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Start-up Net Purpose Has Sustainable Investing in its Sights
The well-known maxim “if you want something done well, do it yourself” is one that Samantha Duncan has taken to heart. After years working as head of impact at emerging markets-focused LeapFrog Investments, she found herself inspired by the continuous flows of sustainable capital, but frustrated: not only was the data challenge to measure ESG…
FinTech Specialists Retool as Clients Clamour for ESG Services
Growing demand for sustainability disclosures from investors and regulators has seen service providers to financial institutions retool and create new products for their clients. While solutions that enable corporates to identify and report their own ESG metrics have entered the market in large numbers over the past few years, there has been a quieter expansion…
ESMA Makes ESG Data and Markets a Priority
Europe’s markets overseer has placed improving the quality and access to ESG data and financial markets among its priorities for the next five years. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said also in its 2023-2028 Strategy report that it was ready to put the European Union’s sustainability regulations in place and act as supervisor…
How Controversy Monitoring Can Help Shape ESG Policy
Tracking the companies that are performing well in terms of ESG is just one part of the sustainable finance story – but like everything, there’s a dark side too. Monitoring errant companies can be just as valuable as tracking those with the best records, particularly for establishing risk management strategies. One key means of doing…
A-Team Group Names Winners of ESG Insight Awards
A-Team Group announced the winners of its inaugural ESG Insight Awards today. The awards recognise both established solution vendors and innovative newcomers providing leading ESG solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants. The awards included over 20 categories of ESG solutions ranging from Best ESG risk data provider to Best overall ESG data provider,…
Data Quality and Management Crucial to Effective ESG Analysis
Analytics are helping financial institutes mine crucial insights from ESG data that’s helping to guide their decision-making processes. Analyses that can surface investment and hedging strategies, shape risk positioning and streamline regulatory compliance all work best when those datasets are properly managed. But ingesting information and making it useable remains a fundamental challenge, especially because…
As Biodiversity Climbs the ESG Agenda, ISS Unveils Nature-Linked Products
Institutional Shareholder Services’ (ISS) has launched a suite of nature- and natural resources-linked products as biodiversity protection and risk mitigation rise in prominence on among investor concerns. ISS ESG’s Biodiversity Impact Assessment Tool and the latest addition to its ESG indices, the Freshwater Index Series, are intended to give financial institutions better visibility into the…
Recorded Webinar: Approaches to ESG data for analytics
Volumes of ESG data are huge and continue to grow, questioning how financial institutions with a focus on ESG investing can continuously capture and contain required data sets, master and integrate the data, and ensure data quality for meaningful analytics. This webinar will consider approaches to ESG data and data management for analytics, the challenges…
ACA to Give Clients ‘Deep ESG Data Relationship’ With Ethos Acquisition
US-based compliance adviser to global asset managers ACA Group believes it can provide its clients with the critical ingredient they need to establish their ESG programmes – a deep understanding and relationship with sustainability data. The New York-headquartered company has acquired data specialist Ethos ESG, which provides data and ratings across the sustainability spectrum. Ethos’…
Apex Offers EU Taxonomy Alignment Product
Clients of global financial services provider Apex Group now have access to a new European Union Taxonomy product, which enables investors to assess their portfolios’ alignment with the sustainability classification guideline. The four-step process will give financial clients the opportunity to identify which of their investments are sustainable, manage data collection on the taxonomy’s strict…