ISS ESG is to adjust the methodology and data underlying its Environmental & Social Disclosure QualityScore product. The environmental and social risk assessment tool will undergo changes by the third quarter in response to changed disclosure standards. The Maryland-based sustainable investment arm of Institutional Shareholder Services said more than 150 factors underlying the score would be reviewed, with 60 new additions and 50 retired.
Regulatory change is constant, complex and challenging, calling on financial institutions to attend to details of change whether relatively minor or large scale. Recent regulatory changes include MiFID II post-trade transparency requirements, including ESMA’s increase in data continuity checks that brokers must prepare for, and trading venues must make, when reporting instrument reference and quantitative...
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...
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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...