Labelled Debt: Making Sense of a Growing and Complex Landscape
However, sustainability and climate datasets remain inherently less standardized than traditional financial data, making strong data acquisition, transformation, and validation processes essential. Our new Sustainable Finance Solutions webinar series will give asset managers, banks, asset owners, and corporations a behind-the-scenes look at Bloomberg’s approach to high-quality, reliable sustainability data—from core corporate sustainability reporting to complex datasets like biodiversity and physical climate risk assessment.
In this session, we will explore:
- The nuances of reviewing, collecting, and standardizing issuance data to ensure a high quality dataset
- Meeting evolving requirements for labelling instruments
- Understanding Bloomberg's data collection and labelling methodology
- Creating a decision-useful dataset from Impact and Allocation reports
- The roadmap ahead
Speakers
Marina Ermachenkova
Sustainable Finance Enterprise Data Sales
Bloomberg
Marina is a member of the Sustainable Finance team within Bloomberg's Enterprise Data Sales department. Since joining Bloomberg in 2009, she has gained extensive experience in client workflows across both terminal and enterprise data businesses, with a focus on sustainability and climate data in recent years. Prior to this, Marina specialized in data management solutions and reference datasets. She has worked in both Bloomberg's London and New York offices and holds a Masters in Finance from London Business School.
Joshua Kendall
Head of Sustainable Fixed Income
Bloomberg
Joshua Kendall is Head of Sustainable Fixed Income at Bloomberg, developing sustainable investment solutions for the fixed income market. Joshua is the author and co-editor of the book Responsible Investment in Fixed Income, published by Routledge in 2022. Previously, Joshua was Head of Responsible Investment Research and Stewardship at Insight Investment, a UK-headquartered investment manager and one of the world’s foremost fixed income investment managers. In this role, he applied responsible investment themes into fixed income investing, stewardship activities and portfolio management, and led the development of various innovative and industry leading ESG processes, covering climate change, impact investing, corporate debt, structured finance, and sovereign debt. Joshua has more than twelve years’ responsible investment experience, having held roles at MSCI, GMI Ratings and the Principles for Responsible Investment. He has written extensively on responsible investment and ESG issues, is a contributor to many industry initiatives, and is regularly interviewed by the trade and business press on sustainable investment issues. He holds an MSc from the University of London, a BA (Hons) from the University of Manchester and is completing the EMBA programme at Henley Business School. He also holds the Investment Management Certificate from the CFA Society of the UK and helped to develop its ESG Certificate.
Dan Covello
Senior Fixed Income Data Specialist
Bloomberg
Dan Covello is a Data Specialist within Bloomberg's Sustainable Fixed Income (SFI) team managing the procurement, review, and distribution of SFI data. Over 22 years, Dan has implemented technology to streamline Bloomberg's acquisition and quality control processes. As such, he coordinates efforts between Product Management and Engineering to efficiently deliver new products and services while also ensuring data integrity. Prior to joining the SFI team in July of 2022, Dan was a senior member of the Client Data Management (CDM) team with a focus on New Issues (Credit), the foundation of Bloomberg's New Issue Monitor, New Issue Pipeline, and League tables. Dan graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in Economics and a minor in Sociology.
Karen Brenseke
Sustainable Finance Market Specialist
Bloomberg
Karen Brenseke is an ESG Market Specialist at Bloomberg. She focuses on helping financial market participants navigate the ever-changing landscape of sustainable finance, impacts of global regulations and frameworks, and integration of ESG information into decision-making and risk management processes. Prior to her role as an ESG Market Specialist, Karen specialized in building enterprise data products for ESG regulations including the European Union (EU) Taxonomy, Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). She has led various consultation efforts with regulators and advisory groups to enhance the clarity, usability, and interoperability of global regulations.