The environmental, social, and governance (ESG) Company Data is now available globally and covers 16,000 companies in 105 countries, according to Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., a leading provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure. ICE now offers high-quality, detailed data matched to over 1.4 million corporate equities and fixed income securities as a result of this development.
“By expanding our coverage of ESG Company Data in Asia-Pacific, we can better serve our clients with global portfolios and the regional asset managers who need high-quality data to support their ESG integration efforts,” said Elizabeth King, President of Sustainable Finance and Chief Regulatory Officer at ICE. “This expansion, combined with ICE’s unique security linkage capabilities, enables more ESG coverage of fixed income securities which has historically been a challenge for investors. With the growing demand for more disclosure from regulators and other stakeholders, there’s an increasing need for access to raw data to improve ESG reporting.”
The most extensively monitored regional and worldwide indices are included in ICE's ESG Company Data. With the addition of its Asia-Pacific coverage, ICE now offers information on all the components of the most popular regional benchmarks, such as the Nikkei 225, ASX300, Topix 1000, and Shenzhen 300. The ICE BofA Worldwide Corporate and High Yield Index (GI00), ICE's global fixed income benchmark, now includes more than 19,000 members.
More than 600,000 fixed income instruments are now included in the global corporate emissions and targets data that ICE added in January. This growth is the consequence of the incorporation of climatic information from Urgentem that ICE purchased in June 2022.
ICE's ESG Company Data is a component of the firm's expanding global portfolio of sustainable finance offerings, which also includes social impact data for the U.S. municipal bond market, the universe of mortgage-backed securities, sovereign, corporates, and real estate, as well as analytics of physical climate risk, transition risk, emissions, and targets