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Sustainable Finance Data: Strategic Navigation of Regulatory Complexity

Sustainable Finance Data: Strategic Navigation of Regulatory Complexity

Bloomberg5 days ago
As sustainability and climate considerations become integral to financial markets, a few key trends are shaping the landscape: the maturation of reporting standards, deeper understanding of materiality, and broader integration across investment, risk, and capital markets workflows. With these trends comes a pressing need for enterprises to centralize sustainability data across all functions—including risk management, advisory, trading, research, and regulatory reporting—while ensuring confidence in its quality, consistency, and governance.
However, sustainability and climate datasets remain inherently less standardized than traditional financial data, making strong data acquisition, transformation, and validation processes essential. Our new Sustainable Finance Solutions webinar series will give asset managers, banks, asset owners, and corporations a behind-the-scenes look at Bloomberg's approach to high-quality, reliable sustainability data—from core corporate sustainability reporting to complex datasets like biodiversity and physical climate risk assessment.
In this session, we will explore:
Challenges in the sustainable finance regulatory environment
The nuances of reviewing, collecting, and standardizing regulatory information to ensure a high quality dataset
Leveraging these datasets in decision-useful analytics
Join us as we take a deep dive into the data powering sustainable finance decisions across the Bloomberg Terminal and Enterprise Data feeds.
Speakers
Federico Benetti
Data Management Professional, Sustainable Finance Regulations Data
Bloomberg
Federico is specialised in the management and quality of regulatory datasets. He plays a key role in ensuring that data products are aligned with client needs and regulatory standards by implementing robust validation and remediation frameworks. His work supports the delivery of reliable, fit-for-purpose datasets that underpin critical compliance and reporting solutions.
Nicola Moscan
Product Owner, Sustainable Finance Regulations Data
Bloomberg
Nicola Moscan is a Product Owner at Bloomberg, focused on the strategy and development of Sustainable Finance Regulations Data. He leads the data product vision underpinning key regulatory frameworks — such as the EU Taxonomy, CSRD, and SFDR — ensuring the datasets are robust, transparent, and ready for use across a range of client-facing solutions. Nicola's role centers on data management as a strategic enabler: aligning sourcing, modeling, governance, and quality practices to meet regulatory requirements and business needs. He previously worked as a data specialist within the same team, contributing to a broad portfolio of initiatives across regulatory research, data operations, and infrastructure. Before joining Bloomberg, Nicola worked at a financial data vendor specializing in asset-backed securities. There, he focused on loan-level data sourced from regulatory disclosure obligations under the European Securitisation Regulation — strengthening his foundation in regulatory data design and compliance. Nicola brings deep expertise in regulatory data workflows and is passionate about delivering trusted, fit-for-purpose data that powers sustainable finance across the industry.
Karen Brenseke
Sustainable Finance Market Specialist
Bloomberg
Karen Brenseke is an ESG Market Specialist at Bloomberg. She focuses on helping financial market participants navigate the ever-changing landscape of sustainable finance, impacts of global regulations and frameworks, and integration of ESG information into decision-making and risk management processes. Prior to her role as an ESG Market Specialist, Karen specialized in building enterprise data products for ESG regulations including the European Union (EU) Taxonomy, Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). She has led various consultation efforts with regulators and advisory groups to enhance the clarity, usability, and interoperability of global regulations.
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