A reblog of a linkedin post analysing Red Electrica, the Spanish national grid operator, and their green policies, business continuity plans and energy mix.

As geopolitical tensions rise and Europe faces renewed threats to its democratic values, ESG investors are being urged to rethink their stance on defence stocks. In our latest white paper, Time for ESG Investors to Embrace European Defence Companies?, Neural Alpha CEO James Phare challenges long-held assumptions and exclusionary practices within sustainable investing.

The importance (or not) of board independence for performance. And using Responsible Capital Disclosure Assistant for ESG-enhanced smart beta investing approaches

Recently we decided to take a brief look at Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) sustainability disclosures using our AI platform Responsible Capital. Tesla are renowned under the leadership of Elon Musk for being unafraid to be different and not follow the crowd and so we wanted to see how well our AI could perform extracting key metrics from PDF format sustainability reports for quantitative comparisons over a period of a few years.

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.

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.

Neural Alpha HQ was a flurry of activity on Tuesday 18th February as we hosted our first ever breakfast event - a networking morning with two presentations and roundtable discussion. the event was a great success so we'll be running similar events on other topics in the near future.

In a wide ranging interview with ESG Investor recently our CEO James Phare shared his thoughts about the challenges, opportunities and costs & opportunity costs of AI adoption. James covered many points including model choice, use cases, architectural choices and lessons from bespoke consultancy projects and our own Responsible Capital AI ESG product.

We are thrilled to announce we have joined the World Benchmarking Alliance to support their fantastic work constructing open access benchmarks and enabling positive change for corporates and financial institutions through best-in-class data and analysis.

Nawar Alsaadi, CEO and Founder of Kanata Advisors, has joined Neural Alpha in an advisory capacity.

Technological innovations will be key to ensuring 'early adopter' TNFD reporting companies provide useful nature-related information.

Neural Alpha is delighted to announce that it has joined companies such as Aviva, TSB and Schroders Personal Wealth, in signing up to the Good Business Charter, an accreditation that raises the bar on business practices for employees, tax, the environment, customers and suppliers.

Join us for an exciting webinar where we explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and human rights compliance.

In this webinar, Ben Levett discusses how to apply deforestation due diligence guidance and how Trase Finance data products can power commodity trader assessments.

In this webinar hosted by ISKO, Neural Alpha founder James Phare and ESG Researcher Dan Burke-Ward discuss the role of taxonomies in sustainable finance and how the Neural Alpha product suite centralises taxonomies for interoperability and reporting and the connection of various data types.

In this webinar, Ben Levett discusses why location-specific analysis is so important for proper deforestation due diligence and outlines how Trase Finance can help conduct TNFD LEAP-FI style assessments of commodity traders.

As part of UKSIF's Good Money Week, Planet Tracker and Trase Finance come together to explore what actions investors and lenders can take to mitigate the risk of financing deforestation, with the case study of the Gran Chaco.

In this webinar Neural Alpha CEO James Phare joined partners OpenCorporates to discuss the importance of open company data in due diligence and other requirements.

Neural Alpha is working with the Stockholm Environment Institute to build out a knowledge-graph-based connectivity tool that leverages its expertise in large language models (LLMs) and data engineering to add value to heterogeneous data sets of research and other scholarly articles.

Showcasing our ability to deliver sophisticated backend infrastructures, Neural Alpha delivered the database, ETLs and API powering Lucida’s advanced supply chain and deforestation analysis.

Utilising our expertise in knowledge graphs, supply chains and sustainability, Neural Alpha was the obvious choice to help Refinitiv explore proof of concept applications of their Big Open Linked Data (BOLD) platform to ESG use-cases

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.

Employing our strong data engineering and data integration capabilities, Neural Alpha helped to deliver the Orbitas platform and landmark report on the climate transition risks of agriculture.

Neural Alpha provided an analysis on the scale and channels of UK financial sector exposure (both direct and indirect) to deforestation risk in Indonesian palm and Brazilian soy and beef, as WWF sought to strength commitments in the UK Environment Bill.