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RIMM Chief Sees Brighter Future for EM Sustainability Data
Increasing Western focus on supply-chain disclosures will accelerate the ingestion of emerging-market ESG data into global systems, according to the chief executive of a corporate sustainability services provider. With a large proportion of the world’s manufacturers, suppliers and logistics providers located in developing economies, new oversight rules requiring Scope 3 emissions will increase data flows…
Estimand AI is Finding ESG Influences Nobody Knew Existed
Bananas aren’t the first things that come to mind when considering how to gauge the effectiveness of an ESG investment thesis. But the link between the price of the humble tropical fruit and historical economic events are among the unlikely findings of a 11-month-old artificial intelligence-based modelling company that’s helping sustainability investors look at their…
SIX Climate Data Launch Ushers ‘One-Stop Shop’ Data Era
SIX has kickstarted a programme of ESG product releases planned for 2024 with the unveiling of a climate data offering, part of the Swiss financial services giant’s evolution into a “one-stop shop” for data and analytics. The latest addition to SIX’s sustainability data armoury will feature climate-specific datasets supplied by MSCI, Inrate and the CDP,…
ISS ESG Enhances Biodiversity Tool to Offer Portfolio Report
The sustainable investment arm of ISS STOXX, ISS ESG, has enhanced its biodiversity assessment product with a new portfolio report, and has expanded the full solution’s coverage to over 17,000 companies. ISS ESG’s Biodiversity Impact Assessment Tool (BIAT) Portfolio Report add-on enables investors to compare a portfolio’s biodiversity risk and impact against a benchmark, and is…
Museum of Nature’s History Offers Investors Clues to its Future
From fossils of the largest beasts to have roamed Earth to microscopic organisms, the ornate halls of London’s Natural History Museum are stuffed with 80 million specimens that chart the past 5 billion years of evolution. The 142-year-old institution is also a repository and manager of data that may hold the key to predicting how…
Basel Committee to Seek More Data Under Climate-Risk Disclosure Proposal
Banks may be expected to disclose detailed data on their exposure to climate risks under new proposals by the banking standards-setter, despite its expressed concern over the suitability of current datasets. The Bank of International Settlements’ Basel Committee has published its outline approach to protecting lenders and investors from the channelling of funds to potentially…
Apex Group to Help Private Markets With MJ Hudson ESG Purchase
Apex Group will harness the ESG data and advisory firepower of its recent acquisition to capitalise on an expected surge in reported sustainability data in its services to private markets, which account for at least a third of financial institutions’ investments. The investor services company’s purchase of MJ Hudson’s ESG software and advisory team boosts…
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…
EthicsAnswer Creates ESG-Trained AI to Ease Disclosure Pain
A SaaS platform is using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to significantly reduce the burden of sustainability disclosure requests from investors and other stakeholders faced by chief sustainability officers (CSOs). Welsh company EthicsAnswer says its GenAI product will substantially reduce the time it takes for CSOs to complete ESG surveys and will improve accuracy. The tool is backed by a large-language model (LLM) that is trained on more than 46,000 publicly…
Financial Institutions Turn to AI and Cloud to Solve Data Challenges
Financial institutions are undergoing digital transformations that are seeing them harness the full potential of the huge volumes of data they generate. Importantly, to do that they are deploying the technologies that are already defining our era – artificial intelligence (AI) and the cloud. From streamlining back-office processes to informing front-office decision making, and from…