Working with a number of global partners, Neural Alpha led the development and data engineering on the novel supply chain mapping behind the inaugural Plastic Waste Makers Index.

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.

Shares in the maker of Pringles surged nearly 20% last week after Mars announced it was considering taking over the $27bn US food giant Kellanova to create a $60bn total revenue behemoth.