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Level 2 SFDR ESG Disclosure Requirements are on the Horizon – Is Your Organisation Ready to Comply?
The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is central to the European drive towards a sustainable financial market. It is also complicated and multi-faceted, and makes rigorous demands on financial firms to source large volumes of ESG data and meet numerous reporting obligations. Key elements of disclosure include sustainability risk, principle adverse impacts, and a…
‘Light Bulb’ Moment Looms for Data Reporting, Says Solidatus
The financial data industry is experiencing an ESG “lightbulb moment” as regulators and financial institutions get to grips with challenges facing corporate disclosure and data quality, according to Solidatus. The recent introduction of the EU’s SFDR and, probably more importantly, the Bank of England’s stress tests of lenders’ climate risks are likely to prove a…
Greenwashing Being Aided by Inconsistent Data, Say Experts
The growth of ESG data sources will be a powerful weapon in the battle against greenwashing, but a lack of consistency within datasets and the difficulty many companies face in providing enough intel is increasing opportunities for them to exaggerate their achievements, according to leading industry figures. Long-standing challenges such as standardisation of unstructured data…
AutoRek Urges Industry to Prepare for Jan 1 IFPR Start
Automated reconciliations provider AutoRek has warned firms to start preparing their systems for the complex calculations and processes they will need to undertake to be compliant with the UK’s incoming Investment Firms Prudential Regime (IFPR), which go live on January 1 – now less than 100 days away. IFPR is being introduced by the Financial…
UK FCA Targets up to £4 billion of Reporting Costs via Transforming Data Collection Initiative
The Financial Conduct Authority’s involvement in the Bank of England’s Transforming Data Collection Initiative is aimed at reducing industry reporting costs of as much as £4 billion, according to FCA CEO Nikhil Rathi. The initiative – launched in February – aims to deliver improvements in data collection over the next decade. Speaking last week at…
Video: Panel Addresses ESG Data and Reporting Challenges
Watch this expert panel discussion from ESG Briefing Virtual featuring: Moderator: Navin Rauniar, Partner, TCS & MD, PRMIA UK Steering Committee Hany Choueiri, Chief Data Officer, Aldermore Bank Lynn Watts, Head of Data Governance, Royal London Asset Management Philip Miller, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Solidatus Fraser Hall, Global Product Manager – FinReg, Adenza Do you enjoy…
Video: Panel Discusses Leveraging Data Science and AI, NLP and Machine Learning for Insight
Watch this playback video from ESG Briefing Virtual, with expert speakers: Moderator: Mark Davies, Partner, Element 22 Priyank Patwa, Director of M&G Labs, M&G Vincent Orti, Head of Data Solutions, Liontrust Asset Management Graham Taylor, ESG Data Science Lead, Data Insights Unit, Schroders Tanya Seajay, CEO & Founder, Orenda, a SIX company Do you enjoy…
Data an Obstacle to Banks’ ESG Reporting, Says Acin
Banks and asset managers are failing to deal with climate risks adequately, according to a survey whose authors said a lack of “true, fair, accurate, honest and comprehensive” data was partly responsible. Risk and control data standards provider Acin said only 19 per cent of 63 global organisations surveyed on their preparedness to meet climate-related…
Video: Panel Discusses Leveraging Data Science and AI, NLP and Machine Learning for Insight
Watch this playback video from ESG Briefing Virtual, with expert speakers: Moderator: Mark Davies, Partner, Element 22 Priyank Patwa, Director of M&G Labs, M&G Vincent Orti, Head of Data Solutions, Liontrust Asset Management Graham Taylor, ESG Data Science Lead, Data Insights Unit, Schroders Tanya Seajay, CEO & Founder, Orenda, a SIX company Do you enjoy…
Video: Panel Addresses ESG Data and Reporting Challenges
Watch this expert panel discussion from ESG Briefing Virtual featuring: Moderator: Navin Rauniar, Partner, TCS & MD, PRMIA UK Steering Committee Hany Choueiri, Chief Data Officer, Aldermore Bank Lynn Watts, Head of Data Governance, Royal London Asset Management Philip Miller, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Solidatus Fraser Hall, Global Product Manager – FinReg, Adenza Do you enjoy…