Technology – Page 4
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Dutch pension scheme PME suffers huge data breach
Personal data of 95,000 members were leaked after a breach at a software supplier
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DWP pushes back pensions dashboards timeline due to ‘complex build’
‘More time is needed to deliver this complex build,’ says Laura Trott, parliamentary under secretary of state for pensions
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Fear and loathing in European banks
Any CEO would recognise there is a problem when investors do not want to put their money to work with you. That is the situation that European banks find themselves in. The MSCI Europe bank index has considerably underperformed its MSCI Europe parent over the last 10 years.
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Ahead of the curve: The missing elements in the digital currencies debate
The recent contraction of the cryptocurrency markets poses questions about the viability of digital currency as an asset class for institutional investors. However, these developments have not undermined the efforts of central banks to pursue their own digital currency initiatives.
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Difficult for pensions industry to prepare for pensions dashboards, says Isio
For pensions administrators, the decision on which ISP to connect with constitutes the beginning of a long-term partnership and significant investment
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Norway’s Haugesund pension fund fends off ‘terrifying’ cyber attack
Municipal pension fund’s CEO says incident shows value of good security routines
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PME and PMT invest another €150m in venture capital investor
The two Dutch pension schemes also invested €75m each in Innovation Industries’ previous tech-focused fund
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Swiss companies lack transparency on artificial intelligence, says Ethos
Companies in Switzerland are increasingly concerned about cyber security attacks, stepping up efforts to design appropriate strategies to counteract such threats
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Europe needs €302bn annual infrastructure investments to reach net zero, study finds
A 41% increase in money deployed for infrastructure is necessary for the green energy transition in the first half of this decade
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Shift to unit-link pensions threat to Swedish tech start-up success, says AMF
AMF’s CIO responds to McKinsey study warning of the risks associated with occupational pension capital being increasingly driven out of traditional insurance
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Swiss supervisory authority warns of risks related to decentralised finance
For financial institutions the risks linked to the use of decentralised finance applications are primarily operational, legal and reputational
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Special Report
ESG: Will Scope 3 lead to a tech exodus in public markets?
Could the roll out of Scope 3 reporting bring ESG funds’ love affair with tech to an abrupt end?
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Germany set to launch pension dashboard at year-end
The German pension tracking system with its dashboard will be embedded in the broader ETS project
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Transparency: getting it taped
It’s much harder for European ETF investors to get detailed information on liquidity, volumes and best execution than it is for their US counterparts. That’s because this data isn’t aggregated into a consolidated tape as it is on the other side of the Atlantic.
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Special Report
RFQ platforms and the institutional ETF trading revolution
What do ETFs, RFQ and ESG all have in common? Aside from being some of the most popular acronyms in the history of financial services, the three-letter abbreviations for exchange-traded funds (ETF), electronic request-for-quote (RFQ) trading, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) driven investing, have all come together at the centre of a revolution in asset management.
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Crypto ETFs: exploring the keys to mass adoption
The ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) made history last October as one of the strongest ever ETF launches, amassing more than $1bn (€1bn) in assets in just two days.
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EU Commission could step in to co-finance rollout of European tracking pension platform
The Commission is already funding the pilot stage of the ETS project with €1.7m, out of total costs of €2.1m
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We need better climate models to manage global warming impacts
Travelling back to the UK from Sri Lanka in July, I experienced a 10-degree temperature rise with the UK hitting over 40°C. While some people may argue that such extreme temperatures in the UK could just be a statistical anomaly, climate scientists such as Tim Palmer, Royal Society research professor in climate physics at Oxford University, who I spoke to at length on the subject, have no doubt that global mean temperatures are rising as a result of greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activities.
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Technology is sole trustees’ biggest challenge, says Hymans Robertson
Changing post-pandemic styles of working combined with a need for agile decision making, has created an increased demand for real-time technology solutions
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APG choice for Danish IT meets mixed response
Consultants see APG decision to team with Festina as bold but risky