MSCI Acquires First Street to Enhance Physical Climate Risk Capabilities for Financial Decision Making
MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI) is enhancing its global physical climate risk capabilities with the acquisition of First Street, a leading provider of physics-based climate risk data and analytics for every property in the world.
Investors, financial institutions and companies are demanding physical climate risk insights embedded directly into investment and risk workflows to inform critical financial decision making, as climate-related physical risks accelerate globally. First Street’s own research shows that companies have become more than 6.5 times as likely to issue profit warnings following extreme weather events in the past two decades.i
The integration of First Street’s data and tools into MSCI’s extensive climate and geospatial solutions will enable quantified assessments of financially relevant physical climate risk at any geographic coordinate and across more than 2 billion structures worldwide.ii
These additional capabilities can help institutions meet rising regulatory and reporting requirements while supporting physical risk management and adaptation and resilience planning.
