Sustainability Magazine July 2026 | Page 132

AI
It can then help develop insights that are valuable for wider teams within the business, and not just ratings agencies.
“ Because we know what the data requirements are, we’ re helping them collect the right sort of data,” adds Farzad.“ Essentially, we have an analytical engine that sits on top of the data collection piece, programmed to provide more insights into decision-making.
“ We have dashboards and views designed for, say, someone from the supply chain to give them not just the ESG view, but also, say, a procurement view, for example. When you marry the two of them together, it’ s helping ESG set more operational and strategic goals for our clients rather than it being a siloed decision-making process.

“These complicated and sophisticated systems have been designed to calculate and capture all of this data, but it’ s not really translating into that management piece yet”

Farzad Wadia ESG Lead IRIS RegTech Solutions
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