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ESG Ratings Providers See Calls for Regulation Snowball
The knives are out for ESG rating firms. Often criticised for their lack of consistency in assessing companies’ sustainability and ESG performances, ratings providers are now the subject of regulatory scrutiny with UK officials last week saying such companies were failing green markets. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the opacity of the methodologies of…
ISS ESG Creates Cybersecurity Score, Index as Investors Link Data Protection to ESG
Cybersecurity used to be regarded purely as a technology and operations issue. But more and more investors are drawing a line between vigilance against data breaches and ESG performance. Protecting personal privacy of corporate employees and customers through the security of data is widely viewed today as falling under the social pillar of ESG. Further,…
Finastra Offers Clients Alternative Data from Alygne
Financial technology provider Finastra is to offer clients alternative ESG data from Alygne. London-based Finastra said the partnership with the data-scraping specialist would enable investors to manage their ESG objectives through integration with its Fusion Invest tool.
Bloomberg to Host ESG Book Data
Bloomberg is to offer ESG Book content to its customers, providing them with company-reported emissions and other climate-related data. ESG Book, which is a collaboration between data provider and asset manager Arabesque as well as a number of major banks and financial companies, covers almost 10,000 companies in its datasets.
Finastra ESG Service Seeks to Automate ESG Loan Premia Calculation for Banks
Loan pricing is a complicated business that’s being given an added shot of complexity by the requirement that borrowers’ ESG-linked performance be factored into the calculations. It’s a challenge that financial technology provider Finastra has sought to solve with a new “standalone” solution to complement its widely used Loan IQ corporate lending servicing system. The…
Data Start-up SparkChange Helps Investors Meet Climate Goals Via Carbon Markets
Jan Ahrens believes the majority of environmental sustainability investment theses are wrong. The problem, says the carbon markets economist, is that most strategies are built to reward companies that are environmentally clean and not also those that are striving to be clean. “It misses the mark of decarbonisation, because if we make it easy for…
UK Opens Talks on Regulating ESG Ratings Providers
The UK has taken a step further along its programme of market sustainability reforms. In the Treasury’s latest update to its Green Finance Strategy, which was launched in 2019, ministers presented a consultation paper that proposes bringing ESG ratings providers under the gaze of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Further announcements indicated that nuclear power…
Eurex Adds ESG Tools to Derivatives Clearing
European derivatives exchange Eurex is incorporating climate assessment tools in its clearing business, enabling members to examine the sustainability of their portfolios and, eventually, apply that to the €11 trillion of trades it manages every month. Members of the central counterparty platform owned by Deutsche Börse will be able to use two tools in the…
BSI Examining Better Use of Data to Improve Firms’ ESG Performance
The drafters of a new standard to help financial companies manage their sustainability obligations and targets is also working with academics to identify how data can be better used to improve ESG performances. The British Standards Institution (BSI) has enlisted the help of universities, including Oxford, in its IMPACT programme to work out ways that…
RepRisk Makes ESG Data Accessible from Snowflake Marketplace
RepRisk’s ESG risk data is now available on Snowflake Marketplace, giving sustainable market professionals easy access to the Swiss company’s content without having to adapt their internal processes. Through Snowflake’s platform, RepRisk says customers can be assured of data security, scalability, assessment and governance. Its data is collated from sources other than corporate self-disclosures to…