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ESG Space Has Strengthened Under Pressure, Summit Lead Speaker Says
The ESG space has emerged stronger from a bruising year of criticism, with financial institutions and companies alike taking a more considered approach to integrating sustainability considerations into their operations. That is the message from the lead speaker at this year’s ESG Data and Tech Summit London, who also forecasts that vendors and users will…
FCA Greenwashing Rule Raises Questions Over Data Requirements
The UK will implement its own anti-greenwashing rule at the end of this month but some industry participants are concerned that its data requirements are vague and could be misinterpreted by institutions. The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) rule, part of its broader Sustainability Disclosure Requirement (SDR), expects companies to ensure that any sustainability claims made…
Bloomberg Releases Tool for Sustainable Investment Screening
Bloomberg has released a tool that helps investors assess portfolios, funds and indices based on sustainability criteria and thresholds customised by the user. Available on the Bloomberg Terminal and based on the company’s ESG data, the solution facilitates a transparent screening process and can be used for both making investment decisions and to help clients…
A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2024
A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2024. The awards celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets with a focus on data management, trading technology, RegTech or ESG. This year’s…
Singapore Skills Boost Shines Light on Global Data Talent Gap
The Singaporean regulator’s pledge to spend SGD35 million (US$26m) to upskill and reskill financial industry professionals in sustainable finance has highlighted a global shortage of ESG talent. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said the cash will be spent over three years to support training initiatives that meet the expertise challenges of the novel investment…
Investor Initiative Aims to Improve Corporate Human Rights Data
A plan to improve the human rights data available to financial institutions is close to inauguration, supported a multi trillion-dollar coalition of asset owners and managers. The Investor Initiative on Human Rights Data (II-HRD) is in the process of gathering an alliance of institutions to engage with data providers and proxy advisers to bring clarity…
Emissions Data Disclosures Jump, MSCI Report Says
More companies are reporting their greenhouse gas data – including Scope 3 emissions – to investors and regulators, according to a report that suggests yawning gaps in corporate ESG records may be closing. Scope 3 data, which tracks the emissions of businesses within corporate supply and distribution chains, is now reported fully or in part…
Colmore Integrates Dasseti Sustainability Tech into PE Data Portal
Post-investment services firm Colmore is the latest company to engage sustainability software provider Dasseti in private markets data processes. The unit of British alternative assets business Preqin coordinates data gathering and other services for limited partners (LPs) and allocators – which largely comprise financial institutional investors. It has integrated Dasseti Collect into its suite of…
New Bloomberg Indices Provide Sovereign Bond Climate-Tilted Benchmarks
Investors seeking to integrate measures of climate transition risk into the portfolio management process **can now benchmark against countries’ climate preparedness via a new set of Bloomberg indices. The Bloomberg Government Climate Tilted Bond Index family integrates carbon-reduction performance and other factors into sovereign bond indices. They are built with Bloomberg’s proprietary Government Climate Scores, which…
$10m Cash Injection Adds Fuel to IDL Growth
Iceberg Data Lab’s (IDL) meteoric growth has been given another boost. The Paris-based ESG data start-up last week received a US$10 million cash injection in a series A funding round. The company, which uses artificial intelligence to power a data model that founder Matthieu Maurin boasts has “no data gaps”, received backing from investors including…