The UK’s financial overseer has urged firms to review their use of data to improve their diversity and inclusion performance. Sheldon Mills, the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) executive director for consumers and competition said firms are focusing too closely on gender and diversity, rather than socio-economic data. The call follows the FCA’s announcement that it would form a code of conduct for ESG ratings firms.
Date: 11 June 2024 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes ESG data plays a key role in research, fund product development, fund selection, asset selection, performance tracking, and client and regulatory reporting, yet it is not always easy to source and manage in a complete, transparent and timely manner....
Screening is an effective means of ensuring financial products comprise the companies that suit a fund’s mandate. For ESG it’s been a potent tool for eliminating fossil fuel producers, tobacco companies, arms manufacturers and the gamut of businesses that are anathema to investment products built on the philosophy of doing good for humanity and the...
Now in its 8th year, the RegTech Summit in London will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the European capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
The time for talking is over. The time for action is now. A bit melodramatic, perhaps, but given last month’s official launch of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) standard, practitioners are rolling up their sleeves and getting on with figuring out how to incorporate the new identifier into their customer and entity data infrastructures....