DLA Piper partners with Datamaran to integrate ESG due diligence

Powered by patented technology, Datamaran is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that provides a data-driven process for identifying and monitoring external ESG risks and opportunities. Datamaran enables evidence-based insights and a near real-time assessment of material ESG risks that can be tailored to a client’s sector, geography or stakeholder context. 

Combined with DLA Piper’s extensive ESG subject matter experience and multi-jurisdictional and cross-sector expertise, this solution offers clients a unique opportunity to embed ESG due diligence and risk management across corporate, financing and transactional activities.

Regulators want firms to own up to climate risks

America's main financial regulator is taking an interest in climate change—and wants everyone to know. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has created a task-force to examine environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, appointed a climate tsar and said it will “enhance its focus” on climate-related disclosures for listed firms. It looks poised to introduce, among other things, rules forcing firms to reveal how climate change or efforts to fight it may affect their business. Since September regulators in Britain, New Zealand and Switzerland have said they plan to make such climate-related disclosures mandatory. So, too, have stock exchanges in Hong Kong, London and South Korea. The EU may follow suit.

‘ESG tech’ is helping companies achieve data-driven sustainability reporting

Redefining materiality (again) to transform the role of business in society

ACCA and Datamaran agree MOU

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed between ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and Datamaran, the only software analytics platform in the world that identifies and monitors external risks, including Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG).

The purpose of the agreement will be to:

• work together on key projects including research reports, policy activities and events
• share joint insights with ACCA members, future members and other ACCA stakeholders
• use Datamaran’s patented technology and data-driven insights to inform relevant online learning activities for ACCA members and future members to support their training and development.

Report: Companies Should Examine Whether Their Financial Disclosures Adequately Acknowledge Systemic Risks

Datamaran is the first “ESG-tech” company in the world to secure a patent on unstructured data analysis

New research muddles case to ESG outperformance

The EU and other European institutions have issued or updated 343 requirements and recommendations focused on climate change risks and management since 2011, data from Datamaran show, compared with only 53 initiatives in the US.

ESG data – mind the gaps

Datamaran's approach avoids the problems faced by other ESG data providers, such as boundary definition, gaps in indicators and consistency of reporting.

“For instance, we assess whether a company is reporting on the risks posed to it by climate change or whether it is adequately addressing biodiversity in its services,” Ian van der Vlugt, VP of Product & Research at Datamaran, says.

He adds that this approach can help to filter out meaningless or misleading corporate verbiage.

The US is slipping behind Europe in Corporate Diversity

US boardrooms fail to reflect country’s demographics

Investors watch for double standards on Black Lives Matter

"The US is lagging behind the rest of the world on corporate diversity and inclusion disclosure based on a new analysis of financial reporting, by risk analytics company Datamaran. The company used a natural language processing algorithm to gauge how companies are prioritising the issue."

Second European lab project Task Force appointed

The Steering Group of the European Corporate Reporting Lab @EFRAG (European Lab) has appointed the members of the Project Task Force for the project on reporting of non-financial risks and opportunities and linkage to the business model. The appointed members have expertise on reporting of non-financial information as preparers of different sizes in a number of sectors, financial institutions (banks and insurers), users (institutional investors and rating agencies), the accountancy profession, not-for-profit organisations with a role in standard setting and good practice identification for corporate reporting, academia and other stakeholders.

The end of the "Greta's effect": less environment and more health in company financial disclosure

COVID-19: Datamaran redeploys AI engine to spot corporate activities and regulatory change

Datamaran - the only digital solution for external risk management  - releases an update on EU and US companies' disclosure on the COVID-19 outbreak. This is part of a monitoring application that uses AI technology to capture decision-useful insights from corporate filings, regulatory developments and news media worldwide.

ACCA forges the path for social and environmental value creation and calls for collective action by business, finance professionals and society

In a new report Social and environmental value creation ACCA calls for more concerted action to deal with the challenges of social and environmental value creation. The report has been developed with CFA Institute and is supported with insights from Datamaran.

The report examines the role of business in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues which are under increasing focus from investors and society more widely. It assesses the current state of corporate disclosures on key social and environmental issues in different regions around the world and outlines five disclosure and decision-making approaches that can support business to create inclusive and sustainable value for society over the long-term.

Financial services catching up on climate change disclosure

Boeing, Nissan and Volkswagen could have seen it coming

ERM’s Data-driven Materiality Assessment powered by Datamaran

Companies now have access to a comprehensive, data-driven materiality analysis process with ongoing analytics and advisory services, thanks to an exciting global partnership that brings together Datamaran’s proprietary AI technology and ERM’s advisory services in an exclusive ESG materiality offering.

Business resilience is high on the list of challenging issues for companies. In their new global partnership, Datamaran – a unique software platform for identifying and monitoring material ESG topics and ERM – a leading global provider of sustainability advisory services – will provide the most powerful materiality analysis on the market. This will give companies the most real-time and comprehensive understanding of their material ESG topics, leading to a more effective data-driven corporate strategy and, ultimately, business success.

Datamaran Joins Over 50 Banks in Endorsing the UNEP FI Principles For Responsible Banking

Datamaran launches a user certification program

The purpose of the program is to empower Datamaran customers to achieve high proficiency in using and applying Datamaran 4 to various internal use cases. The ultimate goal is to help customers to take a full ownership of benchmarking, materiality analysis, and issues monitoring processes in-house.

