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Recorded Webinar: From Data to Impact: Empowering Asset Managers and Owners with ESG Solutions for Net Zero Transformation
As asset managers and owners embark on their net zero journey, aligning with the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) and Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) initiatives, they will encounter various challenges. One of these revolves around effectively managing and using data, as the volume and complexity of data related to emissions, sustainability, and environmental…
RIMM Tool Provides ESG Missing Link, Says Outspoken Expert Beslik
Sasja Beslik is an unusual figure within the ESG ecosystem. The newly appointed senior adviser to RIMM, a sustainability data and tech provider, is passionate about getting ESG right within the investment industry. But he is critical – to the point of damning – of the way it’s currently being managed. “The entire purpose with…
ESG Ratings Regulation Proposal Questioned Over Green Deal Alignment
An EU proposal to regulate ESG rating agencies has been criticised for failing to align with the bloc’s broader green finance laws. While the European Commission’s (EC) proposed regulation has been widely welcomed, critics including the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) say several shortcomings would render it ineffective. An ESG ratings experts…
CDP Urges G20 to Back Nature Disclosures
Nature-related impact disclosures should be made mandatory for financial institutions and companies, CDP has urged on the eve of a meeting of the world’s 20 richest countries and trading blocs. The disclosure organisation warned the G20 that without such data, greenwashing could remain a challenge and that biodiversity would suffer.
FinTech Veterans Create Data, Technology and Services ‘Ecosystem’ to Solve Regulatory Challenges
The battery of ESG and financial regulations introduced in the past few years – and the future rules already in an advanced state of preparation – are weighing on institutions as the threat of censure for breaches increases. But a team of FinTech specialists has come up with a novel approach to helping all parties,…
NatWest Pilots AI Solution to Help Enable ESG Data Insights for SME Clients
NatWest Bank is the UK’s largest lender to small and medium-sized businesses, a success story it proudly broadcasts and an achievement the bank maintains through a robust data management strategy that enables it to provide finance to some of the most difficult-to-reach borrowers. Like other banks, the strength of NatWest’s system has been tested in…
SimCorp Integrates Clarity AI Sustainability Data into Investment Management Platform
SimCorp, currently the subject of an all-cash offer from Deutsche Börse, has integrated Clarity AI’s sustainability datasets into its investment management platform providing institutional investors with access to AI-powered datasets that will help them align with EU sustainable finance regulations and execute impact investing strategies. Clarity AI uses machine learning and big data to deliver…
ESG Book Chosen to Support Data Project in Asia
ESG Book will provide data to an Asian-based project to address gaps in the sustainability data record. ESG Book, a open data initiative led by vendor Arabesque and backed by a dozen major banks, will be among providers of information to the Sustainable Finance Institute Asia’s (SFIA) Single Access Point for ESG Data (SAFE) initiative….
MSCI and Google to Harness Generative AI in ESG Data Offering
MSCI and Google Cloud are to jointly create generative AI solutions in an expansion of a collaborative effort to build a data marketplace for ESG investors. MSCI intends to offer the technology driven by Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, along with its climate tools BigQuery Geospatial and Earth Engine.
Financial Institutions Slow to Disclose Nature-Related Metrics: CDP
A prominent sustainability disclosures body has said data availability and accuracy are contributory factors in financial institutions’ slow reaction to addressing biodiversity loss linked to their investments. Only one in 10 banks, asset owners, asset managers and insurers disclosing metrics on their portfolios’ impacts forests and water security, the CDP said in its latest examination…