Sustainable bonds, one of the fastest growing segments of the debt capital market, are used globally as a financing source for a wide range of issuers, including green renewable energy companies, sovereigns and supranationals, and brown corporate issuers seeking to transition some or all of their business operations.

Trase Finance uses supply chain modelling to allocate annual commodity-specific deforestation risk in hectares to investors based on their total equity ownership in commodity traders exposed to deforestation via investing subsidiaries and fund shareholdings. For the first time this allows for a quantifiable and robust way to rank asset managers according to their exposure to deforestation risk.

In this webinar, James presented some of Neural Alpha's work using Graph Databases and other connected data technologies to analyse ESG risks such as deforestation.