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Toronto Exchanges Adopt IHS Markit for ESG Reporting and Data Distribution
IHS Markit is making its ESG Reporting Repository platform available free of charge to corporations listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and its TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) under a strategic alliance aimed at helping TSX-listed companies navigate emerging ESG reporting requirements. The IHS Markit ESG Reporting Repository is a multi-framework ESG reporting and data…
Advancing Regulatory Data Collections Systems
By Ken Lamar, Founder and Principal Partner, Lamar Associates LLC (With Robert Lee, Executive Director, North America Client Engagement, AxiomSL). Regulators are beginning a journey to design the next generation of data collection systems. A critical aspect of the design process is the need for new data capabilities to effectively conduct supervisory activities to ensure…
Recorded Webinar: Data management for ESG requirements
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing is moving into the mainstream, requiring asset managers to develop ESG strategies that deliver for both the firm and its investors. While these strategies can outperform those that do not include ESG factors, there is no clear route to success in an immature market that is only just beginning…
Financial Crime Specialist Plenitude Consulting Ramps Up Executive Team
The appointment late last month of HSBC UK’s former head of financial crime compliance, Allan Clare, as senior advisor is the latest in a series of high-level appointments by financial crime risk and compliance specialist Plenitude Consulting. The hires come as the firm ramps up its RegSight obligations management platform, which helps firms identify rules…
FundApps Gets ‘Significant’ Growth Funding from Scottish Equity Investment
London-based FundApps has secured a ‘significant’ investment from Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) to fund future growth. The company will use the funds for development of its core Shareholding Disclosure, Sensitive Industries and Position Limits product suite, as well as expansion of its client base of 100 or so buy-side and sell-side firms. “Having bootstrapped our…
Relativity Teams Up with Proofpoint to Address Surveillance and Storage Regs
US surveillance technology specialist Relativity has forged a strategic deal to integrate Proofpoint Inc.’s Enterprise Archive solution with its own Relativity Trace AI-driven surveillance platform. Together, the two companies plan to help regulated entities address the archiving challenges posed by the SEC and Finra, as well as rules around market manipulation and insider trading, such…
One Year On: Banks Resume Prioritization of FRTB, but Same Challenges Persist
By: Essan Soobratty, Regulatory Product Manager, and Eugene Stern, Head of Market Risk Product, Bloomberg. One year on from the start of the global pandemic which sent global markets into turmoil and prompted regulators to introduce a range of emergency measures to support the financial system and the broader economy, banks are continuing their return…
Recorded Webinar: Improving data integrity to address regulatory requirements
Financial institutions today face a global regulatory landscape characterised by rigorous and varied reporting requirements across their businesses. Reporting challenges include completing more data fields across more lines of business with greater frequency, adding complexity and cost. At the same time, there is waning tolerance among supervisory bodies for errors, issues or delays – as…
Bank of England Progresses Data Standards Plan to Improve Data Collection at Lower Cost to Industry
The Bank of England is pressing ahead with plans to deliver data standards for data collection based on its vision that ‘the bank gets the data it needs to fulfil its mission, at the lowest possible cost to industry’. It acknowledges the challenges of setting standards, such as coordinating collective action, and says it will…
Can Asset Managers Finally Find a Cure for their Reporting Headaches?
Clement Miglietti, Chief Product Officer, NeoXam. It is hard to think of another issue that has been deliberated over more in recent times than the need for accurate reporting. The issue is, as with so many issues relating to market infrastructure, the bigger the problem the harder it is to actually come up with a…