Financial information provider Causality Link has been chosen by Amundi Technology, a subsidiary of Europe’s largest asset manager, to provide insight into drivers of ESG investment performance.

With the Causality Link platform, Amundi is hoping to explore the future potential ESG performance of companies, industries and other KPIs of interest. Insights from the platform will be used expand Amundi’s current offerings to asset managers and institutional investors worldwide with a real-time picture of global markets derived from millions of documents processed by Causality Link’s AI-powered platform.

Causality Link employs natural language processing (NLP) to create real-time causal analysis, its platform has apparently pioneered the technology to identify the impact of sustainability factors and their causal interactions with fundamental business factors.

“The solution is leading the next wave of AI innovation that leverages technology to combine human knowledge from thousands of authors,” said Matthieu Keip, Innovation Lead for Amundi Technology.

“We are thrilled to have been selected by Amundi,” said Pierre Haren, CEO and co-founder of Causality Link. “Our unique technology is blending machine learning with symbolic AI to deliver understandable results that reduce the task of reading to just the essential information our customers need to be aware of, and aggregates in real time the results of thousands of authors into a coherent world view of the forces acting on the markets. We’re excited to be able to deliver these capabilities to Amundi and its customers.”