Arabesque has rebranded its core S-Ray ESG data product to ESG Book, the name that had been given to its publicly available data resources. The German data provider and asset manager said the move was part of a scaling of its sustainability business. ESG Book was launched late last year with the backing of financial institutions including HSBC, Deutsche Bank and The International Finance Corporation (IFC).
The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) outlines extensive rules designed to ensure transparency across sustainable financial markets. It also demands huge volumes of non-financial ESG data to be sourced, managed and governed, some of which is difficult to find, and much of which is unstructured and of variable quality. The data challenge is exacerbated...
Integrating ESG data into traditional data management systems may be akin to fitting the proverbial square peg into a round hole, but it’s a challenge that financial institutions are having to confront every day. There are established workarounds, but they rely on a confluence of expertise in ESG and regular financial data. And there’s the...
Now in its 12th year, the Data Management Summit (DMS) in New York brings together the North American, capital markets enterprise data management community, to explore the evolution of data strategy and how to leverage data to drive compliance and business insight.
The ESG landscape is changing faster than anyone could have imagined even five years ago. With tens of trillions of dollars expected to have been committed to sustainable assets by the end of the decade, it’s never been more important for financial institutions of all sizes to stay abreast of changes in the ESG data...