Our purpose – Opening up a world of opportunity – explains why we exist. We're here to use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open up new kinds of opportunity for our customers. We're bringing together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world – for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share.
We're mobilising finance to support our customers' transitions to net zero, accelerating innovation to help scale up climate change solutions and building global partnerships to ensure investment is swiftly channelled towards truly sustainable projects.
We are committed to aligning the financed emissions from our portfolio of customers to net zero by 2050 or sooner, in line with the Paris Agreement goals. To help get there, our target by 2030 is to provide between USD750 billion and USD1 trillion of finance and investment towards the transition.
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ING Americas is the brand name of ING's wholesale business in the Americas region, and a part of ING Group N.V. ("ING"), a global financial services company of Dutch origin with a network spanning 40 countries. ING has more than 53,000 employees helping its 38.6 million customers manage their money and meet financial goals. ING Americas offers a full array of wholesale financial products, such as commercial lending, corporate finance and a full range of financial markets, products and services.
Sustainability forms an integral part of ING's strategy, evidenced by ING's leading position in sector benchmarks by Sustainalytics and MSCI and our 'A-list' rating by CDP. ING Group shares are included in major sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) index products of leading providers STOXX, Morningstar and FTSE Russell. In January 2021, ING received an ESG Evaluation score of 83 ("Strong") from S&P Global Ratings. For more information please visit https://www.ing.com/
Sustainable Fitch provides insights, tools and data designed exclusively to help bring clarity to the ESG financial community. To best serve our clients and partners, Fitch realized that it would be necessary to build a new product suite of objective ESG data and analysis, focusing on consistency, comparability, coverage and granularity. Powered by the human insight that has differentiated Fitch for over 100 years, Sustainable Fitch brings experience and heritage to help the financial community make smarter decisions, using the best ESG information available.
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As the wholesale arm of TD Bank Group (TD), TD Securities offers a full suite of capital markets products and services to our corporate, government, and institutional clients around the world. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2010, TD became the first carbon neutral North American bank and, in 2020, committed to a Climate Action Plan, including a net-zero emissions target by 2050, the first from a major Canadian bank. TD plays an integral role in the development of the sustainable capital markets through underwriting, investing, and issuing, as well as advisory services through the Sustainable Finance & Corporate Transitions group.
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ISS Corporate Solutions (ICS) provides market-leading expertise that empowers companies to meet the growing demands of incorporating governance and sustainability principles across the enterprise. ICS helps companies design and manage their ESG programs to align with company goals, reduce risk, and manage the needs of diverse stakeholders by delivering expert advisory, data, and software solutions. ICS' Second Party Opinion ("SPO") services provide issuers with an independent assessment of their Green, Social and Sustainability-linked financing frameworks.
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.
To learn more, please visit www.msci.com.