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Opensee Extends Reach with Office in New York
Opensee, a provider of self-service big data analytics for business users, has opened a US office, adding to headquarters in Paris and a location in London. The company says all its clients have a US presence and many of its executives previously worked in New York, making a third office a natural step. In the…
Recorded Webinar: Getting ready for Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and ESG – what action should asset managers be taking now?
Interest in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment has exploded in recent years, bringing with it regulation and a requirement for buy-side firms to develop ESG strategies and meet disclosure obligations. The sell-side can help here by integrating ESG data with traditional financial information, although the compliance burden remains with asset managers. The EU Sustainable…
How to Implement Strategies, Standards and Technologies for Best Practice Customer Data Management
Getting customer data right has been a problem for financial institutions for many years, but it is beginning to ease as regulation drives data aggregation underpinned by data governance, data standards emerge, and technologies replace manual processes. Getting management buy-in to improve customer data has also moved on and become more persuasive as conversations about…
Rimes Names Brad Hunt – Former Strategy Lead at BNY Mellon – as CEO
Rimes Technologies, a provider of managed data services, has appointed Brad Hunt as CEO. The company describes the appointment as a follow-on from a ‘significant growth investment’ in Rimes by Swedish private equity firm EQT Partners in February 2020. Rimes’ co-founder and former CEO, Christian Fauvelais, retains a role on the company’s board and will…
Investment Association Calls on G7 Summit to Escalate Commitment to Climate Change
The Investment Association (IA) is calling on this year’s G7 Summit to do more to tackle climate change by committing to improve companies’ reporting on climate-related risks. It proposes actions including support for the IFRS Sustainability Standards Board to develop sustainability reporting standards and increased cooperation between national regulators to implement the standards. The IA…
Recorded Webinar: Evolution of data management for the buy-side 2021
The buy-side faced a barrage of regulation in 2020 and is now under pressure to make post-Brexit adjustments and complete LIBOR transition by the end of 2021. To ensure compliance and ease the burden of in-house data management, many firms turned to outsourcing and managed services. But there is more to come, as buy-side firms…
Alveo Adds FactSet ESG Data Sets to Data Management Platform
Alveo has extended its commitment to ESG solutions with the integration of FactSet’s ESG data sets into its data management platform. It is also responding to buy-side firms’ requests to access, manipulate and analyse ESG data as part of broader efforts to achieve straight-through-processing for all reference data and deliver better data access to business…
SimCorp Collaborates with J.P. Morgan Securities Services to Deliver Front-to-Back Integration
SimCorp is collaborating with J.P. Morgan’s securities services to provide mutual clients with front-to-middle office and custody integration. The integration is live at an asset owner in Asia-Pacific and is designed to address costly and fragmented investment processes that contribute to operational risk by automating workflows and increasing data transparency. The companies suggest post-trade processing…
Franz Inc. and Smartlogic Collaborate to Deliver Scalable, Distributed, Semantic Knowledge Graph Solutions
Franz Inc., a provider of graph database technology, and Smartlogic, a provider of semantic AI technology, have collaborated to help large enterprises accelerate deployment of highly-scalable, distributed, semantic knowledge graph solutions that can process real-time information and retrieve knowledge from data stored across the enterprise and beyond. Both companies are based in California and have…
GoldenSource Innovates ESG Solution Based on Established Data Management Capabilities
GoldenSource has introduced ESG Impact, an ESG solution based on its established data management capabilities and designed to provide ESG data coverage, comparison, quality checks, and portfolio screening. The company is working with about 20 ESG data vendors to understand their materiality maps and use its established data model to correlate data at intake and…