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Partner Corner: Next Gate Tech and Clarity AI Join Forces to Elevate ESG Analytics

Published: October 27, 2023
Modified: October 27, 2023

Next Gate Tech creates technologies that reshape the landscape of fund industry operations. The transformative solutions optimize processes, enhance efficiency, reduce risks, and drive cost savings for clients. Next Gate Tech’s SaaS platform generates powerful signals through intelligent analytics, empowering use cases such as Data Management, Oversight, Reporting and Multi-Source portfolio reconciliation.

Partnership with Clarity AI

Next Gate Tech selected Clarity AI because of the quality, coverage, and accuracy of Clarity AI’s data. The platform will integrate various datasets from Clarity AI to provide its clients with sustainability portfolio analytics through its SaaS platform for monitoring and reporting purposes.

Use-case

By combining Clarity AI’s and Next Gate Tech’s technology which automates the collection and harmonization of portfolio data from various sources, asset managers can now effortlessly monitor their sustainability-related data (exposures, PAIs, and climate) on a daily basis and create their SFDR and EU Taxonomy related reports directly from Next Gate Tech’s SaaS platform in seconds. 

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