The integration enhances the firm’s ability to deliver high-resolution climate-risk insights to institutions.
MSCI has acquired New York-based First Street, a climate-risk data and analytics firm, enhancing its global physical climate risk capabilities. First Street provides multi-hazard models The integration of First Street’s data and tools into MSCI’s climate and geospatial solutions is aimed at enabling quantified assessments of financially relevant physical climate risk at any geographic coordinate as well as across more than 2 billion structures worldwide. MSCI explained that