Diginex to Acquire Carbon Accounting Provider Plan-A

Sustainability RegTech and data management provider Diginex Limited is to acquire Berlin-based carbon-accounting and management software developer Plan-A.

The all-share transaction will create an integrated ESG and carbon management solution for enterprises worldwide and comes as the global carbon management software market grows to help firms satisfy their sustainability regulatory reporting obligations.

“This acquisition represents a major leap forward in our mission to make sustainability simple, actionable, and valuable for businesses,” said Diginex chair Miles Pelham.

The combined offering will provide automated data collection, emissions dashboards, and audit-ready reporting for capital markets and other industry participants. Carbon accounting and decarbonisation platforms help companies measure and reduce their environmental impact.

Chartis Ranks Kyckr a Category Leader for 2025, Highlighting Strength in Corporate Structure and UBO Data

Kyckr has again been recognised by Chartis as one of the leading providers of Know Your Customer (KYC) data, reinforcing the company’s role in a market increasingly shaped by real-time, authoritative entity information. The latest Chartis RiskTech Quadrant for KYC Data and Solutions places Kyckr in the Category Leader tier for the second year running, reflecting growing industry demand for accurate company-registry intelligence as Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Business (KYB) and anti-money laundering (AML) obligations expand.

Chartis’ analysis examines 12 providers that supply KYC data to financial services firms, with evaluation criteria centred on data coverage, structure and delivery. Kyckr received top scores for “corporate structure” and “entity relationships” – areas that highlight the strength of its core proposition: live registry data aggregated from more than 300 official sources worldwide. Access to verified corporate data at this level of depth and jurisdictional breadth increasingly underpins due-diligence workflows, where firms are seeking to reduce manual effort and improve confidence in Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) verification.

Providing additional context on the ranking, Phil Mackenzie, Senior Research Principal at Chartis, noted: “Kyckr continues to demonstrate strength in an increasingly data-driven compliance ecosystem. Strong domain expertise and integration capabilities, as well as a focus on delivering real-time entity data at scale, all contributed to its category leader placement in the KYC Data RiskTech Quadrant.”

The recognition follows a year of expansion for Kyckr, including the onboarding of 28 new obliged entities, enhancements to data sourcing across key regions, and deeper integrations with RegTech platforms including Strise and Spektr.

Reflecting on the challenges firms face, CEO Steve Lamb said: “Companies needing to carry out customer due diligence are faced with tightening regulations and a fast-shifting registry landscape. This presents significant challenges in accessing reliable, authoritative data. Being named a category leader by Chartis Research is significant validation of Kyckr’s solution and reflects our continued investment in data quality, jurisdiction expansion and advanced entity-resolution technologies to support clients’ rapidly evolving compliance needs.”

Informatica Adds New Agentic AI Capabilities for AWS

The newly augmented Informatica from Salesforce has introduced new integrations with Amazon Web Services at AWS re:Invent 2025.

These platform updates are designed to enhance clients’ ability to build enterprise artificial intelligence agents using governed data on the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.

“Our collaboration with AWS empowers customers to confidently build intelligent, compliant agents with the best of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Informatica’s enterprise data management expertise,” chief product officer Krish Vitaldevara said.

Informatica also announced the availability of its Cloud Data Integration connector for Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, supporting Apache Iceberg and enabling access to large-scale datasets for machine learning and analytics.

Alts Investment Specialist Marshall Wace Integrates Bloomberg Risk Model

Financial and enterprise data behemoth Bloomberg’s Multi-Asset Class Fundamental Risk Model have been adopted by Marshall Wace.

The liquid alternatives manager with more than US$70 billion in assets, will use the model for quantitative research and systematic investment strategies. The firm chose the risk model to get accurate forecasts and analytics for measuring portfolio risks across asset classes.

The model, called MAC3, is a suite of factor models calculated daily across more than 3,000 factors. It powers risk analytics for Bloomberg’s PORT Enterprise. Risk factor models are used to decompose and forecast risk across multiple dimensions for better portfolio construction.

“Marshall Wace’s adoption of MAC3 underscores the growing demand for high-precision risk models that help institutional investors better understand the factors driving portfolio risk,” said Bloomberg head of portfolio analytics research Jose Menchero.

