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ESG Ratings Use Seen in Decline But AI, Increased Regulation Could Lift Their Popularity
ESG ratings still play an important part in investors’ due diligence processes, but they are no longer among the leading sources of information guiding their decisions, a recent survey has concluded. Increased scrutiny of ratings agencies by regulators and government bodies, as well as improved means of gathering ESG data, mainly through the use of…
73 Strings’ Structured Data ‘By-Product’ Fuels Workflow Acceleration After Callisto Acquisition
French startup 73 Strings realised a couple of years ago that one of the by-products of its valuation platform was a trove of structured, standardised and consistently labelled data drawn from private markets. This, reasoned Chief Executive and Co-Founder Yann Magnan, was financial gold in a part of the financial sector that has traditionally been…
12 Leading Analytics Data Providers Transforming Capital Markets
Data exists for a purpose – to be used – and in modern capital markets, there is an increasing array of use cases to which information can be deployed. Chief among those is analytics, divining meaning and insight from the vast volumes of data that is available internally and from third parties. Sourcing the right…
Clearwater Warns on Agentic Use in Risk Management Without Data Quality Check
The deployment of artificial intelligence agents to risk management processes without adequate attention paid to data quality will expose capital markets participants to undue vulnerabilities. The warning from Clearwater Analytics came after a survey by the company found almost all institutional investors questioned said that data quality was the biggest barrier to trusting AI outputs….
Dasseti Acquisition Provides New Private Markets ‘Chapter’ for Nasdaq
Nasdaq’s acquisition of Dasseti, a due diligence and monitoring platform, extends the exchange and data company’s interests in private markets and highlights the growing importance of the sector to capital markets investors. The deal, which was completed in September, will see the artificial intelligence-powered tools of Dasseti integrated into Nasdaq’s eVestment business, and rolled out across…
Greenwashing Data Shows Shift Towards Transition Industries
Greenwashing is on the rise again and shifting notably towards companies that are critical to net-zero investors, exposing assets to severe risk of regulatory and reputational damage. The latest data shows that the total number of incidents in which companies overstated their sustainability achievements or failed to keep to their pledges surged 28% in the…
Modern Data Management Comes to Private Markets Rescue: Webinar Review
Private assets are firmly established as a major focus of financial institutions’ investment strategies, but many still struggle to apply the same technological rigour to their alternative portfolios as they do their allocations to public assets. This is through no fault of their own, and is almost entirely the result of the shortage of quality…
Governing Unstructured Data in the Age of AI
By John Joseph, Senior Director, North America Revenue, Xceptor. The financial services industry is moving beyond AI that simply generates information towards deploying agents that make decisions in live operational environments. While this can deliver significant gains in efficiency, streamline regulatory compliance, and reduce the risk of human error, it has also increased scrutiny of…
Recorded Webinar: Taming the Private Markets Data Beast: Solving for Valuation, Integration, and Reporting in Alternative Investments
Available On-Demand Institutional activity in private markets has surged as organisations’ traditional investment theses have been upended by global economic volatility, geopolitical instability and fee compression. In their search for better risk-adjusted returns, they have found a rich seam of alpha from private equity and credit, real assets, venture and hedge funds, as well as…
Adapting to an AI-Dominated World: Data Management Summit New York City Review
The 16th Data Management Summit New York City immersed delegates in a deep dive into the implications of artificial intelligence and associated agents as the technologies dominate discussions among data chiefs of the world’s financial institutions. In the opening Data Leaders Panel, The Evolving Data And Ai Operating Model – Synergy, Governance And Accountability, the…