Akash Shah

"One of the most important things we can do is help set a pathway for our world that is generally based on more inclusion, fairness and ultimately serving societal goals at the most important level."

"I think we're particularly excited in the ESG space. So we've gone from a period where that was a buzzword or a phrase, and now people are actually committing real capital."

"A fifth of the world's securities flow through our systems every single day, and in many ways, we are the central membrane of financial markets. Now, we have a fundamental belief, which only a 250 year old institution can claim to, which is economies grow when financial markets become healthier, and financial markets, of course, become healthier when economies grow. So we think we have an important role in facilitating how economies transform and transition, especially facing the big questions of our time today, including climate change.

"So we have $44 trillion of assets under Data Management. And what we do is we actually expose a lot of that information to the world, particularly on ESG factors, other forms of financial strength, of the underlying securities. And what we're focused on is just making that data more readily available to average retail investors."