SYNE Ratings today announced the results of its first full year running a white-labelled, issuer-wide ESG ratings programme in partnership with a regional stock exchange, reaching 92% issuer participation across the exchange's listed universe.
The programme, built on SYNE's ESG Ratings for Exchanges product, gave the exchange a fully branded ratings experience - its own scale presentation and investor-facing reporting - running on SYNE's underlying methodology and analyst infrastructure. A tiered onboarding pathway let smaller, first-time-disclosing issuers start with a lighter reporting template before graduating to the full methodology.
Following the programme's first-year results, the exchange has now launched a branded flagship ESG index built directly on the underlying ratings, giving index-tracking investors a rules-based way to gain exposure to the exchange's highest-rated issuers.