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Recorded Webinar: Approaches to ESG data for the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)

The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) outlines extensive rules designed to ensure transparency across sustainable financial markets. It also demands huge volumes of non-financial ESG data to be sourced, managed and governed, some of which is difficult to find, and much of which is unstructured and of variable quality. The data challenge is exacerbated...

Recorded Webinar: Best Practices for Building High-Performance Data Infrastructures

The requirement for high-performance data systems to support trading analytics for hedge funds, high-frequency trading firms and electronic liquidity providers is well established. But the explosion in Big Data over the past several years has expanded the scope of inputs being used by these firms. At the same time, cloud technologies have added complexity to...

Recorded Webinar: Managing data governance for ESG

Volumes of ESG data continue to rise, standards and metrics are emerging, and financial institutions must manoeuvre through the maze to source, manage and make best use of ESG data to meet increasing client demand for sustainable investment. They must also adhere to emerging regulations, avoid greenwashing, and integrate ESG data – both structured and...

Recorded Webinar: Data standards and global identifiers update

Data standards and global identifiers are the international language of capital markets – but how widely have they been adopted, how useful are they in practice, and can they stand the test of sustaining stable markets? This webinar will review data standards and global identifiers available in capital markets, discuss their adoption, and consider best...

Recorded Webinar: Leveraging NLP for regulatory compliance

As regulatory compliance becomes more complex, requires larger volumes of data – both structured and unstructured, and comes under greater scrutiny by regulators, financial institutions are looking for RegTech solutions that can help them increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the accuracy of regulatory data. One such solution is natural language processing (NLP), which can...

Recorded Webinar: Embracing cloud in your firm’s regulatory response

Regulatory compliance is a key function for financial institutions. It is also a huge burden in terms of time, data management, systems resources, manual intervention, and reporting. As financial firms progress digital transformation programmes, is it time to move regulatory reporting to the cloud with a view to improved efficiency, reduced costs and better business...

Recorded Webinar: Enabling data democratisation with trusted and well governed data

Data democratisation enables users across an organisation to access and analyse data in a digital format. Its benefits are many and include allowing employees to make informed business decisions without recourse to IT, gaining a better understanding of customers, improving operational efficiency, and achieving a greater return on investment in data. It is also key...

Recorded Webinar: Deploying market infrastructure managed services

Traditionally, trading organisations have procured and managed hardware themselves or through a third-party to support data services in a hosted environment – but as large firms look for efficiencies and smaller firms seek external help so they can focus on their core business, a shift in infrastructure ownership is needed. This can be achieved by...

Recorded Webinar: The future of the desktop – optimising the user experience

Trader desktop solutions have advanced rapidly over the past few years, driven by new technology approaches, rising volumes and different types of data, interoperability, demand for ease of use, and the coronavirus pandemic that called for a desktop review as working from home became mainstream and later transitioned to hybrid working. Next generation desktops will...

Recorded Webinar: Adding value and improving efficiencies in sanctions screening

Sanctions have been headline news this year. They are growing in number, sanctions lists are changing on a daily basis, and there can be conflict between sanctions issued by different jurisdictions – the whole calling for financial institutions to optimise sanctions screening to reduce risk and avoid potentially punitive penalties of non-compliance. This webinar will...