Partnership of JSE with Risk Insights to improve their ESG reporting with AI-driven risk analytics for better decision-making and sustainable capital investment.

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has collaborated with Risk Insights to ramp up environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting for JSE-listed businesses and asset managers. The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered data and engine ratings is supposed to provide stronger data-driven insight into ESG performances to assist investors and securities issuers understand the environmental impact while driving sustainable investment practices.

Being the largest stock exchange in Africa, the JSE shows the way in regulatory and sustainability disclosures for firms operating in South Africa. The initiative includes features such as ESG ratings, disclosures, and advanced analytics to aid in enabling informed decisions for investors, analysts, and stakeholders alike.

Risk Insights, an ESG-centric consultancy that married AI and ESG analytics into service for purposes such as ESG GPS and A-Cubed, brought the tools to the table. The former provides detailed ESG data for listed and unlisted companies across Africa.

“What shows our commitment to this offering in support of sustainable investment practices is that it takes the argument further by giving clients a better ability to assess ESG factors as they realistically occur in their investment decisions while also bringing together flow of ESG for investment decisions improvement," explained Mark Randall, director of Information Services with the JSE.

This partnership will continue with the ongoing path toward making of data a digital market by the JSE, as well as providing unobstructed access to all relevant metrics about sustainability, as well as driving impact investment towards a responsible and outcome-focused path.