Sustainable Fitch Expands ESG Ratings Service to Over $100 Billion of Labelled Structured Bonds

Fitch Group’s sustainability-focused analytics business Sustainable Fitch announced today the launch of its ESGEnvironmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments. Ratings for global labelled structured bonds and covered bonds, expanding its dataset to over $100 billion in labelled structured bonds.

The announcement expands upon the company’s launch earlier this year of its ESGEnvironmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments. ratings product, ESGEnvironmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments. Ratings, Data & Analysis, adding a dataset of over $100 billion in labelled structured bonds to its initial set of $500 billion of labelled and KPI-linked instruments.

The product includes Entity Ratings, which evaluate entities’ positive and negative impact on the environment and society, based on underlying business activities, strategy, targets, policies and procedures, and governanceGovernance deals with a company’s leadership, executive pay, audits, internal controls, and shareholder rights.; Framework Ratings, evaluating use of proceeds, KPIs, and overall framework strength and governanceGovernance deals with a company’s leadership, executive pay, audits, internal controls, and shareholder rights., and; Instrument Ratings, which integrate the entity and framework-level scores, allowing for comparisons between instruments across sectors, geographies and labelling frameworks.

With today’s announcement, the company will provide ratings for covered bonds, and framework and instrument ratings for ABS bonds, with ratings across sectors including RMBS, CMBS, solar ABS, auto ABS, consumer ABS and utilities ABS.

Mike Simonton, Head of Sustainable Fitch, said:

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