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Iceberg Data Labs Confident its Model is Filling ESG Gaps
There’s no doubting Matthieu Maurin’s confidence in his company’s ESG data model. The founder and chief executive of Iceberg Data Labs, a fast-growing ESG data start-up that has netted clients such as Euronext, Aviva and HSBC in just four years of operations says it is solving for a range of challenges that keep chief data…
Australia Publishes Proposals for Sustainable Finance Strategy
Australia has outlined its proposed Sustainable Finance Strategy, including a taxonomy to help create a net-zero framework and a labelling system for green investment products. The Treasury set out its plans in a consultation document that had been promised in December last year. It calls for transparency in reporting climate impacts and materiality. Like its…
Investor Concern as Companies Found to be Ill-Prepared for ESG Data Assurance
Many companies lack the policies, skills and systems to ensure the ESG data they pass to investors and regulators is accurate and clean, according to a new survey. Just one in four companies questioned by KPMG in its inaugural ESG Assurance Maturity Index said they were confident they could provide assurance on their data, a…
S&P-Oliver Wyman Tie-Up Adds Physical Risk to Climate Data Service
S&P Global Market Intelligence has added climate-related physical risk metrics to its Climate Credit Analytics tool in a tie-up with management consulting firm Oliver Wyman. The product will be powered by S&P Sustainable1 data on more than 20,000 companies to help financial institutions assess their portfolio exposure to the risks associated with climate change. Climate…
ESG Book Develops EM Data Tool for FII
Sustainability data and technology firm ESG Book has developed a new service for The Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute designed to improve ESG data generated from emerging markets. Non-profit FII enlisted the Germany-based data vendor to create the Inclusive ESG Score to help companies within the regions better report on their sustainability efforts. It is…
Growing, Not Wavering: Data Suggests ESG is Defying its Critics
A recent survey of hiring patterns among ESG data professionals will cheer market participants who repudiate claims that the sustainable investment movement is on the wane. Asset managers dedicated a tenth of their ESG recruitment expenditure to hiring data integration and analytics expertise in the past year as they stepped up reporting of ESG metrics….
Mackenzie Investments Selects Bloomberg to Manage ESG data
Mackenzie Investments, a large Canadian investment management firm, has selected Bloomberg to manage its ESG data. The data vendor’s cloud-based Data License Plus (DL+) ESG Manager will be used to host the acquisition, management and publishing of multi-vendor ESG data, allowing the firm to implement ESG investing approaches more efficiently and develop more sophisticated ESG-focused…
Euronext Launches ‘First of-its-kind’ Exchange-based ESG Tool
Europe-wide market provider Euronext is ready to launch a “first of its kind” ESG tool providing comprehensive data, free of charge, to the market. The company’s My ESG Profile is now available to listed companies, before its public release scheduled mid-November. Issuers are currently in the process of reviewing the data collected by Euronext, and…
Arcesium Offers ESG Book Data Through Aquata Platform
American FinTech provider Arcesium is to offer its financial institution clients sustainability data from ESG Book, the Germany-based vendor and asset manager that is supported by a dozen major banks. Analysis, scores and other metrics on 50,000 companies will be provided by ESG Book through Arcesium’s cloud-based platform called Aquata.
Vendor Strategy: BIQH Adds Screening to ESG Data Tool Set
Screening is an effective means of ensuring financial products comprise the companies that suit a fund’s mandate. For ESG it’s been a potent tool for eliminating fossil fuel producers, tobacco companies, arms manufacturers and the gamut of businesses that are anathema to investment products built on the philosophy of doing good for humanity and the…