The world’s best bank for ESG data and technology: Societe Generale

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The world’s best bank for ESG data and technology: Societe Generale

It is not enough to have the data, banks also need to bring intelligence and financial analysis to bear in sustainable finance to keep progressing.

The rapid growth in the number of environmental, social and governance-data providers is good news, according to Yannick Ouaknine, head of sustainability research at Societe Generale’s Bernstein Group. This is mostly because the investment being made by serious data providers is a sign that the shift to embedding these metrics is becoming universally accepted.

However, a greater plurality in third-party providers can create more work for ESG businesses at banks. SocGen needed to put in 1,800 hours of work on a recent project that analysed different data sets provided by vendors around companies’ Scope 1,2 and 3 emissions.

As well as identifying which providers are best for various countries and industries, the project helped clarify the need for banks such as SocGen to add in its own intelligence to models that supposedly already use artificial intelligence for carbon reporting.

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