NeoXam Rolls Out AI-Powered IDP Automation Software for Private Markets

Data management and portfolio software provider NeoXam has launched AI-powered Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) to automate the ingestion, classification, extraction, validation and routing of unstructured financial documents across private markets and other sectors.
This product addresses the growing volume and complexity of private-asset documentation, such as capital calls, distribution notices, and quarterly fund statements.
IDP is a type of software that combines multiple technologies like optical character recognition (OCR), artificial intelligence and machine learning to process, understand and extract data from documents, transforming unstructured data into structured data for use in business systems.
IDP classifies each document, extracts required data fields and maps them to standardised schemas relevant to private-market data models.
The technology uses large language model-assisted parsing to enhance the recognition of domain-specific terms and layouts, while AI-based validations flag anomalies for review.
Neoxam said the solution is built for asset managers and servicers facing document sprawl, which causes fragmentation, slows onboarding and creates audit gaps.

Canoe, Prime Buchholz Extend Data Tie-up on Private Markets

Canoe Intelligence, which provides AI-driven software for alternative investment intelligence, and Prime Buchholz, a leading investment adviser and outsourced chief investment officer provider (OCIO), announced an expansion of their strategic partnership into a private markets intelligence solution.
Both firms’ capabilities will be connected across document collection, data validation and analytics to eliminate manual handoffs that can slow alternative investment workflows. The unified offering allows investment, research, and data teams to rapidly track performance metrics, analyse cash flows and identify exposures across alternative investments.
The enhanced solution builds on Prime Buchholz’s multi-year use of Canoe’s platform to automate the collection and AI-driven extraction of data from source documents for its 250 institutional clients.
Dan Ricci, head of information systems at Prime Buchholz, said the integration reduces the time to get portfolio company data from an industry standard of two or more weeks to “a couple days”.

SimCorp’s Axioma Risk to Stay on Innocap’s DMAP

Innocap has said it will continue using SimCorp’s Axioma Risk for risk analysis on its dedicated managed account platform (DMAP).
The agreement ensures that Innocap will maintain its use of SimCorp’s risk solution to serve its institutional allocator clients. The Axioma Risk solution provides risk monitoring, comprehensive stress testing, scenario analysis to assess portfolio resilience, and enhanced transparency into direct holdings and underlying exposures.
Andrew Lapkin, chief operating officer at Innocap, said the agreement reflects the value of the Axioma analytics suite, citing its “scalability, reliability and multi-asset class capabilities”.
Innocap’s platform uses Axioma Risk as its core analytics engine, processing risk assessments for hundreds of thousands of instruments monthly.
Unlike a traditional commingled vehicle, a DMA is an independent, customisable fund created for a single institutional allocator who owns and controls the segregated portfolio assets.

Bloomberg Unveils Commodity Indices

Bloomberg Index Services Limited (BISL), the company’s market benchmarks business, has launched two new commodity indices.
The Bloomberg Commodity Carbon Tilted, Transition Metals, & Gold Index (BCOMCTG) and the Bloomberg Commodity Global Oil & Gas Liquidity-Weighted Index (GCOMOGL) expand the firm’s commodity offerings.
These new thematic basket indices are forward-looking benchmarks aligned with themes like energy transition and infrastructure investment.
“These new indices are designed to track that evolution and the way commodities demand is being reshaped as a result,” said Jigna Gibb, head of commodities and crypto index products at Bloomberg.
The BCOMCTG Index underpins Fideuram’s recently launched D-X Diversified Commodities and Strategic Metals UCITS ETF. The GCOMOGL Index uses a liquidity-weighted methodology to track the global oil and gas sector.

UK’s FRC Issues Standard for Sustainability Data Assurance

The UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has issued International Standard on Sustainability Assurance (UK) 5000 to provide a consistent, internationally aligned assurance standard for voluntary use in sustainability assurance engagements.
The UK Standard is intended for voluntary use by UK assurance providers and applies to both limited and reasonable assurance. Sustainability assurance assesses the credibility of non-financial reporting, such as ESG data.
ISSA (UK) 5000 is a UK version of the global benchmark standard for sustainability assurance developed by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB).
Mark Babington, executive director of regulatory standards at the FRC, said: “The release of ISSA (UK) 5000 marks a significant step in establishing a consistent framework for sustainability assurance in the UK.”

Singapore Regulator Frames AI Risk Reduction Guidelines

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the city-state’s financial regulator, has issued a consultation paper proposing guidelines on artificial intelligence risk management for financial institutions.

The proposals apply to all financial institutions and set out expectations on oversight of AI risk management, systems, policies, procedures, life cycle controls and capabilities. These guidelines follow MAS’ supervisory review of banks’ AI use in 2024 and discussions with institutions.

Ho Hern Shin, Deputy Managing Director, said: “The proposed Guidelines on AI Risk Management provide financial institutions with clear supervisory expectations to support them in leveraging AI in their operations.”