ESG Ratings for Exchanges built to cover a listed universe, not one company.
SYNE partners with stock exchanges to launch white-labelled ESG rating programmes - giving every listed company a rating, every investor a comparable benchmark, and the exchange its own branded ESG index, without years of infrastructure build-out.
From a branded scorecard to a full listed-market programme.
SYNE's ESG Ratings for Exchanges combines white-label rating infrastructure, issuer onboarding, index construction and investor distribution into one programme - built for exchanges who want rating infrastructure without building it themselves.
White-Label Rating Infrastructure
Exchange-branded ESG ratings built on SYNE's underlying methodology, criteria and data infrastructure.
Issuer Onboarding & Disclosure Portal
A branded portal where listed companies submit ESG disclosures and track their rating over time.
Exchange ESG Index Construction
Construct and maintain a branded ESG index drawn from the exchange's own rated listed universe.
Investor & Terminal Distribution
Distribute ratings and index data through the exchange's own website, data terminal, and vendor feeds.
Issuer Training & Workshops
Onboarding workshops and disclosure-readiness training for listed companies new to ESG reporting.
Regulatory Alignment Support
Align the programme with local disclosure mandates and phased mandatory or voluntary rollout schedules.
Four building blocks. One shared methodology underneath.
Every exchange programme is built from the same four components - Branding & Governance, Rating Infrastructure, Distribution, and Regulatory Alignment - configured to match the exchange's own market structure and disclosure regime.
Branding & Governance
The programme carries the exchange's identity, with SYNE's methodology underneath.
- Exchange-Branded Rating Scale
- Co-Governed Methodology Committee
- Local Advisory Panel
- Public Methodology Disclosure
Rating Infrastructure
The same rigorous scoring engine used across every SYNE Rating, applied to the exchange's listed universe.
- Shared AAA–D Scale & SYNE Index
- Sector-Specific Materiality Weighting
- Data Quality Scoring
- Annual Re-Rating Cycle
Distribution
Getting the rating in front of the investors who will actually use it.
- Exchange Website & Terminal Integration
- Branded ESG Index
- Vendor & Data License Feeds
- Investor-Facing Scorecards
Regulatory Alignment
Fitting the programme to the market's own disclosure regime and timeline.
- Local Disclosure Mandate Mapping
- Phased Mandatory/Voluntary Rollout
- Cross-Border Comparability via the SYNE Index
- Regulator Reporting Support
From a signed partnership to a live, branded programme.
Most programmes move through the same four stages, typically launching within two to three quarters of a signed partnership.
Co-Design the Programme
Agree branding, governance, sector weighting and disclosure timeline with the exchange's own teams.
Issuer Onboarding
Launch the disclosure portal and run training workshops across the exchange's listed universe.
First Ratings & Index
Publish the first cycle of ratings and launch the exchange's own branded ESG index.
Expand Coverage & Distribution
Extend coverage to additional listing boards and broaden investor and vendor distribution.
Built for every participant in a listed market, not just the exchange.
A white-label ESG programme only works if it serves the exchange, its issuers, and its investors at the same time.
Stock Exchanges & Market Operators
Launch credible ESG rating infrastructure without years of internal build-out or methodology development.
Listed Companies
Get a structured, supported pathway into ESG disclosure, with training rather than an unexplained mandate.
Institutional Investors & Index Funds
Get a comparable ESG benchmark across an entire market, not a patchwork of self-reported claims.
Market Regulators
Support phased disclosure mandates with ready-built infrastructure rather than requiring issuers to build their own.
Index Providers & Data Vendors
License a new, exchange-branded ESG index and dataset for distribution through existing vendor relationships.
Smaller & Regional Exchanges
Compete with larger markets on ESG infrastructure without the capital or headcount to build it independently.
Investor demand for ESG data doesn't wait for a market to build its own infrastructure.
Global capital increasingly screens for ESG performance before it allocates - and a listed market with no consistent, comparable ESG rating infrastructure risks being screened out entirely, regardless of the underlying quality of its issuers. Building that infrastructure independently can take years; partnering with an established methodology can take quarters.
Why ESG infrastructure affects capital flows
A market without comparable ESG data risks being screened out of global mandates before an investor ever evaluates an individual issuer.
What it means for listed companies
Most issuers new to ESG reporting need training and a structured pathway, not just a disclosure mandate and a deadline.
What it means for the exchange
Building an independent rating methodology from scratch takes years of research and credibility-building an exchange usually doesn't have time for.
What the programme actually delivers
A branded, credible, market-wide ESG rating programme - live in quarters, not years, and comparable globally via the SYNE Index.
What separates a SYNE exchange programme from a rebadged scorecard.
Four principles run through every exchange partnership, regardless of market size or disclosure maturity.
Same methodology, no dilution
Exchange programmes run on the same underlying criteria and AAA–D scale as every SYNE Rating - never a simplified or lower-bar version.
Locally governed, globally consistent
A local advisory panel informs sector weighting and rollout pace, while the underlying scale stays comparable via the SYNE Index.
Regulatory-grade independence
Operating under the same independence standards as every SYNE Rating, with methodology and governance published.
Full branding flexibility
The exchange's name and identity carry the programme - SYNE's role in the methodology is disclosed but not the headline.
A programme covers a market. A rating covers one entity.
An exchange programme is market-wide infrastructure that individual issuers participate in - not a substitute for a bespoke, deeper engagement where one is needed.
Infrastructure, not a single engagement
The exchange licenses a programme covering its entire listed universe - issuers are onboarded into it, rather than commissioning a standalone rating.
Licensing & revenue share
Priced as a market-level licensing or revenue-share arrangement with the exchange, not a per-engagement fee to each issuer.
Co-governed with the exchange
Sector weighting, rollout pace and local advisory input are agreed jointly, rather than set solely by SYNE.
Exchange-branded, SYNE-powered
Investors see the exchange's brand on the scale and the index; SYNE's methodology sits underneath, disclosed but not headline.
Whole-market, phased rollout
Typically launches with the main board and phases in additional listing tiers as issuer readiness and mandate timelines allow.
Still comparable via the SYNE Index
Because the underlying methodology is shared, an exchange-branded rating still maps onto the same global SYNE Index quadrants.
Programme infrastructure available across 71 licensed countries.
SYNE's exchange partnership model is built to be deployed in any of the 71 jurisdictions we're licensed in, adapted to the local listing structure and disclosure mandate timeline.
View the full country list →Each mark represents active coverage in one jurisdiction
The ratings and services an exchange programme draws on.
ESG Ratings for Exchanges is built on the same methodology as SYNE's rating products, and sits alongside the rest of SYNE's assurance and advisory services.
Bring ESG rating infrastructure to your market.
Talk to our exchange partnerships team about scoping a white-labelled ESG rating programme for your listed universe.