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Latest Stage of UK SDR Comes into Force
The next stage of the UK’s sustainability disclosure requirements (SDR) came into effect today, enabling companies to use the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) new labelling regime for investment products. The four labels are designed to more accurately reflect the level of sustainability of each product. They have been designed, along with anti-greenwashing rules and guidance…
ISS STOXX Offers Banks, Insurers New ESG Compliance Data Tool
ISS ESG, the sustainability arm of ISS STOXX, has unveiled its Industry Average Emissions Intensity dataset for use by banks and insurance companies. The latest addition to the Switzerland-headquartered data and technology provider’s Climate Solutions suite of tools is designed to help companies comply with regulations including the European Banking Authority (EBA) Pillar 3 ESG…
Meeting New Capital Markets Challenges: Gresham and Alveo Leaders Discuss Merger and Future Plans
The merger of Gresham Technologies and Alveo, which was announced last week, was born of a desire by each company to scale their capabilities to meet growing international demand from financial institutions at a time of increased focus on data management. The venture saw Gresham Technologies delist from the public market to create the new…
ESG Book Names RegTech Veteran Fitzpatrick as New Chief Executive
ESG Book has named Justin Fitzpatrick, the founder and executive of several UK-based RegTech companies, as its new chief executive replacing global sustainability leader Daniel Klier. The Germany-based data and tech company, which made headlines in 2021 when it put a large part of its ESG database on a free-to-use platform, said Fitzpatrick has “deep expertise…
Building Future Growth Around a Foundational Data Core: SIX’s Marion Leslie
There’s a neat symmetry in speaking to Marion Leslie, head of financial information at SIX after one of the busiest six months in the company’s recent history. SIX, a global data aggregator and operator of exchanges in its native Switzerland, as well as in Spain, has released a flurry of new data products since January,…
Moody’s-MSCI Partnership Seen Impacting ESG Ratings Sector
Moody’s and MSCI have bolstered their ESG offerings with a tie-up that will see them share some of each other’s sustainability capabilities in a move that’s been predicted to concentrate global ESG ratings provision. As part of the arrangement, ratings provider Moody’s will gain access to MSCI’s data and models, which will eventually replace its…
Webinar Review: ESG Data Sourcing and Management to Meet Your ESG Strategy, Objectives and Timeline
Taming the data management challenges of ESG integration offers huge rewards for financial institutions. But the difficulty of overcoming those hurdles has increased as the volume and variety of that data swells, exposing firms to potentially severe operational, legal and reputational risks. For that reason, getting ESG data management right has become an important goal…
Recorded Webinar: ESG data sourcing and management to meet your ESG strategy, objectives and timeline
ESG data plays a key role in research, fund product development, fund selection, asset selection, performance tracking, and client and regulatory reporting, yet it is not always easy to source and manage in a complete, transparent and timely manner. This webinar will review the state-of-play on ESG data, consider the challenges of sourcing and managing…
UK’s Debut SDR Rules Raise Data Management Concern
The UK’s newly implemented sustainability disclosure requirements (SDR) have placed additional data management burdens on financial institutions that operate in the UK. The country’s first such framework, created by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is aimed at preventing greenwashing and fostering trust in British sustainability markets. It’s designed to protect the interests of investors by…
The New Frontier of Outsourced Data Management: S&P Global Market Intelligence Report
Digitalisation has taken financial institutions along a prosperous path of better understanding, management and utilisation of the data that their activities generate. But technological evolution and the changed economic environment have placed a new set of challenges onto their shoulders. Institutions are now grappling with how they can take their digital programme further, especially given…