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ICE Service Enables Disclosure According to TCFD Framework
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has unveiled a tool that helps its financial institution clients disclose their sustainability performance in line with Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The new service pulls in ICE’s climate transition data and analytics, corporate-entity and green bond data.
EFRAG Gives Nod to EU Corporate Sustainable Reporting Standards
ESG reporting standards for European companies have been approved. The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) gave its backing to the final version of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), which will prescribe how companies must disclose their ESG performance.
European Parliament Adopts CSRD
The European Union’s parliament has endorsed the creation of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the regulation that’s intended to oblige larger non-financial companies to disclose their ESG performance. The parliament overwhelmingly approved the formation of the framework, which is to be implemented by the end of next year.
CDP Adopts ISSB-Created Reporting Template
CDP will integrate into its disclosures platform a newly created template that’s likely to form the basis of a global reporting standard for climate-related performance. CDP will use the IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures that’s being drawn up by the International Sustainable Standards Board. The board was created at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, last year to…
COP27 Announcements Highlight Critical Role of ESG Data
The COP27 climate summit in Egypt has put ESG data firmly in the spotlight as a key enabler of the financial sector’s critical role in solving the global sustainability challenges. From the formal unveiling of a global plan to make sustainability data accessible to every investor to the announcement of further progress in narrowing in…
ESG is Magnifying Data Management Challenges
Data management strategies necessarily have to change with markets, with trading trends, with technology and with a host of other inputs that inform the ever-changing financial landscape. Without effective management, data is useless. If it can’t be accessed, if it isn’t clean, if it is out of date or if it can’t be found then…
FCA Proposes Tough Anti-Greenwashing Rules for UK
The UK’s financial regulator has issued its toughest set of proposals yet to crack down on greenwashing. The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) proposed Sustainable Disclosures Requirements contains a list of measures, including rules on labelling of green financial products and restrictions on the language that can be used to describe green investment instruments, that it…
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…
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,…