Sustainability
Accounting
Standards Board
SASB Standards guide companies to disclose relevant information to investors based on their industry sector; SASB provide 77 industry sector standards identifying the sustainability related risk and opportunities most likely to impact an entity's cash flows, access to capital and cost of capital over the short, medium or long term. As of 2022 the International Standards Board (ISSB) of the IFRS Foundation assumed responsibility for the SASB standards. In future, we will align with ISSB's sustainability reporting standards.
The table below summarises LSEG's alignment to the SASB's Security & Commodity Exchanges standards.
Topic | Accounting metric | Unit of measure | Disclosure |
1) Number and (2) average duration | |||
of (a) halts related to public release of | Number/minutes | Not disclosed | |
information and (b) pauses related to | |||
volatility | |||
Percentage of trades generated from | Percentage | Not disclosed | |
automated trading systems | |||
Percentage of trades generated from | N/A | We do not provide any advice to our clients about the content or timing of their disclosures. All responsibility for content and | |
automated trading systems | timing rests with the client | ||
Publication of TCFD-aligned climate reporting guidance to educate the market and encourage best practice climate-related | |||
disclosure | |||
Publication of ESG reporting guidance to educate the market and encourage best practice disclosure | |||
Application of FTSE Russell data and Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) methodology to provide listed companies with an | |||
Promoting | assessment of their carbon management practices, helping identify areas for improvement in their climate disclosure and | ||
Transparent & Efficient | integration of climate risks and opportunities into business strategy (Climate Governance Score) | ||
Capital Markets | Provision of an online tool for issuers to receive personalised recommendations on how to improve climate-related disclosure | ||
Description of policy to encourage or | (Climate Governance Tool) | ||
On-demand training on climate disclosure and TCFD implementation available to educate listed companies via the Issuer Services | |||
require listed companies to publicly | |||
N/A | platform | ||
disclose environmental, social and | |||
Provision of one of the industry's most comprehensive ESG data feeds LSEG ESG data directly to London's issuers via the Issuer | |||
governance (ESG) information | |||
Services platform | |||
Regular webinars and events with participation from LSEG experts and industry specialists on the importance of ESG disclosure, | |||
covering regions and sectors | |||
Established green economy equities classification (Green Economy Mark) to incentivise disclosure of revenues generated from | |||
activities that contribute to environmental objectives | |||
Annual report on the trends and performance of listed green economy companies and funds | |||
Issuers with bonds listed on our Sustainable Bond Market must comply with mandatory annual post-issuance reporting | |||
requirements to demonstrate continued eligibility for the Sustainable Bond Market |
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Topic | Accounting metric | Unit of measure | Disclosure | ||||||
Total amount of monetary losses | Direct engagement with issuers on market development and regulatory trends in ESG and climate disclosure | ||||||||
because of legal proceedings | LSEG did not sustain any monetary losses in the reporting period as a result of legal proceedings associated with fraud, insider | ||||||||
associated with fraud, insider trading, | |||||||||
Reporting | trading, antitrust, anti-competitive behaviour, market manipulation, malpractice, or other relevant financial industry laws or | ||||||||
anti-trust,anti-competitive behaviour, | |||||||||
Currency | regulations related to fraud, insider trading, anti-trust,anti-competitive behaviour, market manipulation or malpractice | ||||||||
market manipulation, malpractice, or | |||||||||
other related financial industry laws or | |||||||||
regulations | |||||||||
Discussion of processes for identifying | LSEG PLC maintains a Group Conflicts | of Interest | Policy which is subject to an annual review | ||||||
Managing Conflicts | and assessing conflicts | of interest | The policy: | ||||||
of Interest | - Provides guidance to assist in the identification | of both personal and business conflicts | |||||||
- Sets out requirements to clearly identify all conflicts and, if | possible, take appropriate steps to avoid them | ||||||||
N/A | - Where conflicts cannot be avoided, | mandates that they will | be disclosed or recorded and effectively managed to mitigate any | ||||||
associated risk that a Group entity or employee might be, or be perceived to be, unduly influenced by them | |||||||||
- Mandatory conflicts of interest training is provided to all employees annually to ensure the | provisions set out in the policy are | ||||||||
communicated, reinforced and understood. To confirm their comprehension of the training, | all employees must pass a test before | ||||||||
they are considered to have successfully completed the course | |||||||||
Completion of the course is tracked, with any non-completion escalated to the employee's people leader | |||||||||
(1) Number of significant | market | Number/hours | One incident due to a software defect in a FX Matching vendor product. This impacted customers for 1 hour 19 minutes. The issue | ||||||
disruptions and (2) duration of downtime | has been remediated | ||||||||
(1) Number of data breaches, (2) | Number/ | ||||||||
Managing Business | percentage involving personally | percentage | In 2023, LSEG did not record any reportable incident of PII wherein customers were impacted directly | ||||||
identifiable information (PII), (3) number | of | ||||||||
Continuity & | |||||||||
customers affected | |||||||||
Technology Risks | |||||||||
Description of efforts to | prevent | N/A | LSEG aims to proactively detect and/or prevent technology errors and security breaches to minimise the risk of disruption to | ||||||
technology errors, security breaches and | the business and safeguard data. LSEG has established layers of defence to mitigate against security breaches, ranging from | ||||||||
market disruptions | protecting the external-facing perimeter to defending the internal network. Our Global Security Operations Centre monitors and | ||||||||
rapidly responds to security alerts |
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SASB Activity Metric
Activity metric | Unit of measure | Disclosure |
LSE order book = 565,412 | ||
Average daily number of trades executed by | Number/minutes | Turquoise Lit = 441,913 |
product or asset class | Turquoise Plato = 51,883 | |
Turquoise Plato Lit Auctions = 8,632 | ||
LSE order book = £ 3,699,221,575 | ||
Average daily volume traded by product or | Reporting currency | Turquoise Lit = € 1,068,759,134 |
asset class | Turquoise Plato = € 721,394,933 | |
Turquoise Plato Lit Auctions = €55,501,821 | ||
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