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Critical but Challenging – Managing Unstructured Data: A-Team Webinar Preview
Unstructured data accounts for an estimated 80 per cent of companies’ data estate and the volume of that information is forecast to grow by a third each year. Consequently, management of the class of data that is being culled from sources as diverse as financial reports and social media posts has become a pressing challenge….
Data’s Role in AI Transition and Value Creation: Data Management Summit London Preview
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence by financial institutions has required a heavy data management uplift as organisations have upgraded their systems to incorporate the new technology. It has also provided greater opportunity to squeeze even more value from data by enabling its efficient deployment across enterprises. Just how companies manage data for AI to…
Challenges of the New Regulatory Landscape: Data Management Summit London Preview
The regulatory landscape for financial institutions has rarely been in greater flux than now, placing new challenges on the technology and data that will be critical to satisfying the requirements of overseers. While digital innovations are offering organisations the opportunity to meet their compliance obligations with greater accuracy and efficiency, they are also encouraging regulators…
Bloomberg Expands Climate Risk Offering with MARS Enhancement
Bloomberg clients can now use the New York-based company’s MARS risk management tool to assess the threats to their portfolios from climate change. MARS Climate, an addition to the data behemoth’s physical and transition risk suite of analytics, offers climate scenario analyses based on the framework devised by the Network for Greening Financial System (NGFS)….
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…
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),…
The Data Year Ahead: More Data Formats and Use Cases
In the second part of our preview of the next 12 months in data management, we take in the views of experts who offered Data Management Insight their thoughts on a range of developments, including the increased use of unstructured data, the wider application of data sets and distribution challenges. 1 Data Governance, Quality and Technologies Ian…
2024: A Year of Increasing Data Complexity
One thing was apparent in the data management space over the past year; the job of chief data officers became increasingly complex as the volume of data their organisations ingested swelled and the uses to which it was put expanded. All that despite the flowering of technologies with the potential to make life easier for…