How financial institutions are trying to make sense of ESG data

Real-time reputational risk monitoring now commonplace

ESG has long been a vital issue for asset managers, but the Covid-19 pandemic has hugely increased the focus on the health and sustainability of our planet, together with pressing questions of social equality and cohesion.

The investor sentiment shift towards a conscientious society, a greener planet and improved governance practices is driving all financial institutions, whether big or small, traditional or fintech, to be fully in control of the ESG standings of their investment and underwriting positions, and embed ESG considerations into their reporting and risk management frameworks.  At the start of 2021, we saw a high-profile event where many professional hedge fund managers lost out due to retail investors purposefully making investments to push up stock prices; this activity was coordinated via soc...