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NEW YORK, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) has concluded the first-ever Claremont FinTech Hackathon, a national competition open to students at the California-based Claremont Colleges Consortium. The winning team will have the opportunity to develop their project with a team from S&P Global.
During the month-long hackathon, students used S&P Global datasets and modeling to assess how U.S. companies are accelerating progress in the world through environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts. The winning team, CGU FinTech, worked to identify a correlation between human capital development and talent attraction and retention, as proxies for identifying companies exposure to racial and social injustice. The team s findings indicate that these factors, on average, contribute most to the social dimension of a company s S&P Global ESG Score, and therefore may be representative of how well companies are dealing with emerging