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ISS ESG to Update Cyber Risk Score Model
ISS ESG is to tweak the model behind its recently launched Cyber Risk Score to make it easier to identify “good” and “bad” scores. “The ability for this model to differentiate ‘goods’ from ‘bads’ by discerning forward-looking risk, is a key differentiator in the market,” the company said. The new version, 5.0, also updates its…
TNFD Signals Launch of Free Nature-based Data Repository
Investors could soon have access to two free, centralised repositories of sustainability data following the announcement by a leading biodiversity standards setter that it is mulling the creation of a publicly accessible knowledge store. The plan was announced as heads of state, bankers and environmentalists gathered in Paris to discuss ways of making the global…
Finastra, Green RWA Launch Free-to-Use Climate Risk Tool in Development Sandbox
Finastra has lent its FinTech expertise and capabilities to an initiative that’s building a model to help banks boost their resilience to climate risks. The London-based company has devised an interface that enables financial institutions, regulators and the public to access the Climate-Extended Risk Model (CERM) risk framework. Users, by their participation, also contribute ideas…
Sphera Launches Cloud-Based AI Climate Risk Tool
Investor clients of ESG risk management software provider Sphera can access the company’s new SpheraCloud Corporate Sustainability-Portfolio Management service. The product offers financed emissions and portfolio emissions data, using AI.
ESG Risk Tool to be Reviewed by ISS ESG
ISS ESG is to adjust the methodology and data underlying its Environmental & Social Disclosure QualityScore product. The environmental and social risk assessment tool will undergo changes by the third quarter in response to changed disclosure standards. The Maryland-based sustainable investment arm of Institutional Shareholder Services said more than 150 factors underlying the score would…
Data Innovator Tanya Seajay Takes Engaging Next Step in ESG Evolution
After almost a decade at the helm of one of the ESG space’s most innovative data companies, Tanya Seajay took a wellness break. With her departure from Orenda, the alternative data company she founded and built into a ground-breaking vendor of ESG sentiment data, she wanted time to think over her next move. “I just…
ESG Data and Tech Summit Report: Coming to Terms with Climate Risks
Quantifying risks to assets posed by changes in the climate and companies’ transitions to meeting net-zero carbon goals are being baked into organisations’ risk-management workflows. What many had regarded as a conceptual risk has become an apparent one, as the increased occurrence of severe weather events caused by global warming have led to record levels…
Video: RepRisk’s Maryse Gordon Discusses Approaches to ESG Risk Assessment
In this video, Maryse Gordon, partnerships and business development manager at RepRisk, an ESG data science firm combining machine learning and human intelligence to identify ESG risks, talks to Sarah Underwood, an editor at A-Team Group, at A-Team’s recent ESG Data & Tech Summit London. The discussion spans the challenges of ESG data, the need…
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…
Clarity AI, GIST Impact and S&P Launch Biodiversity Tools for Investors
A partnership service between sustainability technology platform Clarity AI and impact data intelligence provider GIST Impact is among new biodiversity tools unveiled for financial institutions in the past week. They join S&P Global unit Sustainable 1, which has taken the sheets off a new dataset that helps investors track the nature-based impact and dependencies of…