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Impact Cubed Unveils Fund ESG Assessment Tools
ESG data and investment aid provider Impact Cubed is now offering clients tools to measure and assess the impact of their fund holdings. The new addition to its automated platform also enables financial institutions to report their investments’ ESG performance to regulators. Additionally, pension funds, wealth managers and family offices will be able to keep…
Data Firms See Benefits From ISSB, GRI Coordination
Data vendors and managers have welcomed a recent tie-up between two major global ESG standards setters, saying the move would bring clarity to the opaque sustainability reporting space. Leading companies in the ESG data space said the memorandum of understanding signed between the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) would lead…
Many Firms Are Not Data-Ready for SFDR Level 2
Many financial institutions have yet to grasp the data implications of the European Union’s ESG reporting regulations, while others are scrambling to put in place processes to comply with the developing set of disclosure rules. That’s the observation of professional consultancy ACA Group, whose ESG Regulatory and Governance Lead Dani Williams said the company is…
ElysianNxt Wins A-Team Group Award for Most Innovative ESG Regulatory Reporting Solution
ElysianNxt, a provider of real-time solutions for finance and risk, has developed an ESG reporting platform designed to provide a 360-degree view of the impact of ESG on risk metrics, built using the latest technologies and techniques, and able to accelerate regulatory reporting to real time. The platform won the award for Most Innovative ESG…
Bloomberg Wins A-Team Group Award for Most Innovative ESG Data Solution
Bloomberg has won the award for Most Innovative ESG Data Solution in A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2022. The awards celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. Bloomberg’s ESG data solution was selected as a…
Climate Risk Data and Models: Why They’re Important and How Banks and Vendors are Handling Them
Financial institutions are using increasingly sophisticated data and analytical tools to identify and measure the risks that climate change poses to their investments and operations. Data providers including Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), Baringa and Bloomberg, as well as risk-management and controls specialist Acin, are offering their financial clients solutions that can help them track and…
SIX Moves into Aggregation Space with Sustainalytics Partnership
Swiss financial data expert SIX has made a significant step into the data aggregation space with the signing of a deal that will see it include Sustainalytics content in the company’s ESG offering. Company data from Sustainalytics, a Morningstar company, will be incorporated into SIX’s regulatory reporting service, particularly the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and Taxonomy….
TNFD Publishes Draft Framework for Risk Management, Disclosure
The first beta version of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures’ (TNFD) framework for risk management and reporting has been unveiled for consultation. The taskforce, an alliance that counts executives from Bank of America, BlackRock and Néstlé among its members, is dedicated to guiding corporates and financial institutions on making better decisions on activities that…
Sustainalytics Broadens its SFDR PAI Data Provisions to 13,000 Issuers
ESG research, ratings and analysis firm Sustainalytics has updated its data provisions covering key impact assessments necessary for European regulatory compliance. The company’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) Principle Adverse Impact (PAI) tool now cover 13,000 issuers. PAIs are a set of ESG impact tests against which financial institutions will be expected to gauge their…
Ukraine Conflict Puts New Light on ESG and Indexes
The war in Ukraine has shone a spotlight on ESG investing as nations, companies and financial institutions weigh their response to the conflict. ESG index and ratings setters are under pressure to redraw their exclusion frameworks and also adjust their coverage in light of a welter of sanctions placed on Russian companies and the organisations…