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Moody’s-MSCI Partnership Seen Impacting ESG Ratings Sector
Moody’s and MSCI have bolstered their ESG offerings with a tie-up that will see them share some of each other’s sustainability capabilities in a move that’s been predicted to concentrate global ESG ratings provision. As part of the arrangement, ratings provider Moody’s will gain access to MSCI’s data and models, which will eventually replace its…
S&P Global Market Intelligence Updates Capital IQ Pro with Fixed Income Data and GenAI Summarisation
S&P Global Market Intelligence continues to update its Capital IQ Pro data and analytics platform with the addition of more than 19.4 million fixed income securities with full reference data, pricing and analytics. The company has also added GenAI-powered earnings transcript summarisation capabilities and enhanced private markets and segment data. The fixed income data includes…
Practicalities of Implementing GenAI in Capital Markets
Following the opening keynote of A-Team Group’s AI in Capital Markets Summit (AICMS), a panel of expert speakers focused on the practicalities of implementing GenAI. The panel agreed that industry hype is waning and there is enthusiasm for GenAI with firms beginning to develop use cases, although one speaker noted: “People understand the risks and…
AI in Capital Markets Summit Tracks Evolution of GenAI and Value Creation
Generative AI (GenAI) took the world by storm in November 2022 when OpenAI introduced ChatGPT. It has since become a talking point across capital markets as financial institutions review its potential to deliver value, consider the challenges it raises, and question whether they have the data foundation in place to deliver meaningful, unbiased and ethical…
Mastering Data Compliance: Strategies to Overcome the Data Mountain
By Adam Quirke, Business Development Lead, Financial Services, InterSystems UK & Ireland. With the financial sector’s regulation landscape continuously evolving, compliance officers at financial institutions play a crucial role in maintaining integrity and trust. They maintain compliance despite a growing burden of responsibilities and the increasingly acute problem of legacy technology, which lacks agility, requires…
Datactics Enhances Augmented Data Quality Solution with Magic Wand and Rule Wizard
Datactics has enhanced the Augmented Data Quality Solution (ADQ) it brought to market in November 2023 with the addition of an AI magic wand, Snowflake connectivity and an SQL rule wizard in ADQ v1.4. The company is also working towards the release of ADQ v1.5 that will include generative AI (GenAI) rules and predictive remediation…
Finbourne Raises £55m to Fund Overseas Expansion
Finbourne Technology has received a £55 million capital injection to fund the international expansion of the investment data management solutions provider’s AI-enabled data and tools service. The London-based company raised the money in a Series B funding round led by venture capital firm Highland Europe and AXA Venture Partners (AVP). It follows a £15m cash…
Global Indices Launch Marks SIX’s Latest Expansion of ETF Business
SIX, the data aggregator and operator of Swiss and Spanish stock exchanges, has expanded its indexing business with the creation of two families of global equities indices that can be used by the company’s retail, private banking and asset management clients. The SIX World Indices provide a broad view of global markets through a diversified and…
Data Mesh and The People Problem
Since their conceptualisation five years ago, data meshes have yet to achieve the outright transformation of data management that many had forecast. That is not the fault of the concept or its philosophical underpinnings, but an issue of human nature, argues one of the technology’s proponents. Data Virtuality’s Tammie Coles believes that the key ingredient…
FINBOURNE Technology Expands Integration with Taskize to Enhance Post-Trade Operational Workflows
FINBOURNE Technology, the investment data management solutions provider, has expanded its integration with Taskize, the post-trade operational workflow specialists, to improve the management of complex IBOR (Investment Book of Record) and ABOR (Accounting Book of Record) post-trade exceptions. For FINBOURNE clients, the integration with Taskize aims to reduce resolution times, lower human error, and boost…