Delivering a greener future through better data with Capco

Data plays a key role when it comes to decisions such as long-term investments, the allocation of funds, granting a loan or developing a new product - even more so in the age of ESG and sustainability. Banks, asset managers and insurance companies must increasingly commit to a broad range of analyses, reporting, disclosures and publications as they engage with the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), or the EU Taxonomy for sustainable finance.

This will require information to be surfaced and aggregated in a much more detailed and comprehensive fashion than ever before. Too often, however, the necessary data - whether relating to assets that are traded or financed, to companies within supply chains, or to firms' own clients - is incomplete, contradictory or even non-existent.

The imperative to source, process and organize high quality data is accordingly growing for companies and financial institutions alike. This shift will only become ever more important as banks, asset managers and insurance companies seek to ensure their green credentials can be effectively validated and communicated.

To discuss this challenge, we have gathered a panel of leading global industry experts:

• Paul Dickinson, Founder Chair, CDP, UK
• Anita George, Executive Vice President at Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), India
• Claudia Morrow, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Vistra Corp., USA
• Markus Mueller, Managing Director, Global Head of Chief Investment Office, Deutsche Bank, Germany

The discussion will be led by Simmons Partner Dr. Harald Glander and Capco Partner Dr. Olaf Clemens and will be followed by an interactive audience Q&A session.

Topics for discussion will include:

• The case for data in driving ESG outcomes - both for public commitments and regulatory demands
• The role and importance of data from different perspectives - insights from an energy company to banks and long-term investors
• How reasonable will regulators be given current realities around data gaps and the alignment pragmatically to regulatory targets?
• How are financial services market participants reacting and what strategies are we seeing for sourcing data?
• What is the anticipation for the long term outcomes from this new 'gold rush' of data?

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