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JPM Digs in the Dirt for Supply-Chain Risk Data
JP Morgan Asset Management will soon be using soil analysis data among other forensic sources to calculate supply-chain risk to its investments. As part of the effort, the investment arm of the New York-based banking giant has reportedly hired a third-party vendor to examining soil samples to discover the sources of cotton used by clothing…
Transcend Includes ESG Criteria in Collateral Analytics
Analytics provider to the collateralised markets Transcend will incorporate ESG criteria into its processes. Clients will be able to add ESG performance metrics into their collateral management and workflows. The New Jersey-based company will include metrics including restriction lists, KPI data as well as ESG scores and ratings.
Asset Managers Are Rising to the ESG Disclosure Challenge
Asset managers are playing a more prominent role in developing the ESG data sourcing and reporting space, even as regulations make it more difficult for them to honour their own disclosure obligations. With responsibility for the careful investment of trillions of dollars of capital, managers are becoming proactive in seeking data from corporates and identifying…
Recorded Webinar: Sourcing and managing ESG disclosure data to ensure compliance
As interest in ESG investing continues to accelerate, asset managers must source and manage increasing volumes of ESG disclosure data. Data volumes are not the only problem, with different types of ESG disclosure data, the need to master the data, and a lack of standards all contributing to the challenges of getting compliance right and…
ADC Looks to Fill Gaps in Banks’ ESG Data Competencies
Data science specialist Amsterdam Data Collective (ADC) has grown by helping companies realise the value of data in achieving specific goals, such as building capital position models for banks and improving customer experiences for retailers. But the Dutch company has now also set its sights on filling ESG knowledge gaps in financial institutions’ risk-management processes. Last…
Biodiversity Data Growth Forecast as Investors Look to Nature
It’s been called the ESG elephant in the room, an environmental risk that’s been all too obvious but largely overlooked in the race to net-zero. But advances in ESG data modelling has sparked a gathering interest in biodiversity risk. RepRisk and QuantCube are trialling new satellite-based solutions to collect data on the impacts of economic…
EDM Council Highlights Challenges to ESG Data Delivery
Data management industry group the EDM Council has outlined proposals it says will make delivering ESG data easier for rating providers and data aggregators (RPDAs). In the New York-based council’s second report into managing ESG data it said that RPDAs were experiencing specific challenges with ESG data that were not present in their other activities….
More Firms Submit Data for Bloomberg Gender Equality Index
A record number of companies offered data on gender equality for a key reference index, data giant Bloomberg said. The New York-based company’s Gender-Equality Index (GEI) now features 418 companies with a total market capitalisation of US$16 trillion. Constituents must file their data according to a GEI Framework, which scores companies on female leadership roles,…
Arabesque Deal Seeks to Bring Sustainability to Property Sector
ABG Real Estate Group has bought a minority stake in data vendor and asset manager Arabesque as part of a strategy to create ESG solutions for the property market. Together the companies hope to introduce ESG measures and benchmarks for the construction and real estate sectors. Building firm Goldbeck has also invested into the partnership….
Diginex-SGS Alliance May Offer Comfort to ESG-Worried Auditors
With nascent regulations stressing the need for ESG disclosures to be included in corporate financial reports, the role of auditors in the process is coming under scrutiny. That was recognised this week with the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) in the US praising a declaration by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) that recognised…