SEI has acquired Novus Partners (Novus), a global portfolio intelligence platform company, designed to expand SEI’s capabilities for both the institutional investor and investment management markets.

DLA Piper has launched a global, dedicated end-to-end Investment Management and Funds practice offering to support to the entire investment management and investment funds value chain.

Multrees Investor Services (Multrees), a provider of outsourced platform, investment administration and custody services, has been appointed by Brompton Asset Management to provide custody and administration for Brompton’s private clients and platform technology across the business.

Nasdaq is to collect and make its private fund manager diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) data available for investors free of charge via the Nasdaq eVestment platform in an effort to improve transparency and disclosure standardisation across the industry. The data will be available starting on 16 February, 2022.

CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, and Margin Tonic, a service provider specialising in the collateral and post-trade domains, have partnered to launch a global Average Aggregated Notional Amount (AANA) calculation service for the latter phases of the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR).

Quant technology provider SigTech has launched a new Data Showroom, which revolutionises the way data owners sell their data to fund managers and asset owners, reducing the sales cycle from months to weeks.

Qontigo, a provider of risk, analytics and index solutions, has introduced a Carbon Emission Price factor within the Axioma Worldwide Macroeconomic Projection Equity Factor Risk Model (Macro Projection Model). 

Fundipedia has integrated its data management platform into Deloitte Luxembourg’s portfolio to complement its existing range of advisory, consulting and integration services. 

Fund Channel, the B2B fund distribution platform owned by Amundi, has reached an agreement with 3D (Distributor Due Diligence Ltd) the leading due diligence platform.

CUSIP Global Services (CGS) has added Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data attributes for corporate and municipal bonds in its data feed and desktop products.