Environmental ratings are becoming big business as companies seek proof of sustainable and socially beneficial conduct, both ...

On November 19, 2024, the EU Council adopted a new regulation on ESG ratings, which “aim[s] at making rating activities in the EU more consistent, transparent, and comparable in order to boost ...

ESAF Small Finance Bank achieves a notable ESG rating of 75.4, reflecting its commitment to sustainability and social ...

Some 31,000 funds are about to have their ESG scores lowered at MSCI Inc., as the firm’s ratings unit works through a major overhaul of its methodology in response to feedback from market participants ...

Mercer International Inc. has received an updated ESG Risk Rating of 16.8 from Sustainalytics, reflecting improvement from its previous score of 17.4 in 2024. This rating places the company in the low ...

With environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles garnering increased attention in corporate circles in recent years, there has been an accompanying rise in demand for analytical products ...

Synthetic exchange-traded funds find themselves at the heart of the latest controversy to hit ESG ratings. Synthetic ETFs use swaps to offer investors exposure to indexes such as the S&P 500. Nine of ...

MSCI’s pending downgrades to the ESG ratings on thousands of funds is the latest quirk highlighting the murkiness of sustainable investing — but they're also part of a global trend toward tighter ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KBRA releases an update to its February 2023 message from company CEO Jim Nadler, following recent market developments and a move by some credit rating agencies (CRA) away ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. This pioneering integration marks the first utilisation of GPT to advance ...

The spark came from Richard Thaler (Nudge) and Daniel Kahneman (Thinking, Fast and Slow), but the roots run deeper. In 1978, Herbert Simon won the first Nobel Prize for behavioral economics. Thaler ...