ESG
Industry seeks to avoid future clashes over data costs
The IMD Wrap: Max wonders when and why buying data became a blood sport.
US banks seek to open vendors’ black box on green data
Inaugural Fed climate scenario analysis flags lack of transparency around third-party models.
All eyes turn to North America as T+1 arrives
As T+1 settlement becomes a reality in North America, long-lingering questions will get their answers.
Bloomberg updates risk analytics platform to cope with FRTB regional shifts
The data giant is also rolling out updates for climate risk and asset liability management on its platform.
Hot topic: SEC climate disclosure rule divides industry
Proposal likely to flounder on First Amendment concerns, lawyers believe.
Price gouging? New study finds market data providers consistently inconsistent in pricing, discounts
As the industry awaits the FCA’s findings from its Wholesale Market Data Study, end-users pin their hopes on the prospect of relief. But a new study from Substantive Research details the enormous pricing disparities that must be tackled.
Quant shop preps NLP-powered index for physical climate risk
Sharp rise in extreme weather events prompts PGIM Quant to aim for better climate-risk pricing
This Week: Nasdaq; Symphony/Google; Interop.io and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
This Week: SimCorp/Deutsche Boerse, Moody's, SS&C, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
BST Awards 2023: Best ESG data provider to the buy side—FactSet
Product: FactSet
BNY Mellon streamlines the hunt for liquidity with LiquidityDirect updates
The bank spent the last three years evolving and expanding LiquidityDirect to include additional asset classes, and will white label the platform to customers.
Ignoring ESG data simply doesn’t make business sense
There’s a brewing controversy about “woke” ESG investments. But politics aside, ESG as a dataset brings more transparency to investment decisions.
The power of data and analytics in driving sustainability initiatives
The challenges with current data approaches are data availability, reliability and transparency. It is, therefore, crucial to use data platforms and data mesh to enhance the process of obtaining accurate information, both for sustainability reporting and…
Social distancing: Putting a $ value on the ‘S’ in ESG
The ‘social’ pillar of ESG has been much overlooked and underserved in terms of reporting and accurate and available data. That’s changing.
Ex-LSEG execs partner to offer data strategy consulting
Dunlap and White have held senior roles on the buy side, sell side, and at vendors and exchanges, over careers spanning more than 30 years each.
People Moves: Northern Trust, Finbourne, HKEx, Broadridge, and more
A look at the past month’s people moves within the tech and data space, including Benze Lam (pictured), who becomes Northern Trust’s Hong Kong head.
Deutsche Börse ‘cannot afford’ to miss out on generative AI; SimCorp deal on schedule
The exchange group wants to be at the forefront of the emerging technology field and has extended its partnership with Google into AI.
As ESG investing faces headwinds, MSCI’s CEO says ESG ‘most popular’ topic for clients
For future analytics enhancements, the vendor will also lean into large language models and generative AI.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Symphony’s Brad Levy
Symphony’s CEO Brad Levy joins to discuss the future direction for the company and ESG data and analytics.
SFDR: A data project that’s becoming ‘a real headache’
SFDR mandates that asset managers must start publishing ESG data in a few weeks, but sourcing the new metrics has proved challenging, and a host of questions remain.
Market data consumers buy the same products at massively different price points
A new study finds that asset managers are paying several times more than their peers for the same services—but why? And can it be fixed? Does it need to be?