Verify governance alignment and uncover early warning signs with AI-generated insights.

With rising regulatory expectations and increased scrutiny on corporate governance, investors need fast, reliable ways to assess governance risk. SESAMm’s Good Governance AI-generated report delivers a rapid, data-driven assessment of governance alignment and structural risk indicators. It helps professionals verify regulatory requirements and detect early warning signs before they escalate.

Accelerating Governance Risk Assessment

As scrutiny around corporate governance intensifies, particularly under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), investors are expected to demonstrate robust good governance checks. Traditional governance analysis often requires time-consuming reviews of disclosures, board composition, NGO reports, and news.

SESAMm’s Good Governance Report automates this process. Our technology analyzes millions of documents and news sources to surface governance-related risks across millions of public and private companies worldwide.

Each report is generated automatically in minutes and includes:

• A clear risk level
• A structured summary of findings
• Verifiable source references for transparency and audit readiness

This ensures governance assessments are fast, explainable, and defensible.

Strengthening Governance Checks at Every Stage

The Good Governance Report supports professionals across pre-investment, transaction, and ongoing monitoring workflows:

• Carry out SFDR governance checks: Accelerate mandatory good governance checks for Articles 8 and 9‍
• Early warning signals: Identify signs of board dysfunction, weak oversight, unethical practices, or financial mismanagement before they escalate.
• Accelerated due diligence: Provide a fast, structured view of risks, reducing manual screening time.
• Consistent, scalable assessments: Every company is evaluated using the same methodology, ensuring comparability across portfolios.

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A Growing Suite of AI Reports

These new Good Governance reports are the latest addition to SESAMm’s expanding portfolio of AI-generated reports. Other reports include ESG assessments, supply chain screening, secondaries screening, deal screening, and legal risk.

By combining AI-powered text analysis with structured risk categorization, SESAMm enables professionals to go from question to insight  - and from risk to response - faster than ever.

Infrastructure is no longer a niche allocation. It sits at the center of energy transition strategies, industrial policy, and long-term portfolio construction. For investors, banks, and insurers, exposure to infrastructure projects also means exposure to complex, evolving ESG and reputational risks.

More than 250,000 infrastructure projects worldwide are monitored on the SESAMm platform. This coverage continues to expand, with new projects added regularly, including in response to client requests.

“Infrastructure projects generate vast amounts of fragmented information across local media, regulatory sources, and public reporting. Our goal is to transform that information into structured intelligence. With more than 250,000 projects covered globally, SESAMm provides investors and financial institutions with the visibility needed to monitor infrastructure risks at scale,” commented Sylvain Forté, CEO & Co-Founder, SESAMm. 

A Truly Global View of Infrastructure Risk

SESAMm analyzes sources in more than 100 languages and provides global visibility into infrastructure assets, including in emerging markets and jurisdictions with limited public disclosure. Through multilingual AI analysis, SESAMm monitors projects in their local information environments, detecting controversies, regulatory actions, environmental incidents, corruption cases, and governance failures as they emerge.

Whether a project is located in Europe, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, or Latin America, clients gain access to:

• Local-language media monitoring
• Structured ESG event detection
• Clear visibility into how events evolve over time
• Severity and exposure scoring

Infrastructure risk is rarely static. It evolves during permitting, construction, operation, and financing, and SESAMm’s monitoring reflects that reality.

Coverage Across Key Infrastructure Categories

SESAMm’s infrastructure coverage includes a wide range of asset types, such as:

• Solar Stations
• Airports
• Waste Management Facilities
• Wind Stations
• Dams
• Coal Mines
• Oil & Gas Plants
• Hydropower Stations
• Coal Power Stations
• Steel Plants
• Bioenergy Stations
• Nuclear Stations
• Coal Terminals
• Geothermal Stations

This breadth enables clients to assess risks across both legacy and transition-aligned infrastructure.

Why Infrastructure Monitoring Matters Now

Infrastructure projects concentrate risk. They involve long timelines, large capital commitments, public scrutiny, regulatory complexity, and significant community impact.

