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ESG Book Teams with BCG to Streamline Data Sourcing and Disclosure
Sustainability data and technology provider ESG Book is working with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to make it easier for financial institutions and companies to report their ESG performance and source ESG data. The companies have created LEO from ESG Book’s reporting platform and BCG’s Climate and Sustainability Data Template, which helps companies identify and report…
DMI Euro Award Winner WeeFin Raises €25m in Funding Round for ESG Platform
ESG data management startup WeeFin has raised €25 million in a Series B funding round to help develop its SaaS platform for the financial services sector. The Paris-based startup, which won last year’s Data Management Insight Euro Award for Best Data Management Initiative for ESG, said the capital injection was led by BlackFin Capital Partners,…
Data Concern Over EU’s Streamlining of Green Regulations
Financial institutions may have to rely more heavily on their data teams and vendors to surface sustainability risks in their portfolios after the European Union watered down some of its key corporate ESG reporting regulations. The EU’s Omnibus package announced earlier this year is intended to streamline the compliance processes for regulations including the Corporate…
S&P Global Extends ESG Data Offering with Snowflake
A new public and private entity ESG data service is available to clients of S&P Global Market Intelligence on the Snowflake platform, extending a tie-up between the two companies. Part of S&P Global’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Insights Platform, the Global Entity Linking and ESG Data Management Services offering enables clients to clean and map…
Recorded Webinar: Strategies and solutions for unlocking value from unstructured data
Unstructured data accounts for a growing proportion of the information that capital markets participants are using in their day-to-day operations. Technology – especially generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) – is enabling organisations to prise crucial insights from sources – such as social media posts, news articles and sustainability and company reports – that were all but…
Critical but Challenging – Managing Unstructured Data: A-Team Webinar Preview
Unstructured data accounts for an estimated 80 per cent of companies’ data estate and the volume of that information is forecast to grow by a third each year. Consequently, management of the class of data that is being culled from sources as diverse as financial reports and social media posts has become a pressing challenge….
Data’s Role in AI Transition and Value Creation: Data Management Summit London Preview
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence by financial institutions has required a heavy data management uplift as organisations have upgraded their systems to incorporate the new technology. It has also provided greater opportunity to squeeze even more value from data by enabling its efficient deployment across enterprises. Just how companies manage data for AI to…
Challenges of the New Regulatory Landscape: Data Management Summit London Preview
The regulatory landscape for financial institutions has rarely been in greater flux than now, placing new challenges on the technology and data that will be critical to satisfying the requirements of overseers. While digital innovations are offering organisations the opportunity to meet their compliance obligations with greater accuracy and efficiency, they are also encouraging regulators…
Bloomberg Expands Climate Risk Offering with MARS Enhancement
Bloomberg clients can now use the New York-based company’s MARS risk management tool to assess the threats to their portfolios from climate change. MARS Climate, an addition to the data behemoth’s physical and transition risk suite of analytics, offers climate scenario analyses based on the framework devised by the Network for Greening Financial System (NGFS)….
Businesses Struggling with ESG Data that will Aid SFDR Compliance
Most businesses are struggling to prepare their data to meet a new European regulation that is designed in part to deliver huge troves of corporate ESG information into financial institutions’ systems. More than four-fifths of companies questioned in a study by data mastering company Semarchy said they lack confidence in their data management capabilities to…