MSCI has announced a "strategic alliance" with Microsoft, with an aim to "accelerate innovation among the global investment industry".
The partnership will begin with a focus on migrating MSCI's existing products, data and services onto Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, starting with its index and analytics solutions, followed by ESG products and ratings, real estate data and solutions, and risk analytics platform Beon. MSCI calls on asset managers to incorporate ESG into investment processes MSCI and Microsoft will also explore "collaboration opportunities" to innovate climate risk and ESG solutions, utilising the former's ESG and climate solutions capabilities and the latter's Azure and Power platform. The colla...
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