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Recorded Webinar: ESG standards and taxonomies – A progress report

15 June 2023

The development of ESG reporting and disclosure standards and taxonomies has progressed rapidly over the past few years, yet there is still no certainty on whether there will ever be measures that can be applied on a global basis. The EU leads the way in terms of ESG investment and regulation, ahead of Asia-Pacific and North America, begging the question of whether EU standards and taxonomies will become de facto across capital markets.

This webinar will review progress on ESG standards and taxonomies, consider where and how they are being used, and discuss why now is the time for financial institutions to prepare for further change. The webinar will also touch on technologies, solutions and services that can help firms stay current, and provide practical guidance on compliance, standards selection and taxonomy implementation.

Listen to the webinar to find out about:

  • The state of play on ESG standards and taxonomies
  • Ongoing progress in different jurisdictions
  • How to manage multiple standards and taxonomies
  • Impact on banks data and processes
  • Helpful technologies, solutions, and services
  • Benefits of getting it right, penalties of getting it wrong

Speakers:

Mark Davies Partner
Element22
Panagiota Balfousia Head of Sustainable Business Strategy
Kieger AG
Navin Rauniar Co-Chair, ESG Working Group & UK SteerCo Member
PRMIA
Bodo Windmöller SVP, Product Management
Regnology
Moderator: Sarah Underwood Editor
A-Team Group

More about our speakers:

Mark Davies

Partner

Element22

Mark is a partner with Element22, a data and analytics consultancy firm. His career includes over 15 years managing data and risk functions for three tier 1 banks. This was followed by 6 years as the General Manager of Avox, a managed data service company owned by DTCC and later by Thomson Reuters. Mark has been with Element22 since 2018 where he leads the London office and helps clients from across the financial services industry to modernise and expand their capabilities in Data Management. His recent focus has been on helping clients to solve unstructured data and ESG data challenges, including launching the ESGi data platform.

Panagiota Balfousia

Head of Sustainable Business Strategy

Kieger AG

Panagiota Balfousia manages the firm-wide sustainable investment and CSR strategy at Kieger. She was previously fund-selector at UBS, helping develop and launch impact strategies. Before, she was senior portfolio manager at Altis (NN IP), where she worked with Nordic-based institutions to define their sustainability preferences. She has an economics background.

Navin Rauniar

Co-Chair, ESG Working Group & UK SteerCo Member

PRMIA

Navin is a senior leader with circa 20 years run the bank, change the bank & Big 4 consulting experience across financial services. Navin typically connects C-suite stakeholders across business & technology, using domain expertise that focuses on risk management & capital markets, especially in response to prudential markets regulation such as LIBOR Transition, ESG, Climate Risk, TCFD, Brexit & Basel impacting an institutions’ strategy, process & governance. Internally, Navin leads the business & technology delivery for a number of regulations at Tier One banks. His offshoring & international experience assists in building diverse global delivery teams. Externally, Navin supports the capital markets community via mentoring of risk professionals, thought leadership at conferences and his contribution as a SteerCo member of the Professional Risk Managers Association (PRMIA). He is a regular speaker and chair at capital markets forums, as well as a frequent commentator to the press on financial market regulations.

Bodo Windmöller

SVP, Product Management

Regnology

For over 24 years, Bodo has been providing software and services to the financial industry with a focus on regulatory reporting and risk management and leading various topics like Basel III, ESG reporting, and IREF. Bodo has successfully built and scaled solutions in regulatory reporting for European banks and regulators.

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