Standard & Poor’s has introduced Compustat Xpressfeed Loader Library, which enhances users’ ability to query, view and manipulate Compustat’s fundamental data within the basic Xpressfeed feed. The Library is available when using the Compustat Xpressfeed Loader platform and is delivered as a set of 35 database-stored procedures, functions and views. The resources in the Library allow users to perform such queries as currency conversions and data adjustments.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
The critical importance of data to the private equity and alternatives markets sector is starkly underlined by an observation from Anush Newman, chief executive and co-founder of JMAN Group. “In the past 18 months, I know of at least 20 acquisition deals that have fallen through because the target companies didn’t have enough data to...
Now in its 9th year, the RegTech Summit in New York will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the North American capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
Risk and regulatory imperatives are demanding access to the latest portfolio information, placing new pressures on the pricing and valuation function. And the front office increasingly wants up-to-date valuations of hard-to-price securities. These developments are driving a push toward on-demand evaluated pricing capabilities, with pricing teams seeking to provide access to valuations at higher frequency...