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  • Chaucer and Moody's announce ESG scorecard collaboration

    14 February 2022

    Chaucer has announced it will collaborate with data analytics firm Moody's to create ESG scorecards which it claims would be the first of their kind in the (re)insurance sector.

  • Japan's FSA plans principles to address 'nightmare' of investor ESG data requests

    11 February 2022

    Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) plans to launch a set of principles for ESG ratings and data providers this summer...

  • Impact-Weighted Accounts set for overhaul as it eyes international stage

    10 February 2022

    The Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative is preparing to overhaul its strategy, Michael Hurley writes

  • Glass Lewis includes ESG profiles in its proxy papers

    09 February 2022

    Glass Lewis has launched ESG profiles which provide data and 'ESG scores' to its 'proxy paper' research documents, which are used to inform proxy voting.

  • Corporate lobby 'likely' to challenge EU ESG ratings regulation

    09 February 2022

    Corporate lobbyists' apparent success in influencing EU taxonomy negotiations could now see their attention turn to challenging potential regulation of ESG ratings, an expert has warned.

  • Japan's FSA forms ESG ratings and data committee

    09 February 2022

    Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has formed a subcommittee to discuss ESG ratings and data providers.

  • Climate stress testing: Getting it right from the start

    07 February 2022

    Regulators' approaches to climate stress test data leave a lot to be desired, argue Ryan Vaughn and Meghan Purdy

  • Fewer than one in 10 financial institutions conduct scenario analysis, study finds

    07 February 2022

    Only about 8% of financial institutions conduct scenario analysis to assess climate and broader environmental risks, a study has found.

  • Entelligent raises $6m for climate risk platform

    04 February 2022

    US data firm Entelligent has announced the first close of its Series A funding of its climate risk platform for financial institutions at almost $5.7 million, according to US government records.

  • Dutch MEP decries privatisation of ESG data important to insurers

    04 February 2022

    Kieler Rück CEO calls European Single Access Point a "game changer"