EPFR, a subsidiary of Informa Financial Intelligence and worldwide industry leader in providing fund flows and allocation data to financial institutions, has launched the EPFR Fixed Income Flows and Holdings dataset providing exclusive monthly, fund-level securities data. The new dataset helps clients strengthen their understanding of ownership and demand for over 50,000 fixed income securities.   The EPFR Fixed Income Flows and Holdings dataset provides insight into bond ownership across multiple fund groups and gives clients a wide range of tools to filter the data. These include fund geo-focus, sector focus, trading currency and maturity date. Clients can also run

Gridline’s new alternative asset marketplace is aiming to provide greater opportunity for individual investors and wealth managers to invest in top-tier alternative assets and fund managers. Just as Vanguard introduced index-based investing to public markets in the 1970s, Gridline is introducing index-based investing to private markets, allowing non-institutional investors the most efficient way to gain diversified exposure to historically exclusive and prohibitively expensive private market opportunities. Gridline’s digital wealth platform handles the traditionally cumbersome back-office management of private market investing, from treasury management to tax reporting and transparent performance monitoring, allowing fees to remain low, keeping more money in the

Options Technology, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has bene named as one of the founding members of the newly launched “Sustainable Trading”, a non-profit membership network to drive ESG change across financial markets. The founding members of Sustainable Trading come from a range of companies across the financial sector, including; asset management, banking and brokerage, market making, exchanges, technology, and service providers.  The membership network is dedicated to transforming environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices within the financial markets trading industry. It aims to bring firms together to devise practical solutions to industry-specific ESG

European credit specialist AlbaCore Capital Group (AlbaCore) has launched a new solution focusing on Carbon Conscious Investing (CCI), the first European private market solution to provide line-by-line greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting for a corporate credit portfolio. The model and methodology, developed in-house by AlbaCore, reflects the portfolio’s GHG footprint for all scenarios including when public data is not available. The GHG data is integrated into AlbaCore’s internal risk system that is monitored on an ongoing basis to continue to refine the CCI footprint analysis as data quality improves and regulatory pressure encourages more companies to report. The CCI solution will

The new Sustainable Trading membership network is dedicated to transforming environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices within the financial markets trading industry. Led by industry veteran, Duncan Higgins, the network will bring firms together to devise practical solutions to industry specific ESG issues and develop a mechanism for self-assessment and benchmarking.   Sustainable Trading members will consider the environmental impact of how the financial trading industry builds, maintains, and operates trading infrastructure along with a focus on areas such as diversity, equity and inclusion, employee wellbeing, engagement with communities and a stakeholder-oriented approach to enterprise governance.   Membership of Sustainable

SEBA Bank, a fully integrated, FINMA licensed digital assets banking platform, has secured a Financial Services Permission (FSP) from Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority (“FSRA”) effective as of 7 February 2022. Following receipt of this FSP, SEBA Bank has opened an office in Abu Dhabi ADGM to strengthen support for its regional partners in the provision of regulated digital asset services. The FSP authorises SEBA Bank to conduct regulated activities in the ADGM, including advising on investments or credit, arranging credit and custody, and arranging deals in investments; pursuant to the Financial Services and Markets Regulations

The Digital Pound Foundation (DPF) has formed a new strategic partnership with CryptoUK as part of its plans to foster a stronger ecosystem for new forms of digital money in the UK. Incorporated in June 2021 and formally launched in October 2021, the DPF is an independent, non-profit organisation which works with a variety of stakeholders and participants towards the implementation of a well-designed digital Pound. As policy developments surrounding digital currencies are accelerating, the DPF is building partnerships with a number of key organisations to help strengthen the dialogue with policymakers and collaborate on developing best practices.    Launched

Ocorian, a provider of private client, fund, corporate, capital markets, and regulatory and compliance services, has developed and launched Optics, a reporting and interactive dashboard tool to improve the efficiency of capital markets transactions globally. Capital markets transactions are traditionally very complex and include many different parties, with access to transactional data often very restricted. With Ocorian Optics, clients can now break down transactions and loans per user and present the data in visual, completely customisable reports and dashboards. This gives full oversight of the transaction and the user’s individuals commitments, assets, loan and debt types in a user-friendly form.