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ESG Data and Ratings Code of Conduct Working Group (DRWG) - Final Code of Conduct Launch

31 January 2024
07:30am - 10:45am
London Stock Exchange, 10 Paternoster Square, EC4M 7LS

Join us on 31st January 2024 at the London Stock Exchange for an in-person Market Open and morning event to celebrate the launch of the Code of Conduct for ESG Ratings and Data Products Providers, hosted by LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group). 

This is an invitation-only in person event, and will bring together stakeholders to discuss how the Code of Conduct can help to enhance consistency, transparency, and accountability in the financial services industry to ensure that the market is able to have confidence in the integrity of ESG Ratings and Data products through enhanced systems, processes and controls. Speakers include Tajinder Singh, Deputy Secretary General of IOSCO and Sacha Sadan, Director for ESG, FCA. 

Registration starts at 7.30am for the Market Open ceremony at 8.00am prompt, and the speaker agenda begins at 8.45am until 10.45am. 

Further information about the Code of Conduct and how to sign up to it can be found on the International Capital Market Association’s (ICMA) website.  

A drinks reception hosted by the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) will also take place at the London Stock Exchange from 4:30pm-7:15pm - learn more and register here.

Agenda

07:30 Guest arrival and registration 

08:00 Market Open ceremony

08:45 Welcome, Cornelia Andersson, Group Leader, Sustainable Finance and Investment, Data & Analytics, LSEG 

08:50 Keynote presentation: Tajinder Singh, Deputy Secretary General of IOSCO 

09:00 Outline of the Code of Conduct: 

  • Rob Marshall, Head of Sustainable Investing, M&G (until September 2023) & Steering Committee, DRWG
  • Nick Bonsall, Partner Financial Regulation Group, Slaughter and May & Steering Committee, DRWG
  • Corinna Williams, DRWG Secretariat and Senior Regulatory Policy Adviser, City of London Corporation  

09:20 Panel discussion: Code in Practice 

  • Chair: Nick Miller, Managing Director, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Moody’s & Steering Committee, DRWG
  • Patricia Torres, Head of Sustainable Finance Solutions, Bloomberg
  • Neil Acres, Global Head of Government & Regulatory Affairs, MSCI 
  • Sindhu Krishna, Head of Sustainable Investment, Phoenix Group 
  • Andreas Giannopolous, Director, Sustainability & ESG, Barclays

10:00 Panel discussion: International Context

  • Chair: David Harris, Head of Sustainable Finance Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships, LSEG, & Steering Committee, DRWG
  • Sacha Sadan, Director of ESG, FCA
  • David Henry Doyle, Vice President, Head of Government Affairs and Public Policy, EMEA, S&P Global
  • Hideki Takada, Director for Strategic Development, Japan Financial Services Agency (JFSA)
  • Jeanne Stampe, Specialist Leader (Sustainable Finance Disclosures), Monetary Authority of Singapore

10:40 Next steps: Simone Utermarck, Senior Director, Sustainable Finance, ICMA
(ICMA was part of the DRWG Secretariat and now owns the Code)

10:45 Event close
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