SNOWFLAKE USE CASE

ESG in Financial Services

Access ESG data to help inform portfolio construction, underwrite ESG products, power insurance risk analytics and comply with regulatory requirements.

Build Faster ESG Data Pipelines

Shorten data pipelines and accelerate data velocity by ingesting and bringing together ESG data via Snowflake Marketplace without traditional API and SFTP delivery mechanisms.

Power Proprietary ESG Analytics

Leverage Snowflake’s full elastic compute resources and near-infinite scale to perform faster proprietary ESG score analytics that are based on the aggregation of ESG data with other data sources.

Collaborate Internally and Externally With Apps

Build native applications or use Streamlit to enable faster and more streamlined collaboration of ESG analytics and insights across your organization or externally with customers.

Architecture of ESG in Financial Services

Portfolio Construction

Construct, optimize, and rebalance portfolios based on ESG metrics and portfolio performance - with full integration from industry-leading Powered by Snowflake investment management platforms.

Quantitative Research

Simplify ESG data pipelines, while accommodating the growth of data and varied dataset structures. Power AI/ML workloads to drive proprietary ESG models that enable faster research. And integrate seamlessly with industry-leading Powered by Snowflake solutions.

Sustainable Finance Transition

Streamline lending and bond issuance workflows on a single data platform by bringing together ESG data with public and private company data. Develop proprietary ESG scores that power green transition financing. 

Insurance Risk Assessment

Access ESG and Climate data via Snowflake Marketplace. And tap into Snowflake’s elastic multi-cluster compute to perform physical, transition and liability risk analytics that informs insurance underwriting workflows.

Financial Planning

Aggregate ESG data with client, account, and portfolio data. Build ML models that screen against ESG and generate Next Best Action. And leverage native apps to modernize how you share ESG insights and reporting with investors.

Regulatory Reporting

Meet SFDR reporting requirements with an ESG data strategy built on data access to industry-leading ESG data, scalable compute to derive sustainability risk metrics, and near-real time distribution of models and analytics.

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Snowflake and AWS have been key partners in our climate and ESG data journey. They’ve helped deliver an all-cloud source of truth for ESG data across the bank.

Andy Ruocco
Head of Climate Data and Technology, NatWest
CASE STUDY

See How Natwest Built an ESG Data Strategy on Snowflake

NatWest leveraged Snowflake to build a long-term, cloud-native ESG data and analytics platform that offers rapid deployment and testing, so the ESG team can quickly prototype new features to prove the value of its ideas.

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Snowflake Partners

Access industry-leading Powered by Snowflake solutions that meet your ESG needs. 

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Snowflake Marketplace

Find and access industry-leading ESG and Climate data from FactSet, S&P Global, MSCI, ESG Book, Weather Source, Cybersyn, and Accuweather.

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