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Standard Chartered launches Sustainable Account
09 November 2021 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Sustainable Account solution offers clients flexibility, where they can retain access to their cash for day-to-day liquidity requirements as well as use surplus cash to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

AIMA: talent management in the hedge fund industry
05 November 2021 UK
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

90 per cent of hedge funds are ‘somewhat’ or ‘very’ concerned about talent retention in the near-term, according to new research published by the Alternative Investment Management Association

COP26 springboards industry ESG initiatives in to action
04 November 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The non-profit accounting organisation International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation is to establish an International Sustainability Standards Board to develop comprehensive global baseline sustainability reporting standards under robust gov

Intertrust launches new ESG data tool
03 November 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The solution allows for the outsourcing of back-office activities like data gathering and analytics, and will evolve in line with regulatory and market demands

CUSIP enhances reference data feeds
28 October 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

CUSIP Global Services has enhanced its reference data feeds and desktop products by adding ESG data attributes for corporate and municipal bonds

European Commission issues banking legislative package, finalising Basel III implementation in EU
27 October 2021 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

Review of the Capital Requirements Regulation and Capital Requirements Directive aims to make banks more resilient to economic shocks, while facilitating transition to carbon neutrality and supporting recovery from the pandemic

BMS selects Apex for carbon reporting service
25 October 2021 UK
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

Global reinsurance broker BMS has selected Apex Group to administer the latter’s Carbon Footprint Assessment and Reporting service

FSB installs Andrew Bailey as SRC chair
19 October 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

Bank of England governor becomes chair of the Financial Stability Board's supervisory and regulatory cooperation standing committee, with Saudi central bank governor and FDIC chair also becoming committee heads

AuM at world’s largest asset managers reach new record
18th October 2021 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Assets under management at the world’s 500 largest asset managers have reached a new record of US$119.5 trillion, according to new research from the Thinking Ahead Institute

European private market ESG assets will “skyrocket” to €1.2 trillion by 2025, predicts PwC
12 October 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The statistic, which appears in PwC’s report entitled EU Private Markets: ESG Reboot, reflects the continuing change that ESG is creating for the European private market landscape

London Stock Exchange Group partners with FINBOURNE to power digital data programme
11 October 2021 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

FINBOURNE’s investment data platform LUSID, will provide a scalable and virtual real-time data repository, consolidating multi-asset class data across the businesses

Brace for further volatility in fund flows for UK equities, warn Calastone
08 October 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

“We should brace for further volatility in fund flows for UK equities”, warns Edward Glyn, head of global markets at Calastone, when discussing the UK equities market which suffered heavy selling in September