Banking on Sustainability – and Why the Data Gap Is Everyone’s Problem

Our CEO, Rupert Bull, takes to the stage at Reset Connect on 23 June.

On 23 June, Rupert Bull joins an expert panel at Reset Connect’s Finance & Investment Stage for Banking on Sustainability: Turning Responsibility into Opportunity – alongside
Heather Buchanan of Bankers for Net Zero, Mike Clark of Ario Advisory, and Russell Bishop, Head of Sustainable Finance Policy at the European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development (EBRD).

Reset Connect is the UK’s leading sustainability event, taking place on 23–24 June 2026 at the ExCeL London. Bringing together thousands of business leaders, investors,
policymakers and innovators, it’s where the sustainability conversation gets serious — and this year’s Finance & Investment Stage is shaping up to be one of the most
compelling programmes yet. You can register and find out more about the panel here.

The conversation will tackle one of the most pressing questions in sustainable finance right now: how do banks actually turn decarbonisation commitments into action, when
the data they need simply doesn’t exist?

It’s a question we think about every day at The Disruption House. For most private companies in the UK with turnover between £2m and £100m, sustainability reporting is
fragmented and far from streamlined. That leaves banks unable to credibly assess the climate and transition risk sitting inside their SME portfolios — risk that regulators,
investors and internal committees are increasingly demanding answers on.

For banks, the Climate Action Platform offers a proven digital infrastructure for scalable SME engagement and standardised sustainability reporting — helping banks move from
data blind spot to decision-ready insight.

But the data gap doesn’t stop at banking. Insurance companies are navigating the very same challenge. Underwriters and risk teams are being asked to price and manage
climate-related exposure across portfolios of commercial clients — yet the sustainability and resilience data on those clients is either inconsistent, incomplete, or
simply not there. Without reliable, comparable data on how a business manages its environmental risks, insurers are left making consequential decisions in the dark. That’s
not a compliance problem — it’s a fundamental risk management problem.

Corporates face the same reality when it comes to supplier screening and procurement. The question of whether your supply chain is resilient to climate
transition risk is only answerable if you have the data to back it up.

For insurers and corporates, our Public Disclosure Analysis directly addresses this blind spot — profiling thousands of unlisted companies based on publicly available
information, scored across 120 metrics aligned to international sustainability
frameworks.

No surveys. No company engagement required. Just decision-ready data at scale.

If any of this resonates — whether you’re a bank, an insurer, or a corporate grappling with sustainability data across your portfolio — come and find us at our stand at Reset
Connect this June.

The data gap is closing.

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