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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.
Tikehau Capital Selects NeoXam DataHub for Transformation Programme
NeoXam’s DataHub platform has been selected by global alternative asset management group Tikehau Capital to support an IT and operational transformation programme across its global multi-fund business. The NeoXam solution will act as a central repository for Tikehau Capital, creating a single point of truth for securities, business entities, indices and benchmarks, and portfolios. NeoXam…
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…
ICE Adds Weather Forecast Data to Connect Platform
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has extended provision of ESG data with the release of weather forecast data on its ICE Connect platform. ICE Connect users can connect streaming weather data to streaming tick information, making it easier to see how changing weather forecasts influence live market prices. All weather forecasts are archived and weather observations extend…
SimCorp Adds Qontigo Portfolio Optimisation to Open Platform
SimCorp has partnered Qontigo, a provider of analytics and indices and part of the Deutsche Börse Group, to offer its clients a fully managed portfolio optimisation, risk management and modelling service within SimCorp Dimension. The partnership is one of many SimCorp is making to complement its own front office suite with a choice of tools…
SIX Survey Shows Shortfall in Automated Corporate Actions Processing
Corporate actions continue to be processed manually despite the need for automation to meet industry demand for near real-time delivery of the data, reduced operating costs and improved regulatory compliance. A survey by SIX – its second annual survey on corporate actions that was carried out between March and May 2021 among global asset managers,…