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LSEG-D&B Collaboration Underscores Demand for Private Market Data
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has joined a growing list of major vendors and institutions that have launched data products to help asset managers better assess private markets. London-based LSEG has collaborated with private-market specialist Dun & Bradstreet to help its users better identify opportunities and risks within the alternatives space. The partnership comes…
Ensuring Data Integrity in Finance – A Foundation for Efficiency and Trust
By Neil Sandle, director of product management at Gresham. In today’s financial landscape, data integrity is more than a regulatory requirement — it is the backbone of efficient operations and trustworthy decision making. Ensuring that data remains accurate, consistent, and reliable throughout its lifecycle is essential for financial institutions looking to maintain operational excellence, manage…
Assessing Nature Loss Impact: Bloomberg Unveils Latest Biodiversity Gauge
Early this year Bloomberg announced it would incorporate the London Natural History Museum’s Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) into its own data products. The BII is a gauge of biodiversity change across the world, which the world-famous museum said offers a health check on nature. Now Bloomberg has launched its first product built specifically to utilise…
S&P Global Unveils Scientist-led Climate Research Group
S&P Global has established a Climate Centre of Excellence, bringing together scientists and strategists to help guide the data and ratings company’s environment and nature research and methodologies. The centre will harness the company’s market and ESG datasets to generate sustainability-linked information that can be used by clients of the company’s S&P Global Market Intelligence,…
ESG Data Quality Still Dogs Asset Owners Even as They Boost Allocations
A lack of standardised and reliable data continues to pose a barrier to asset owners’ pursuit of ESG-linked investment strategies, according to a poll that nevertheless found surging incorporation of sustainability considerations in allocation decisions. The latest and third annual Voice of the Asset Owner Survey by Morningstar found that almost 40 per cent of…
Greenwashing Declines for First Time in 6 Years, Says Report with Significance for Investment Data
Greenwashing among companies worldwide has declined in the past year, according to the latest annual report on the topic, providing valuable insight into a key sustainability risk for financial institutions and non-financial corporations. The study, conducted by Switzerland-based ESG risk data specialist RepRisk, examines greenwashing by analyzing publicly available sources. Their report found that there…
A-Team Group Names Winners of its Data Management Insight Awards – USA 2024
The waiting in over! A-Team Group has announced the winners of its Data Management Insight Awards – USA 2024. The awards, which acknowledge leading data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across the USA, were presented by Andrew Delaney, president and chief content officer at A-Team Group. The winners were named at…
ESG Software Firm Datamaran Doubles Funding in $33m Financing Round
ESG software maker Datamaran has received a US$33 million financial injection via a Series C funding round. The facility will help accelerate the London-based company’s expansion in the US and build out generative artificial intelligence capabilities. The latest funding round was led by Morgan Stanley Expansion capital and doubles Datamaran’s total external financial commitments. Datamaran…
QuantCube Tackles ESG with Macroeconomic Data
Macroeconomic research specialist QuantCube Technology is targeting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) compliance with a new asset-mapping database aimed at helping financial institutions monitor the risk exposure of their physical assets. The tool focuses on the data gap faced by banks, insurance companies, asset managers, and corporates in assessing (ESG) risks at a granular level,…
ISS ESG Adds Biodiversity Data to Fund Rating and Screening Tools
ISS ESG has incorporated nature-focussed data into its ESG funds assessment tool. Investors can use the ISS ESG Biodiversity Fund Screening dataset to establish the risks from nature and water loss faced by equity and bond funds. It expands the sustainable investing arm of ISS STOXX’s Fund Rating and Fund Screening tools, which offer clients…