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A-Team Group Names Winners of ESG Insight Awards 2023
A-Team Group announced the winners of its ESG Insight Awards 2023 after the close of today’s lively and informative ESG Data and Tech Summit in London. The awards recognise both established solution vendors and innovative newcomers providing leading ESG solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants. This year’s ESG Insight Awards included over 20…
Dig Deeper: Carbon Markets Are Hiding a Gem
New data reveals how carbon emissions can unlock investment in decarbonisation By Jan Ahrens, Chief Executive, SparkChange. There is little doubt global warming presents a catastrophe for humanity, and that it requires unprecedented investment to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. McKinsey estimates $9.2trn per year. When we talk about the financial effects of…
ESG Ratings Providers See Calls for Regulation Snowball
The knives are out for ESG rating firms. Often criticised for their lack of consistency in assessing companies’ sustainability and ESG performances, ratings providers are now the subject of regulatory scrutiny with UK officials last week saying such companies were failing green markets. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the opacity of the methodologies of…
ISS ESG Creates Cybersecurity Score, Index as Investors Link Data Protection to ESG
Cybersecurity used to be regarded purely as a technology and operations issue. But more and more investors are drawing a line between vigilance against data breaches and ESG performance. Protecting personal privacy of corporate employees and customers through the security of data is widely viewed today as falling under the social pillar of ESG. Further,…
UK Opens Talks on Regulating ESG Ratings Providers
The UK has taken a step further along its programme of market sustainability reforms. In the Treasury’s latest update to its Green Finance Strategy, which was launched in 2019, ministers presented a consultation paper that proposes bringing ESG ratings providers under the gaze of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Further announcements indicated that nuclear power…
Eurex Adds ESG Tools to Derivatives Clearing
European derivatives exchange Eurex is incorporating climate assessment tools in its clearing business, enabling members to examine the sustainability of their portfolios and, eventually, apply that to the €11 trillion of trades it manages every month. Members of the central counterparty platform owned by Deutsche Börse will be able to use two tools in the…
‘Surprise’ Success for PE Start-up Novata Rolls on With New Funding
No one seems more surprised with the speed of success of data and benchmarking start-up Novata than its senior management. Within just a year, the US-based company has become a leading name in the private equity markets’ burgeoning involvement in sustainable investing, attracting the interest in the largest investors in the sector. That has been…
Data, Tech Rising to Water Challenge as Historic UN Meeting Highlights Alarm
History will be made in New York next week when heads of state from around the world gather for the first United Nations Water Conference in half a century. The fact that it is being held at all underlines the growing importance of water to the global sustainability project. Water-based issues, from pollution, stewardship, overuse…
ESG Book to Provide Data and Tech to Korean Member of BDO
ESG Book, the sustainability information and scores provider backed by an alliance of large banks and institutions, is to supply data and technology to Korea’s BDO Sunghyun. The independent member of the global BDO accounting and tax advisory network will be able to access ESG Book’s raw ESG and climate data, company- and portfolio-level scores…
Alveo Integrates MSCI ESG Research Content into DaaS Data Management Solution
Alveo has integrated MSCI ESG Research content into its Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) data management solution, giving clients access to both firms’ data and cloud data management capabilities, and providing solutions that integrate MSCI’s content into client workflows and help business users self-serve. Integrated MSCI content includes MSCI ESG Ratings, ESG Controversies and ESG Sustainable Impact Metrics,…