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UK Moves Dial on ESG Data Assurance and Regulations
The UK has moved further along the dial of sustainability and reporting regulations with a slew of developments that suggest new rules are imminent. Announcements covering data assurance and biodiversity disclosure standards were announced a week after the Chancellor of the Exchequer signalled in his annual budget speech that ratings companies will come under the…
Vendor Strategy: Impact Cubed Has a 3D Vision for ESG
The novelty of the ESG data space has inspired many innovations to help financial institutions build their sustainability investment and risk programmes. Most have sought to fill gaps in the nascent data market. Impact Cubed, however, found its impetus in a very different experience: disenchantment with what was already on offer. The investment solutions company was…
‘Idiosyncratic’ Data Keeps Lazard ESG Tech Chief on His Toes
Lazard Asset Management’s (LAM) director of ESG data and analytics Gregory Van Droogenbroeck received a baptism of fire when he shifted to the investment giant from technology behemoth Bloomberg. The day he joined the company Russia invaded Ukraine, catalysing an existential rethink of some of the assumptions that had been built into the ESG project….
Surveys Highlight Two Sides of ESG Market Evolution
Regulatory demands are expected to help boost spending on ESG data to a record this year but a significant part of the institutional space remains concerned that those same rules will limit the choice of sustainable investments. Two recent surveys suggest that investors continue to champion sustainable markets. One, by management consultancy Opimas estimates that…
ESG Data &Tech Summit London 2024 to Shine Light on Changing Industry
What a difference a year makes. As A-Team Group prepares for its third annual ESG Data and Tech Summit London in May, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment in the evolution of sustainable market data. In March 2022, we were anticipating momentous change. After years of growth in sustainable markets, participants were braced for a slew…
SEC Disclosure Rules Welcomed but Unlikely to Fill Data Gaps
In finally announcing its long-awaited code on corporate reporting of climate-related data, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has both delighted and annoyed participants in sustainability markets. While SEC chair Gary Gensler’s announcement last week of the US’s first-ever rule on ESG disclosures will help fill a gaping chasm in the global regulatory landscape, many…
Survey Highlights Wide Price Differences for Comparable Data
Some asset managers and financial firms are paying as much as four times more than their peers for the same ESG data, according to research that underlines the immaturity of the market for sustainability information. The huge disparities in pricing for data, ratings and indexes emerged in a survey that also found buy-side and sell-side…
ESG Driving Data Management Innovation, Says Curium
ESG is driving innovation in data management processes as growing customer and regulatory demand for high-quality sustainability capabilities pressure financial institutions to adapt. The large volumes of information that organisations need to fulfil their sustainability mandates and to comply with emerging regulations has forced data scientists to devise new ways to manage their content. Furthermore,…
One Year in, Wolters Kluwer Sees New ESG Solution Grow
Last February, Wolters Kluwer created a separate ESG-focused division within its global software solutions and services business. The Corporate Performance and ESG (CP and ESG) division brought together four existing software units to offer the company’s global banking clients integrated financial, operational, and ESG performance management and reporting solutions. Presided over by Karen Abramson, former…
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…