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Style Analytics and Sustainalytics Integrate ESG Data in Skyline
Style Analytics, a factor-based analysis software provider, has made a distribution agreement with Sustainalytics, an ESG research, ratings, and analysis firm, to offer ESG considerations to investors. Customers will have access to a portfolio level view of Sustainalytics’ company ESG data using Style Analytics’ Skyline product. As a result, investors will gain perspective into the…
Thinknum $11.6 million Funding Supports Penetration into New Markets
Thinknum, a provider of alternative data culled from the web, has received $11.6 million in a Series A funding round. The company plans to use the capital to fund its expansion into the institutional investment community and corporate market. Thinknum’s software-as-a-service platform evaluates a wide array of public online sources to generate datasets. One example…
Archax Partners Tokeny to Harness Digital Securities
Archax is partnering Tokeny, a compliant tokenisation platform delivering institutional grade solutions in the issuance, lifecycle management and secondary trading of digital securities. The partnership ensures that Tokeny’s issued security tokens will be listed on the Archax exchange. Luc Falempin, Tokeny CEO, says that for blockchain to become the preferred infrastructure in the industry, it…
MDXT Launches IOWA.rocks Financial Data Marketplace
Data distribution specialist MDX Technology has launched a financial information marketplace that aims to bring together buyers and sellers of content in a single cloud-based environment that offers more flexible delivery and commercial options than traditional sources. The new entity – IOWA.rocks – is underpinned by MDXT’s data delivery technology, and comes to market with…
FTSE Russell Works with DAR Data Services on Indicative Digital Assets Index
FTSE Russell is working with DAR Data Services (DAR) to introduce an indicative FTSE Digital Assets Index. The index will be used to evaluate and test a benchmark for the most actively traded digital assets, and is designed to help the establishment of industry standards and transparency in the digital assets market. The indicative index,…
Glue42 Contends for the Desktop Application Interoperability Market
Glue42 is pushing into the desktop application interoperability market, contending with OpenFin, and to a lesser extent ChartIQ, and naming JPMorgan as its largest customer. The company started to build the Glue42 platform – Glue for interoperability and 42 the answer to life, the universe and everything – in 2012 and is now on its…
Infragistics and Adaptable Tools Bring Integrated Charting to Data Grids
Infragistics, a user interface component provider, and Adaptable Tools, provider of the HTML5 data grid add-on AdaptableBlotter, have allied to offer integrated, live charting within data grids. Users will be able to switch between charting and table views, and use other features that allow them to manipulate data. Some of the key features include live…
Archax Partners Quod Financial for Trading Functionality
Archax, the institutional digital securities exchange set to launch in 2019, has partnered Quod Financial, a trading platform provider to the buy-side and sell-side, to integrate exchange access with elements of the Quod platform including connectivity, order management, smart order routing and trade automation. Graham Rodford, CEO at Archax, says the company wanted to integrate…
Insightful Technology Launches New Feature-Rich Version of Compliance & Surveillance Platform, Soteria
London-based Insightful Technology, a multimedia-focused FinTech provider, has embarked upon a major development and launch of its flagship compliant communications capture and intelligence solution, Soteria. A progression from the original technology that launched in 2011 as the world’s first Mobile Network Operator voice and SMS recording solution via Truphone, the subsequently developed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform…
Quandl Conference Hosts Alternative Data Vendors, Discusses Best Use of the Data
Alternative data will be key to driving alpha in the financial services sector, with data ranging from auto insurance policies to patents. These types of alternative data and others were discussed during Quandl’s third annual conference that brought together speakers including Adena Friedman, CEO of Nasdaq; Philip Brittan, CEO and founder of Crux Informatics; Matt…