The Economist Intelligence Unit has launched its own ESG Rating Service for investors and consumers, offering scores on 150 countries based on 90 sustainability indicators. The service gives country-level historic rankings back to 2015 and lays out quarterly analyses of key trends. The London-based information provider said the comparability of the ratings would help clients in their decision-making processes.
ESG investing, regulation and compliance are central concerns for financial institutions, although not all jurisdictions are equal. In the US, ESG has become a partisan issue making SEC regulation uncertain; the EU is on good form and has already implemented multiple regulations; and Asia Pacific is advancing as regulators and exchanges deploy ESG rules. Greenwashing...
Touted as the next frontier of artificial intelligence, agentic AI hogged the data management headlines in 2025. Seemingly ushering the realisation of the no-more-drudge-work predictions that heralded the arrival of general AI years back, agentic AI has certainly become the target of institutional investment and developer innovation in the past 12 months. According to a...
Now in its 8th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
The industry breathed a sigh of relief when the deadline for reporting under the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) was pushed back to July 1, 2014. But what’s starting to look like perhaps the most significant regulation of the next 12 months may start to impact our marketplace sooner than we think, especially...