Banks
Due diligence, KYC and client onboarding, reputational risk
Banks
RepRisk traces its roots to the investment and commercial banking industry. With its unsurpassed coverage of companies and infrastructure projects, including in emerging and frontier markets, RepRisk is the key tool for integrating ESG risk assessments across a bank’s business lines, from lending to IPOs and advisory to trade, export, and project finance. The world’s leading banks deploy RepRisk as part of client onboarding and Know-Your-Client (KYC) procedures, reputational risk management, client and transaction reviews, and compliance checks with internal policies and international standards such as the Equator Principles and the Principles for Responsible Banking.
Insurance providers
Due diligence, underwriting risk assessments, compliance
Insurance providers
RepRisk has more than 16 years of experience working with the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance firms and export credit agencies. As the only ESG data provider to systematically cover infrastructure projects, RepRisk has quickly become the go-to solution for integrating ESG risk assessments into underwriting procedures and for enabling compliance with international standards such as the UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance and the OECD Guidelines.
Asset managers
Risk overlay, portfolio monitoring, quantitative analysis, engagement
Asset managers
The world’s leading asset managers rely on RepRisk’s fast-moving risk signals and actionable insights throughout their investment processes, from pre-investment due diligence to portfolio construction and monitoring to company engagement. RepRisk’s industry-leading company coverage in both developed and emerging markets allows portfolio managers, traders, and research analysts to make more informed decisions across asset classes and build portfolios that are aligned with international standards such as the UN PRI, SASB, and the SDGs.
Do you have a quant focus?
Quant-oriented managers benefit from RepRisk’s rules-based methodology and daily time series of metrics and analytics starting in January 2007. RepRisk’s timeseries are not reverse-engineered but generated point-in-time using a consistent (unchanged) methodology and are therefore ideal to generate signals for stock or bond (credit change) price prediction.
Private equity and debt
Due diligence, portfolio monitoring, company engagement
Private equity and debt
As the only ESG data provider systematically covering private companies across developed and emerging markets, private equity and private debt firms increasingly turn to RepRisk for their ESG integration needs. RepRisk’s daily-updated dataset of over 205,000 private companies facilitates their pre-acquisition/pre-financing due diligence, post-transaction monitoring, and engagement with portfolio companies on ESG risks.
Hedge funds
Quantitative analysis, alpha testing, smart beta portfolio construction
Hedge funds
For hedge funds and quantitative asset managers, RepRisk offers the largest dataset of ESG risk incidents with daily time series of metrics and analytics from January 2007. Thanks to RepRisk’s rules-based methodology that ensures data integrity and quality, systematic managers can run extensive backtests to identify market trading signals and incorporate RepRisk’s data into their own proprietary trading algorithms, both for equity and bond trading.
Infrastructure investors
Due diligence, project portfolio screening, compliance
Infrastructure investors
As the only ESG data provider to systematically cover projects, RepRisk offers unique data for infrastructure investors looking to conduct due diligence on potential projects, monitor their project portfolio, and check compliance with international standards. RepRisk offers the largest dataset available on ESG risks related to infrastructure projects including mines, dams, pipelines; wind and solar farms; roads, bridges, and tunnels; factories and plantations; airports and seaports, and more.
Asset owners
Portfolio screening and monitoring, compliance, engagement
Asset owners
RepRisk is trusted by a wide range of leading asset owners, including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, and foundations and endowments. They turn to RepRisk for ESG integration and investment analysis across asset classes and strategies including negative and norms-based screening. RepRisk facilitates their engagement processes and helps them monitor any investment universe, portfolio, or fund – across any geography or sector.
Corporates
Third-party due diligence, vendor risk management, supplier monitoring
Corporates
RepRisk serves multinational companies by providing them with an efficient, systematic tool that facilitates the identification and monitoring of ESG risks across their business operations, including suppliers and partners. Leading companies also integrate RepRisk into their third-party human rights due diligence processes, to help ensure compliance to international standards such as the UN Global Compact and the UN Guiding Principles for Human Rights.
Governments and non-profits
Partner and donor due diligence, project and country risk assessments
Governments and non-profits
Governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) increasingly look to RepRisk to better understand the ESG and reputational risks related to their partners and donors, as well as the risks present in the countries and sectors where they deploy resources. A wide range of stakeholders, from policymakers and regulators to development agencies and philanthropists, rely on RepRisk to inform policy and regulatory decisions as well as field-building activities.
