LONDON (August 5, 2025) – ISS Sustainability Solutions, the sustainable investment business of ISS STOXX, today announced the acquisition of Sust Global, a leading provider of geospatial risk modeling and analytics for institutional investors, insurance companies, and others to understand, quantify, and visualize asset-level risks across a variety of geo-datasets and domains.
Founded in 2020, Sust Global draws on a proprietary geospatial AI engine that provides analytics to analyze and understand relationships, trends, and patterns within a region, resulting in high-resolution insights on material climate and nature related physical risks. The company delivers flexible data products that integrate into existing institutional client processes, with solutions that include a visual risk analytics tool, regulatory reporting solutions, data exports, direct API tools, and bespoke solutions. Sust Global’s geospatial platform harmonizes multimodal data, trains domain-specific predictive models, and deploys them into institutional investors’ workflows, applications, and indices.
“Institutional investors’ need for geospatial data and enhanced physical risk analytics is growing rapidly and we are pleased to address that demand through this transaction,” said Till Jung, Head of Sustainability Business at ISS STOXX. “Sust Global is a highly complementary fit whose platform and AI-powered physical risk models pair well with our proprietary asset level data. Our ability to map them to corporates and investment portfolios will result in highly effective solutions for our institutional clients.”
Financial institutions use Sust Global’s geospatial analytics to understand location-specific risk exposures and quantify financial impact. Sust Global’s products provide drill-down capability into individual asset locations, delivering essential data for risk management, due diligence, regulatory compliance and engagement.
“Our team at Sust Global is excited to join with ISS Sustainability Solutions and further its long-standing and important mission to provide investors with cutting-edge solutions to monitor portfolio company risks, including those that are geospatial in nature,” said Josh Gilbert, Sust Global co-founder and CEO.
Learn more about Sust Global here.
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About ISS Sustainability Solutions
ISS Sustainability Solutions enables investors to develop and integrate responsible investing policies and practices, engage on sustainable investment issues, and monitor portfolio company practices through screening solutions. It also provides data, analytics, and advisory services to help financial market participants understand, measure, and act on sustainability-related risks across all asset classes. In addition, its solutions include corporate and country research and ratings enabling its clients to identify potential material sustainability risks and opportunities. For more information, please visit us at: www.iss-esg.com
About ISS STOXX
ISS STOXX GmbH, through its group companies, is a leading provider of comprehensive and data-centric research and technology solutions that help capital market participants identify investment opportunities, detect qualitative and quantitative portfolio company risks, and meet evolving regulatory requirements. With roots dating back to 1985, we today deliver world-class benchmark and custom indices across asset classes and geographies and serve as a premier source of independent corporate governance, sustainability, cyber risk, and fund intelligence research, data, and related offerings. Our products and services give clients the scale and leverage they need to grow their business more effectively and efficiently. ISS STOXX, which is majority owned by Deutsche Börse Group, is comprised of more than 3,800 professionals operating across 30 global locations in 20 countries. Its approximately 5,500 clients include many of the world’s leading institutional investors who turn to ISS STOXX for its objective and varied offerings, as well as companies focused on ESG, cyber, and governance risk mitigation as a shareholder value enhancing measure. Clients rely on ISS STOXX’s expertise to help them make informed decisions to benefit their stakeholders.
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Executive Director, Communications
press@iss-stoxx.com
ISS STOXX to Acquire Geospatial Solutions Firm, Sust Global
LONDON (August 5, 2025) – ISS Sustainability Solutions, the sustainable investment business of ISS STOXX, today announced the acquisition of Sust Global, a leading provider of geospatial risk modeling and analytics for institutional investors, insurance companies, and others to understand, quantify, and visualize asset-level risks across a variety of geo-datasets and domains.
Founded in 2020, Sust Global draws on a proprietary geospatial AI engine that provides analytics to analyze and understand relationships, trends, and patterns within a region, resulting in high-resolution insights on material climate and nature related physical risks. The company delivers flexible data products that integrate into existing institutional client processes, with solutions that include a visual risk analytics tool, regulatory reporting solutions, data exports, direct API tools, and bespoke solutions. Sust Global’s geospatial platform harmonizes multimodal data, trains domain-specific predictive models, and deploys them into institutional investors’ workflows, applications, and indices.
“Institutional investors’ need for geospatial data and enhanced physical risk analytics is growing rapidly and we are pleased to address that demand through this transaction,” said Till Jung, Head of Sustainability Business at ISS STOXX. “Sust Global is a highly complementary fit whose platform and AI-powered physical risk models pair well with our proprietary asset level data. Our ability to map them to corporates and investment portfolios will result in highly effective solutions for our institutional clients.”
Financial institutions use Sust Global’s geospatial analytics to understand location-specific risk exposures and quantify financial impact. Sust Global’s products provide drill-down capability into individual asset locations, delivering essential data for risk management, due diligence, regulatory compliance and engagement.
“Our team at Sust Global is excited to join with ISS Sustainability Solutions and further its long-standing and important mission to provide investors with cutting-edge solutions to monitor portfolio company risks, including those that are geospatial in nature,” said Josh Gilbert, Sust Global co-founder and CEO.
Learn more about Sust Global here.
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About ISS Sustainability Solutions
ISS Sustainability Solutions enables investors to develop and integrate responsible investing policies and practices, engage on sustainable investment issues, and monitor portfolio company practices through screening solutions. It also provides data, analytics, and advisory services to help financial market participants understand, measure, and act on sustainability-related risks across all asset classes. In addition, its solutions include corporate and country research and ratings enabling its clients to identify potential material sustainability risks and opportunities. For more information, please visit us at: www.iss-esg.com
About ISS STOXX
ISS STOXX GmbH, through its group companies, is a leading provider of comprehensive and data-centric research and technology solutions that help capital market participants identify investment opportunities, detect qualitative and quantitative portfolio company risks, and meet evolving regulatory requirements. With roots dating back to 1985, we today deliver world-class benchmark and custom indices across asset classes and geographies and serve as a premier source of independent corporate governance, sustainability, cyber risk, and fund intelligence research, data, and related offerings. Our products and services give clients the scale and leverage they need to grow their business more effectively and efficiently. ISS STOXX, which is majority owned by Deutsche Börse Group, is comprised of more than 3,800 professionals operating across 30 global locations in 20 countries. Its approximately 5,500 clients include many of the world’s leading institutional investors who turn to ISS STOXX for its objective and varied offerings, as well as companies focused on ESG, cyber, and governance risk mitigation as a shareholder value enhancing measure. Clients rely on ISS STOXX’s expertise to help them make informed decisions to benefit their stakeholders.
Media Contact:
Sarah Ball
Executive Director, Communications
press@iss-stoxx.com
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