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More Names Added to Bring ISSB Team to 10
Four more members have been added to the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), the IFRS Foundation’s recently created body that’s been tasked with hammering out an international framework for ESG reporting. They are Richard Barker, of the University of Oxford Saïd Business School’s sustainable business initiatives; Verity Chegar of California State Teachers’ Retirement System; Bing…
A Guide to the Essential ESG Acronyms You Need to Know
Even Experts Need A Reminder of the ESG Alphabet Soup At the first-ever ESG Data and Tech Summit London last month, moderators Andrew Delaney, A-Team Group President and Chief Content Officer, and Data Management Insight Editor Sarah Underwood sat before a backdrop adorned with ESG-related acronyms, initials and abbreviations. As speakers and guests took their…
New Perspectives on ESG Challenges and Opportunities to be Debated at A-Team New York Briefing
Fresh from the success of A-Team’s inaugural ESG Data and Tech Summit London earlier this month, experts and market participants are now looking to New York where we will be hosting the first ESG Data Management Briefing. A host of high-level speakers from international banks, asset managers and data vendors will gather on June 16…
Temenos Launches ESG-as-a-Service for Wealth, Bank Clients
Banking software provider Temenos has created an ESG-as-a-service products that enable its bank and wealth management clients to create financial products to meet growing demand for sustainable investments. The new offering will run on the Swiss company’s Temenos Banking Cloud but can also be accessed via any cloud or on-premises infrastructure.
Arabesque Renames its X-Ray ESG Product as it Scales Business
Arabesque has rebranded its core S-Ray ESG data product to ESG Book, the name that had been given to its publicly available data resources. The German data provider and asset manager said the move was part of a scaling of its sustainability business. ESG Book was launched late last year with the backing of financial…
Citi Head of Sustainable Finance Reviews State of Play on Achieving ESG Goals
Financial institutions play a critical role in global sustainability and are making progress in ESG investment, yet significant challenges remain, not least the need for more and better data, and a common regulatory reporting framework. Jason Channell, managing director, head of sustainable finance, Citi Global Insights, at Citi, discussed the strategic imperative for capital markets…
FNZ Invests in ESG Data Provider GIST for its Wealth Tools
FNZ has deepened its ties with GIST, making a “strategic investment” in the sustainable data and analytics provider to extend its own ESG offering to wealthy clients. The New Zealand-founded digital wealth management platform said the deal would help enrich corporate data on FNZ Impact, the company’s sustainable investment tool that links its clients with…
FIs Spending $1.4m on ESG Analytics, Disclosure
A new study that puts a dollar cost to climate-related performance reporting has found that the cost of gathering, analysing and reporting data by financial institutes is $1.37 million annually, while corporate issuers spend US$533,000 a year on disclosures. The report by The SustainAbility Institute by ERM for Ceres and Persefoni, also found that firms…
A-Team ESG Data and Tech Summit Debuts with a Message of Care
“He who cares wins.” If the many takeaways from A-Team Group’s inaugural ESG Data and Tech Summit in London last week could be summarised in one quote, it is that from Sean Taylor, Executive Director, Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management. The former military serviceman paraphrased the slogan of the UK’s elite army corps, the SAS, to characterise…
ESG Data and Tech Summit: Planet and Profit Depend on Getting ESG Data Right
Getting ESG data right is vital not only for financial institutions’ bottom lines and to meet regulatory obligations but for the very survival of the planet. The hard-hitting observation was made by Phillip Miller, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive at software manager Solidatus in a keynote address to the inaugural A-Team Group ESG Insight Data and…