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Webinar Review: ESG Data Sourcing and Management to Meet Your ESG Strategy, Objectives and Timeline
Taming the data management challenges of ESG integration offers huge rewards for financial institutions. But the difficulty of overcoming those hurdles has increased as the volume and variety of that data swells, exposing firms to potentially severe operational, legal and reputational risks. For that reason, getting ESG data management right has become an important goal…
Recorded Webinar: ESG data sourcing and management to meet your ESG strategy, objectives and timeline
ESG data plays a key role in research, fund product development, fund selection, asset selection, performance tracking, and client and regulatory reporting, yet it is not always easy to source and manage in a complete, transparent and timely manner. This webinar will review the state-of-play on ESG data, consider the challenges of sourcing and managing…
UK’s Debut SDR Rules Raise Data Management Concern
The UK’s newly implemented sustainability disclosure requirements (SDR) have placed additional data management burdens on financial institutions that operate in the UK. The country’s first such framework, created by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is aimed at preventing greenwashing and fostering trust in British sustainability markets. It’s designed to protect the interests of investors by…
The New Frontier of Outsourced Data Management: S&P Global Market Intelligence Report
Digitalisation has taken financial institutions along a prosperous path of better understanding, management and utilisation of the data that their activities generate. But technological evolution and the changed economic environment have placed a new set of challenges onto their shoulders. Institutions are now grappling with how they can take their digital programme further, especially given…
Webinar Preview: ESG Data Management Challenge of New Sourcing Landscape
Financial institutions face a new set of ESG data management challenges even though data sourcing has become easier as the sustainability sector has matured. While more data is available to firms, thanks to a combination of new reporting regulations and standardisation of disclosure frameworks, the increasing variety of information needed and the volumes in which…
Summit Key Note Speakers Highlight Growing use of AI in Data Management
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) to data management processes has developed apace within the sustainability space as a necessity to help institutions make better use of the growing volumes of ESG information they need. From helping to pull data from unstructured sources, such as reports and other written documents, to cross-referencing and matching disparate…
The CSRD – Governance, Workflow, Data and Technology Impacts for 2024
In the rapidly evolving world of corporate governance, environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria have emerged as a cornerstone of responsible business practice. With stakeholders increasingly demanding transparency and accountability, the need for robust ESG reporting continues to grow. Enter the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the ambitious regulatory framework aimed at standardising sustainability reporting…
As Sustainability Data Sector Matures Challenges Remain: ESG Summit London Review
The ESG data sourcing challenge facing financial institutions has largely abated, but data quality remains an issue that even artificial intelligence (AI) can’t yet remedy. That was one of the key messages from the opening presentation at A-Team Group’s third annual ESG Data and Tech Summit London, in which Nirav Shah, senior executive director, quant…
Meeting the New Challenges of ESG Data and Tech
The ESG space is evolving rapidly, and for three years A-Team Group’s ESG Insight has been tracking its transformation. Now it’s time for us to evolve too. From next week, we will continue to provide our sustainability data and tech blogs, news and views through our core brands – Data Management Insight, RegTech Insight and TradingTech Insight. It’s a bold move…
The Evolution of Outsourcing Data Operations for ESG and Private Assets
Financial institutions are grappling with a substantially changed operating environment that’s placing novel pressures on their data management processes. As organisations navigate a more volatile global financial picture, many are tacking towards a multi-asset business model that demands new capabilities and expertise. They are also having to bolster their regulatory compliance capabilities, as new disclosure…