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Apex expands ESG services via new rating platform
13 August 2020 London
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

Apex Group has expanded its environmental, social and corporate governance ratings and advisory services through a new rating and scoring platform

Euronext reports year-on-year increase for post-trade revenue
30 July 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

Euronext saw a 64.5 percent year-on-year increase of post-trade revenue to €36.1 million, according to recently published Q2 2020 figures

Fund managers ‘unaware’ of upcoming ESG disclosure requirements
30 July 2020 London
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

One third of fund managers for infrastructure investment funds are unaware of the upcoming EU disclosure requirements, according to research by Linklaters

HSBC launches ESG reporting service
21 July 2020 London
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

HSBC has launched a new reporting service to provide an independent assessment of environmental, social and corporate governance issues within listed asset investments

AFME: Capital markets show support with record funding
14 July 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The report analysed the impact of COVID-19 on European capital markets during the four months since the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic

EC’s work on integrating sustainability considerations is ‘essential’, says EFAMA
08 July 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The EC’s work on integrating sustainability considerations is an “essential milestone” that will further encourage the availability of ESG products to European investors, according to EFAMA

BNY Mellon reveals new data and analytics solutions
25 June 2020 New York
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

BNY Mellon has launched three new data and analytics solutions aimed at improving investment management

PwC investigates COVID-19 effects on the asset servicing industry
25 June 2020 Luxembourg
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

During the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme market volatility created enormous early challenges, as trading volumes increased dramatically, market valuations plunged and soared wildly, and investors behaved irrationally, according to a new research paper b

Group presents NFRD recommendations amid COVID-19
23 June 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

A number of stakeholders have created an informal group on sustainable finance to support seven recommendations for the approaching Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD)

Major UK beneficial owner publishes ESG sector exclusion list
03 June 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

One of the UK’s largest pension schemes and long-term lender USS has for the first time committed to excluding and divesting in sectors it deems “financially unsuitable”

Deutsche Bank creates new APAC ESG role
14 May 2020 Singapore
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Kamran Khan has been selected to take up the newly created role as head of ESG for Asia Pacific

Cornerstone Capital selects Ultimus for fund administration
13 May 2020 Cincinnati
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Ultimus was chosen to administer the ESG mutual fund through its Capitol Series Trust