As a Global Financial Market infrastructure, we allow worldwide investors to contribute to Financial Markets through market connections and diversified product offerings. Those in need of sustainable financing capabilities have the opportunity to leverage our ecosystem to attract worldwide investors.
Sustainable finance
Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) play a critical role in facilitating the efficient operation of global capital markets and supporting the stability of the financial system. Cross-border FMIs, like Euroclear Bank, offer capabilities that enable and facilitate the connection of issuers and investors across borders through, for example, cross-border payments, settlements and collateral movements.
Euroclear Bank has a central position in the global financial ecosystem, holding key relationships with financial market participants – from issuers to asset managers and exchanges, central counterparties, listing agents and data providers. An overwhelming majority of financial market participants, including 100 central banks are members of Euroclear’s systems. Additionally, Euroclear has a presence across the developed, emerging and frontier markets. This neutral, central position allows Euroclear to facilitate engagement across market participants, identify opportunities for sustainable growth and to bridge any communication gaps that may exist. Currently we already hold around one trillion euros worth of green, social, sustainable and sustainability-linked bonds (GSSS) in Euroclear Bank.
Our investment in Greenomy, in January 2022, is a strong signal of our commitment to ESG data integrity. The first step toward a net-zero future is through the communication of reliable and comparable data.
Greenomy is an AI-powered ESG reporting platform. It helps companies measure, disclose, and enhance their sustainability performance in line with EU sustainable finance regulations, including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the EU Taxonomy. Greenomy simplifies the reporting process, making it easier for organizations to comply with evolving ESG standards and drive strategic changes.
Thanks to its service solutions Greenomy assists companies in accelerating to the Green transition through ESG transparency.
In 2022, we made a strategic investment in Impact Cubed, which provides sustainable analytics and investment solutions, enabling asset managers and investment decision makers to assess ESG impact on their investments. The Impact Cubed approach is differentiated via its comprehensive data coverage of all global public listed securities.
Equally, it offers digital reporting tools that can simplify clients’ regulatory needs and reporting requirements. Impact Cubed’s digital solutions help transform the sustainability reports and communications that issuers release into tangible visual representations.
The Impact Cubed tool provides consistent analysis of data that objectively describes what ESG data points, such as UN SDG alignments, reveal about an issuer’s sustainability strengths or weaknesses versus a benchmark.
The partnership will enable Euroclear to integrate, whenever it is possible and relevant, the ESG data into the existing Euroclear range of products and services.
