The IMPACTIN Team

5 key points of France’s pioneering position in impact finance

Last Thursday, March 25, 2021, was held an event that—hopefully—inaugurates the positioning of France as a pioneer in scaling Impact Finance. Entitled “Impact finance: fad or fundamental trend of sustainable finance?“, the event brought together around Bruno Le Maire—the French Minister of Economy, Finance and Recovery—leading players in this topic of major importance for theContinue reading “5 key points of France’s pioneering position in impact finance”

Les 5 points clés du positionnement de la France en pionnier de la finance à impact

Jeudi dernier, le 25 mars 2021, s’est tenu un évènement qui inaugure, espérons-le, le positionnement de la France comme pionnier du passage à l’échelle de la Finance à Impact. En effet, l’évènement « La finance à impact : effet de mode ou tendance de fond de la finance durable ? » regroupait à Bercy autourContinue reading “Les 5 points clés du positionnement de la France en pionnier de la finance à impact”

IMPACTIN ESG datasets available on Datarade.ai

We are very pleased to announce that our ESG datasets are now available on the Datarade.ai online data platform, our new data distribution channel! The following three datasets are already described: IMPACTIN® ESG Countries Impact Rating IMPACTIN® Territories ESG Impact Rating IMPACTIN® Countries and Territories Climate Change and Physical Risk Mitigation and Adaptation Rating MoreContinue reading “IMPACTIN ESG datasets available on Datarade.ai”

ESG Impact, through Real Estate management

The impact of Real Estate Building constructions and operations accounted in 2019 for 35% of the world’s energy consumption, and also accounted for nearly 38% of energy-related CO2 emissions, worldwide… For these reasons, the UN estimated that, in order to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2 degrees by 2030, the RealContinue reading “ESG Impact, through Real Estate management”

Taxonomy vs. Greenwashing: 14 key takeaways on EU webinars

Did you miss last week the 2-days of webinars on the EU Taxonomy for Green Finance organized by the European Commission the 24 and 26 of February ? Don’t let it bother you: we prepared 14 key takeaways! Webinars on EU Taxonomy: Agenda With the 800 printed pages of EU taxonomy, 1 kg. of pop-corn,Continue reading “Taxonomy vs. Greenwashing: 14 key takeaways on EU webinars”

ESG rebranding, ESG debranding, and the SFDR

Will we reach a turning point in ESG investments, when, within 24 days, on March, the 10th, most of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) obligations will become applicable? The current situation has indeed become quite paradoxical in the biggest market, Europe, representing 70% of the worldwide sustainable AuM : never before had ESG fundsContinue reading “ESG rebranding, ESG debranding, and the SFDR”

ECB stress tests on environmental and climate change risks: supervisory expectations, and enablers

A week ago, during a Sustainable Finance Deep Dive on ESG Data Reporting & Banking Compliance, organized by TechQuartier, we had the opportunity to present our views and ESG Impact solutions to a panel of major German banks and financial institutions. Beyond ESG Data, the workshop emphasis was on the incoming ECB Stress Tests relatedContinue reading “ECB stress tests on environmental and climate change risks: supervisory expectations, and enablers”

An ESG bubble on the rise?

The ESG finance has shown many signs of very strong market traction since the beginning of the year. And now, questions start to pop-up… “Is ESG overbought? Is it in bubble territory? “—these two relevant questions were asked as a reaction to the interesting publication of key investment themes by the Deutsche Bank Weath Management (centeredContinue reading “An ESG bubble on the rise?”

Is ESG Impact measurable?

A very recently pusbished HBR article, entitled “ESG Impact Is Hard to Measure — But It’s Not Impossible“, discusses the difficulty of measuring ESG impact. In the conclusions, it’s author, Jennifer Howard-Grenville, proposes three complementary concrete actions in order to go beyond the measure—which, today, might indeed be misleading due the aggregate confusion brought byContinue reading “Is ESG Impact measurable?”

IMPACTIN: a Top LegalTech in France, 2021

We had the pleasure of having been listed by Welp Magazine among 26 French Top LegalTech companies worth a follow in 2021. We thank Welp Magazine for the recognition ! We are used to say that we stand at the crossroad of several x-Tech: FinTech, RegTech (or LegalTech), InsurTech, and SustainTech: FinTech: we provide SustainableContinue reading “IMPACTIN: a Top LegalTech in France, 2021”