The latest developments in the ESG space.

Finastra
Finastra, the UK-based provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, is partnering with Alygne, which delivers ESG data to help asset managers make more informed ESG investments. 

A new connector integrates Alygne's data into Finastra’s Fusion Invest system.

“Making investments that coincide with corporate and customer values is front of mind for asset managers, but a lack of access to data and metrics makes this challenging,” Fabien Féron, senior product manager – Fusion Invest at Finastra, said. 

Fusion Invest is an integrated platform that covers the investment value chain, delivering portfolio insight and automated processes with a real-time Investment Book of Records and accounting book of records,

Alygne is a sustainability technology platform making ESG-related alternative data accessible and transparent on both private and public companies.

BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas Securities Services business has bolstered its digital offering to alternative fund managers and their investors with the release of two enhanced solutions, CapLink Investor and CapLink Private. 

The platform gives clients secure access to digitalised reporting, ESG insights and data analytics capabilities in a bid to enhance transparency and support investment-making decisions, the firm said in a statement.

CapLink Investor is a platform for fund managers, investors, and authorised contacts, offering information and insights across their fund holdings. With a user-friendly interface available in English and Simplified Chinese, CapLink Investor is suited for hedge fund and liquid alternative managers, single hedge funds, fund of hedge funds and their investors, the firm continued.

CapLink Private offers digital reporting through data visualisation, end-to-end workflow management, and risk and performance analytics capabilities for non-listed investments, the firm said. It is designed to enable private management companies, diversified asset managers and asset owners who manage private capital investment programmes to have an up-to-date view on their investments such as private equity, private debt and infrastructure in direct funds or fund of funds structuration.

Clients are able to monitor real-time data to unlock the full potential of their funds and portfolios, with advanced analytics providing transparency on investments and their performance. CapLink Investor and CapLink Private are available on Securities Services’ client portal NeoLink.

To meet clients’ needs, Securities Services co-created the offering from inception, leveraging the design thinking and lean startup methodologies of the bank’s Digital Innovation Lab and its partnership with AssetMetrix – a leading fintech specialising in non-listed investments.

Patrick Hayes, global head of alternative investors, Securities Services, BNP Paribas, said: “As markets evolve, we’re delighted to be rolling out our next-generation platform CapLink to alternative clients and their end investors.”