A six-week program that comes complimentary to all customers helps users achieve proficiency at their own pace. Followed by an exam, the program provides with a collection of interactive lectures, audio-visual materials, coursework, as well as custom analysis template.

Regulators are taking a tougher stance on ESG disclosure a new study reveals

Data analytic tools help financial institutions understand how sustainability drives firms’ market value

Company culture has traditionally has been hard for investors to systematically assess. Culture Capital takes a data-driven approach to identifying companies with strong culture and investing in them.

The company uses ESG data to assess culture. It relies on Datamaran, a platform that analyzes ESG sources such as corporate reports and online news. Datamaran screens these sources for references to relevant cultural elements such as transparency, employee retention, and community engagement.

Marjella Alma joins ACCA’s Global Forum for Sustainability

Datamaran’s external risk management patents have been published

Datamaran - the global leader in Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for external risk management - has announced today that three of its patent applications have been published with their approval pending. Through its technology, Datamaran enables a systematic and thorough monitoring and analysis of Environmental Social Governance (ESG) risks.

The three patents Datamaran has applied for in 2016 have now been published and are available on the World Intellectual Property Organisation website - the United Nations’ agency that oversees and promotes the protection of intellectual property. The patents support the company software’s backbone as they cover its business intelligence, regulatory and data processing methods and systems. As a result of years of collaboration between the
leading ESG and risk management experts as well as data scientists and technology professionals, these inventions protect Datamaran’s proprietary technology.

Datamaran names former Moleskine executive Marco Ariello Chairman of the Board

Marco Ariello, previously Chair of the iconic notebook company Moleskine, was named Chairman of Datamaran Ltd., a London-based technology business that provides unique software solutions for non-financial risk management.

Marco Ariello’s appointment comes after Datamaran, which also has offices in Spain and the US, closed its Series-A financing round and is focusing on large-scale distribution of its AI platform. Marco has a proven track record in building globally recognized brands and scaling businesses, as well as a wealth of experience in private equity.

Datamaran closes successful $4.5 million Series A investment round

Datamaran, a provider of cutting-edge solutions for non-financial risk management, recently closed its Series A investment round. The funds raised will be invested to help accelerate growth in North America and Europe. Datamaran will focus on fully automated applications; taking manual services and applying AI to build faster and better applications. Datamaran aims to monetize the opportunities that surround data usage by 3rd parties.

“A shift has happened. New business issues like climate risk and diversity are critical, they are increasingly regulated and an essential part of comprehensive business risk management. Datamaran helps business meet this need. We are thrilled to close this successful Series A fundraise through the valued support of Keystone, West Hill, and our long-standing investor base. The financing enables us to boost our growth, innovate and broaden our Saas product suite" – CEO & Co-founder of Datamaran, Marjella Lecourt-Alma

Welcome to Datamaran 4: The Materiality Revolution is Here

Datamaran 4 makes possible the first ever fully automated materiality analysis. 

Datamaran is a powerful solution for tracking Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues critical to a business. Datamaran fully automates previously manual processes undertaken by sustainability professionals for benchmarking, materiality analysis and ESG risk identification saving time, money and delivering better insights.

Materiality analysis is a process used in the majority of companies, in which the non-financial issues that are most significant for a company in terms of risks and opportunities are identified, making them critical elements for decision making, reporting and strategy setting.

Need business intelligence on sustainability issues? Big data analytics have solutions to guide your strategy

Data & Technology - Mitigating Emerging Issues & Delivering Value Creation

Andrew Bird, the MD of Crowe Horwath Risk Consulting UK and Marjella Alma, the CEO of Datamaran explain Emerging Issues and how a dramatic business response and game changing technology solution can create value.

Marjella Alma - Keynote

The challenge for companies is to convey non-financial data as if they were financial with the aim of building trust and brand reputation among stakeholders. Learn how leading companies are quantifying and reporting their environmental and social economics.

Datamaran launched new version of its AI-powered platform to monitor ESG risks and opportunities

On October 16, Datamaran launched the third version of its platform, which leverages real-time big data to identify and monitor ESG risks and derive decision-useful insights from public sources.

Now, more than ever, companies need to understand and manage new risks in order to remain resilient. Recent regulatory developments, such as the Financial Stability Board’s Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, literally catapult the topic of climate change onto the desks of CFOs, risk officers and boards.

How will you ensure that your business is still around by 2020?

Datamaran is a women-led data analytics firm, co-founded by Marjella Alma, former Director at GRI. Their solution - a data analytics platform called  Datamaran - is new, disruptive and was built with the market.

It offers narrative screening of corporate filings, regulations and (social) media sources,  helping investors and corporates monitor emerging regulatory, competitive, and reputational risks with a focus on ESG issues. 

"Datamaran is... probably the most efficient tool to achieve an in-depth understanding of corporate reporting ever built. The regulatory radar in particular has the potential to disrupt classical financial analysis across many sectors and asset classes.”

Data analytic technology: the new game changer

Marjella Alma is founder and CEO of eRevalue Ltd., a women-led technology company with offices in London and NYC. eRevalue offers Datamaran™, an emerging issues management system that delivers real-time analytics on new forms of regulatory, reputational and competitive risk and opportunity. A former Director of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) – providers of the world’s leading standard for non-financial reporting – Marjella has had a front row seat in the corporate strategy space for over eight years, working directly with Fortune 500 companies across the globe. She knows that technology will be a game changer in business innovation.