K2 Integrity : K2 INTEGRITY ANNOUNCES EXPANSION OF ESG CERTIFICATION SOLUTION

Strategic Partnerships with Leading ESG Data Solutions Providers RepRisk, Novata and the Maples Group Will Enable K2 Integrity to Further Enhance its Ability to Analyze ESG Compliance NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- K2 Integrity, a leading compliance and risk advisory firm, today announced strategic partnerships with RepRisk, a leading ESG data science firm combining AI and machine learning together with human intelligence to identify ESG risks, and Novata, the leading ESG data management platform built for the private markets, to bolster K2 Integrity's new ESG fund certification solution. The partnerships complement K2 Integrity's existing partnership with the Maples Group, a leading provider of legal, fiduciary, fund, regulatory and compliance, and entity formation and management services with specialized ESG expertise and solutions. K2 Integrity and the Maples Group formed their partnership to launch a first-of-its-kind ESG certification earlier this year. The Maples Group will provide K2 Integrity with increased access to proprietary ESG data collection and management data, tools and expertise to streamline the certification's analysis processes. The work with each firm will also allow K2 Integrity to offer bespoke certification offerings that align with specific regional jurisdictions. "The need to validate and quantify ESG initiatives has never been greater," said Andrew Rabinowitz, Co-CEO of K2 Integrity. "We started our ESG practice and developed this new offering to meet increased demand for transparency from stakeholders, regulators and the investment community to address important issues such as diversity, equity and inclusion, sustainability, and strong governance, and combat accusations of greenwashing. These partnerships with RepRisk, Novata, the Maples Group and other leading ESG experts will allow us to further advance our ESG certification program and help managers verify to the marketplace, limited partners and regulators that their offerings are aligned with what is being advertised." K2 Integrity's new ESG certification solution builds on the firm's longstanding reputation for assisting clients with all forms of risk management and regulation compliance. Through rigorous, independent analyses of managers' and funds' disclosures and independent investigation research, the new certification program analyzes ESG products to certify they are compliant with local ESG regulations, including those from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the recent Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) in Europe, as well as deliver on their ESG targets as advertised. The solution also evaluates offerings to make sure proper ESG targets have been set ...Full story available on Benzinga.com