MALENA: leverage the power of data and AI for sustainable investing.

MALENA is an AI-powered solution tailored to emerging markets, that extracts meaningful insights from unstructured environmental, social and governance (ESG) data at scale, enabling rapid analysis, increasing productivity, and enhancing investor confidence.​ 

 The MALENA API enables your organization to quickly analyze massive amounts of unstructured ESG data, derive insights, and seamlessly integrate them into applications and workflows. 

Access to MALENA via API

Who is MALENA for?

Investors and financial institutions

Asset managers, banks, private equity firms, project finance lenders, insurance companies, export credit agencies, and stock exchanges can rapidly screen annual, sustainability, integrated, and impact reports and other ESG-related disclosures, enabling faster due diligence and efficient portfolio management.

Regulators

Banking regulators, capital market authorities, and environment ministries can assess ESG disclosures at scale from regulated entities, enabling faster turnaround times and better oversight.

Data providers​

ESG news and analysis providers can analyze unstructured text and generate insights, enhancing their data offerings.

Why the MALENA API?

  • Leverage IFC specialist analytical capabilities to understand ESG risks and originate sustainability financing opportunities.  

  • Enable faster, consistent ESG due diligence and efficient portfolio management.  

  • Facilitate regulatory compliance and automate reporting processes within regulations and reporting frameworks. 

  • Access an Al solution for quick and easy monitoring of companies ESG risks and commitments. 

  • Ongoing promotion of ESG practices and sustainability commitments. 

  • Provide streamlined and consistent ESG assessments of companies, regularly documenting reviews.

  • Allow users to proactively adapt to ESG risk events and maintain a sustainable risk profile.  

  • Enhance their data offerings by quickly analyzing unstructured ESG data.  

  • Generate new revenue streams through specialized Al and large language models.

Publications

Article: AI is driving ESG integration in emerging markets

July, 2024

Conference Paper: Term Based Sentiment Analysis as applied to ESG concepts

Dec, 2022

Blog Post: Harnessing AI to Drive Better Investment Outcomes

Sep, 2022

Book Chapter: Machine Learning for efficient review of Environmental and Social Impact Assessments

Sep, 2022

Discussion Paper: Artificial Intelligence Solutions to Support Environmental, Social, and Governance Integration in Emerging Markets

May, 2021

Events

MALENA at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2024

June, 2024

Champion Colleague - Atiyah Curmally

May, 2024

MALENA at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2023

June, 2023

MALENA at United Nations World Data Forum

May, 2023

Recognition

Finalist | 2023

Singapore Fintech Festival
MALENA was selected as a finalist for the AI in Finance Global Challenge 2023 under the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Global FinTech Hackcelerator to produce innovative and market-ready AI solutions that can transform the financial services industry.

Finalist | 2023

Databricks Data Team Transformation Award
MALENA was selected as a finalist for the Databricks 2023 Data Team Transformation Award, honoring data teams taking their businesses to the next level with data-driven transformation and accelerating operations that lead to clear, impactful results.

Outstanding | 2022

IRCAI GLOBAL TOP 100
The International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) recognized MALENA as one of the Top 10 AI projects to address the Sustainable Development Goals in 2022.

Promising | 2021

IRCAI GLOBAL TOP 100
The International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) recognized MALENA as one of the Top 100 AI projects to address the Sustainable Development Goals in 2021.