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Research Reveals Increased Use of Blockchain in Asset Management

Research by Global Palladium Fund reveals that 90% of professional investors believe that over the next five years asset managers will come under growing pressure from clients to use blockchain technology to provide greater security and transparency. Asked why blockchain will become increasingly important for asset managers, 51% of professional investors interviewed for the research…

Behind the Scenes at Solidatus Following £14 Million Series A Funding

Having reported on Solidatus’ £14 million Series A funding last week, this week we go behind the scenes to talk to the company’s founders Philip Dutton and Philip Miller about their business philosophy, ambitions for Solidatus, and the challenges and opportunities of working with investors and growing the company through lockdown. After careers in financial…

SIX Releases ESG Indices for Swiss Equity And Bond Markets

SIX has drawn on data sources including the independent Swiss sustainability rating agency Inrate to offer two ESG indices for equities based on the Swiss Performance Index (SPI) and 20 ESG indices for bonds based on the Swiss Bond Index (SBI). Inrate has developed an ESG Impact Rating solution that measures positive and negative impacts…

GLEIF Details Technologies Underlying Digital Version of LEI, the Verifiable LEI

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has published issuance and technical infrastructure models for the verifiable LEI (vLEI) system it introduced back in December 2020. The vLEI is a secure digital attestation of a conventional LEI and is designed to extend the use of the identifier and, ultimately, enable instant and automated identity verification…

Solidatus Raises £14 Million to Build Out Next-Generation Data Lineage and Metadata Management Platform

Solidatus has raised £14 million in Series A funding led by AlbionVC, the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group, and also including HSBC Ventures and Citi. HSBC was an early adopter of Solidatus’ data lineage solution, and Citi the first strategic investor in the company in August 2020 following successful and ongoing implementation of…

DSB Managing Director Emma Kalliomaki Outlines Issues in Progressing the UPI

As the Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB’s) first round of industry consultation on fee principles for the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) plays out, we talked to Emma Kalliomaki, managing director of ANNA and the DSB, about some of the issues involved in getting the UPI up, running and ready for its Q3 2022 release. Early conversations…

Observational Learning Boosts Data Quality, Improves Reconciliations, Cuts Costs of Exceptions

Large data volumes and manual data validation techniques are making it difficult for firms to achieve levels of data quality required to support seamless transaction processing and regulatory reporting. The problem is exacerbated by MiFID II and other emerging regulations that impose new processes on transaction reporting, including reconciliation of transactions from the trade repository…

Moody’s DataHub Opens Door for Data Scientists to Explore Billions of Data Points

Moody’s integration of data from across the company into DataHub, a cloud-based data exploration and analytical platform, provides data scientists and analysts across financial services firms with a single location to access, analyse, model and consume billions of data assets. Twelve Moody’s datasets, including entity data from Bureau van Dijk’s Orbis database and ESG data from…

Octopai Supports Cloud Migration with Cloud Native Data Lineage for Business Intelligence

As data volumes grow, new sources emerge, and firms migrate to the cloud, data lineage has become essential to mapping, visualising and understanding data across the enterprise, and crucial to providing business users with trusted information. Octopai, which came to market in 2018, offers automated metadata-based data lineage with a focus on analysing and understanding…

Broadridge Partners Third Economy to Offer ESG Advisory Services

Broadridge Financial Solutions has weighed into the ESG investment market with advisory services offered in partnership with Third Economy, a provider of sustainable investment research. The ESG advisory services combine Broadridge’s data, technology and communications expertise and Third Economy’s proprietary methodology for systematically evaluating sustainable investment efforts of companies and enabling clients to move from…