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Robeco Launches Biodiversity, Avoided Emissions Tools
Asset manager Robeco has launched a sectoral biodiversity analysis tool that helps investors identify an issuer’s risks to nature and resource loss as well as its nature performance. The Biodiversity Traffic Light tool was built with the input of asset owners and cleaves to the guidelines of the Taskforce for Nature-Related Disclosures. It focusses on…
Diginex Collaboration Builds ESG Reporting Tool for Malaysian Companies
ESG technology provider Diginex has collaborated with artificial intelligence technology firm AIKYA to build a sustainability reporting tool to help businesses in Malaysia access sustainable finance opportunities, among other benefits. DiginexESG is built to enable reporting according to Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure guidelines as well…
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…