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Webinar Review: How to Develop a Reporting Framework for ESG Disclosure Regulation
Financial institutions have been handed a golden opportunity to grow their business and add value for their customers from an unlikely source – ESG regulators. While banks and investors are under pressure to comply with a slew of new sustainability rules, the process is providing them with a treasure trove of data that can be…
Toronto-Based TMX Datalinx Opens ESG Data Hub
TMX Datalinx, Toronto-based TMX Group’s information services division, has opened an ESG data hub designed to support global clients’ integrating ESG in investment decision-making processes. As well as providing TMX Datalinx real-time and historical data, the TMX ESG Data Hub provides data from external sources including OWL, a fintech transforming how ESG data is gathered,…
Financial Services’ ESG Insights Locked in “Dark Data”: Could AI Help to Surface Them?
Dr John Bates, AI technologist and CEO of SER, explores AI’s latest potential in extracting and making sense of this wealth of ESG intelligence. In 2023, 120bn terabytes of content will be created, captured and consumed by businesses – growing by half as much again by 2025. Locked somewhere within all of that potential business…
Author of Greenwashing Survey Says Data is Needed to Stem the Scourge
A surge in greenwashing in the past year revealed by a new survey has highlighted the need for better data and metrics to help investors nurture the companies and project that will bring about net-zero and other sustainability goals, the report’s author has said. This year’s edition of ESG data science provider RepRisk’s annual greenwashing…
Recorded Webinar: How to develop a reporting framework for ESG disclosure regulation
ESG reporting is a challenge and additional burden for many financial institutions as regulations continue to evolve, ESG data management is complex, and global standards remain elusive. Helpful solutions include reporting frameworks that support the collection, understanding, and management of ESG data for disclosure. This webinar will provide practical guidance on how to build a…
Survey Finds Substantial Surge in Greenwashing
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…
ESG Pillar 3 Disclosure Tool Launched by ISS ESG
ISS ESG’s European bank clients can now take advantage of a tool designed to help them comply with a key sustainability regulation. The company’s ESG Pillar 3 ESG Solution provides templates and disclosure facilities to meet the European Banking Authority’s sustainability reporting standards. Clients can access the service through is own DataDesk as well as…
EthicsAnswer Creates ESG-Trained AI to Ease Disclosure Pain
A SaaS platform is using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to significantly reduce the burden of sustainability disclosure requests from investors and other stakeholders faced by chief sustainability officers (CSOs). Welsh company EthicsAnswer says its GenAI product will substantially reduce the time it takes for CSOs to complete ESG surveys and will improve accuracy. The tool is backed by a large-language model (LLM) that is trained on more than 46,000 publicly…
Financial Institutions Turn to AI and Cloud to Solve Data Challenges
Financial institutions are undergoing digital transformations that are seeing them harness the full potential of the huge volumes of data they generate. Importantly, to do that they are deploying the technologies that are already defining our era – artificial intelligence (AI) and the cloud. From streamlining back-office processes to informing front-office decision making, and from…
SAP Fioneer Launches Fist ESG Tool for FIs
SAP’s FinTech arm SAP Fioneer has unveiled its first ESG assessment tool for investment portfolios. The Fioneer ESG KPI Engine is available for on-prem or cloud-based platforms and enables banks and insurers to manage portfolios according to particular KPIs.