Greenwashing is on the rise within financial institutions, with a quarter of all ESG risk incidents linked to the scourge, up from a fifth last year, according to a new report.
Sustainability science provider RepRisk found 148 cases of greenwashing in compiling its second annual report, which also found that 70 per cent of incidents were attributable to banks and most of those with regard to human rights breaches.
Who owns AI governance in a capital markets firm – and is the Data Office structured to bear that weight? These questions sit at the heart of A-Team Research’s latest findings, presented here for the first time: the combined results of two landmark surveys examining the role of the Data Office in AI governance and...
ESG ratings still play an important part in investors’ due diligence processes, but they are no longer among the leading sources of information guiding their decisions, a recent survey has concluded. Increased scrutiny of ratings agencies by regulators and government bodies, as well as improved means of gathering ESG data, mainly through the use of...
Now in its 10th year, the RegTech Summit in New York will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the North American capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
As the 3 January 2018 compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) approaches, A-Team Group has pulled together everything you need to know about the regulation in a precise and concise handbook. The MiFID II Handbook, commissioned by Thomson Reuters, provides a guide to aspects of the regulation that will have...