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NEWSLETTER | 17 Mar 2021

Financial services firms must consider operational resilience when outsourcing, says Capco

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

As financial firms become increasingly reliant upon third parties to deliver key business services, the potential risks these partnerships place upon a firm’s operation resilience are of greater concern to regulators.

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has outlined a three-point plan to further harmonise derivatives trade reporting requirements and deliver against the objectives that were originally established by the Group of 20 (G20) at its historic 2009 summit in Pittsburgh.

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has published its response to the European Commission's consultation on the establishment of a European Single Access Point (ESAP) for financial and non-financial information publicly disclosed by companies.

Digital asset AUM hits record USD5.8bn

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

Digital asset investment products closed on Friday with a record of USD5.8 billion of assets under management following positive price action and inflows last week of USD242 million.

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

Linedata, a global provider of asset management technology, data and services, has become the first technology vendor to integrate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data into asset managers’ workflows through collaboration with independent provider Arabesque S-Ray.

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

Scope Group, a European leading provider of independent credit ratings, ESG and fund analysis, has acquired Euler Hermes Rating as of 1 January 2021.

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

Companies will face rising pressure to improve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) behaviours as investors deploy new tools to influence them, according to NN Investment Partners (NN IP) in its latest Responsible Investing Report.

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

The majority (75 per cent) of European institutional investors and wealth managers expect foreign investment into Chinese equities to increase in Q1 2021, compared to Q4 of 2020, while one fifth expect it to remain the same.

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

PureStream Trading Technologies Inc has selected Nasdaq to power the new PureStream alternative trading system (ATS) via the Nasdaq Execution Platform.

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

TISA, a cross-industry financial services membership body, has launched the first Good Practice Guide intended to help firms understand their ESG reporting obligations under Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations (SFDR).

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

Julius Baer International has signed up to the Diversity Project, a cross-company initiative championing a more inclusive culture within the savings and investment profession.

Evenlode joins PCAF

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

Evenlode Investment has joined the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) to support the identification and understanding of the climate change impact across its range of investment portfolios.

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

Aberdeen company North Star Renewables has been awarded contracts worth an estimated GBP270 million to deliver three state-of-the-art service operation vessels (SOVs) to be used on what will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the 3.6GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the North Sea.

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

Global fintech Gresham Technologies has appointed Harvey Colborne to lead business development and sales across the UK and Ireland.

Wed | 17 Mar 2021, 12:22

Maples and Calder (Ireland) LLP, the Maples Group's law firm, has promoted six of its lawyers bringing the total number of senior appointments in the last six months to eight.