Seeks to End Compliance Failure Excuses
The dog ate my homework. The train was delayed. The postman mislaid your birthday card. At one time or another, we’ve all used a weak excuse to forestall censure for an error of behaviour or judgement. And mostly, we’ve got away with it. In financial regulatory compliance, however, excuses won’t wash. Especially when it comes…
GLEIF Begins a New Decade in Growth Mode
The Global Legal Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) enters its second decade this month with its novel system of identifiers for everything from companies and their financial instruments to real assets fast becoming a global standard. While the next five years are expected to see yet more entities join the GLEIF’s open data project, the organisation’s immediate…
Snowflake Bets it can Bring the Promise of AI to Wary Organisations
Snowflake has rooted its offerings more deeply in artificial intelligence, betting that its data cloud platform can deliver the promise of the technology at a time when many organisations are reappraising their approach to AI implementation. Among a flurry of new service announcements made at the end of last year, Snowflake unveiled plans to launch…