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Growing, Not Wavering: Data Suggests ESG is Defying its Critics
A recent survey of hiring patterns among ESG data professionals will cheer market participants who repudiate claims that the sustainable investment movement is on the wane. Asset managers dedicated a tenth of their ESG recruitment expenditure to hiring data integration and analytics expertise in the past year as they stepped up reporting of ESG metrics….
Mackenzie Investments Selects Bloomberg to Manage ESG data
Mackenzie Investments, a large Canadian investment management firm, has selected Bloomberg to manage its ESG data. The data vendor’s cloud-based Data License Plus (DL+) ESG Manager will be used to host the acquisition, management and publishing of multi-vendor ESG data, allowing the firm to implement ESG investing approaches more efficiently and develop more sophisticated ESG-focused…
Euronext Launches ‘First of-its-kind’ Exchange-based ESG Tool
Europe-wide market provider Euronext is ready to launch a “first of its kind” ESG tool providing comprehensive data, free of charge, to the market. The company’s My ESG Profile is now available to listed companies, before its public release scheduled mid-November. Issuers are currently in the process of reviewing the data collected by Euronext, and…
Arcesium Offers ESG Book Data Through Aquata Platform
American FinTech provider Arcesium is to offer its financial institution clients sustainability data from ESG Book, the Germany-based vendor and asset manager that is supported by a dozen major banks. Analysis, scores and other metrics on 50,000 companies will be provided by ESG Book through Arcesium’s cloud-based platform called Aquata.
Vendor Strategy: BIQH Adds Screening to ESG Data Tool Set
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…
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…