For investors and lenders, point-in-time due diligence is no longer sufficient. A project cleared at financial close can face protests, litigation, environmental incidents, corruption allegations, or regulatory breaches years later.

Continuous monitoring is becoming essential for:

• Pre-investment screening
• Ongoing portfolio oversight
• Secondaries transactions
• Infrastructure debt underwriting
• Insurance risk assessment
• Sustainability and SFDR reporting

Our expanded coverage supports these workflows with structured, real-time intelligence.

On-Demand Expansion: Coverage That Grows With You

Beyond the projects already included in the dataset, SESAMm adds new infrastructure assets upon client request. This allows coverage to align directly with a pipeline of acquisition targets, a lender’s financing book, an insurer’s underwriting portfolio, or a fund’s watchlist. Rather than forcing clients to adapt to a fixed database, SESAMm’s infrastructure coverage scales dynamically to meet their needs.

With more than 250,000 assets included, SESAMm delivers one of the most comprehensive and scalable datasets for infrastructure risk monitoring. Together, this expanded infrastructure dataset and SESAMm’s AI reporting capabilities provide financial institutions with a scalable way to identify and monitor risks across infrastructure portfolios worldwide.

Learn more about our AI reports here.

Paris, France – 24 février 2026 – SESAMm, leader mondial des données de controverses ESG et réputationnelles, annonce le renouvellement de son partenariat avec le Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, initié en janvier 2023, pour le renforcement de l’évaluation et du suivi des risques ESG au sein de ses activités d’achats et d’investissement.

Depuis le début de cette collaboration, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa s’appuie sur la plateforme SESAMm pour analyser les risques environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance liés à ses fournisseurs, partenaires et participations. Grâce à des données de controverses ESG fondées sur l’intelligence artificielle, il est possible d’identifier notamment les manquements réglementaires, incidents environnementaux, risques sociaux, atteintes aux droits humains, cas de corruption et autres risques réputationnels.

Dans le cadre de ce partenariat renouvelé, SESAMm poursuit cet accompagnement, à la fois lors des appels d’offres et dans le suivi continu des tiers, ainsi que pour l’analyse des dossiers d’investissement et la surveillance quotidienne du portefeuille, complétées par des synthèses hebdomadaires des controverses ESG.

Ce renouvellement de confiance confirme la valeur ajoutée des analyses de SESAMm pour renforcer la cohérence, la réactivité et la robustesse des processus de due diligence et de gestion des risques ESG du Crédit Mutuel Arkéa.

Paris, France – 24 février 2026 – SESAMm, leader mondial des données de controverses ESG et réputationnelles, annonce le renouvellement de son partenariat avec le Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, initié en janvier 2023, pour le renforcement de l’évaluation et du suivi des risques ESG au sein de ses activités d’achats et d’investissement.

Depuis le début de cette collaboration, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa s’appuie sur la plateforme SESAMm pour analyser les risques environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance liés à ses fournisseurs, partenaires et participations. Grâce à des données de controverses ESG fondées sur l’intelligence artificielle, il est possible d’identifier notamment les manquements réglementaires, incidents environnementaux, risques sociaux, atteintes aux droits humains, cas de corruption et autres risques réputationnels.

Dans le cadre de ce partenariat renouvelé, SESAMm poursuit cet accompagnement, à la fois lors des appels d’offres et dans le suivi continu des tiers, ainsi que pour l’analyse des dossiers d’investissement et la surveillance quotidienne du portefeuille, complétées par des synthèses hebdomadaires des controverses ESG.

Ce renouvellement de confiance confirme la valeur ajoutée des analyses de SESAMm pour renforcer la cohérence, la réactivité et la robustesse des processus de due diligence et de gestion des risques ESG du Crédit Mutuel Arkéa.

Following the success of SESAMm’s AI-Powered Deal Screening Reports, we’re expanding our due diligence suite with a new addition: the AI-Powered Legal Risk Report. Built for private equity, M&A, and legal teams, it delivers a rapid, data-driven view of a company’s litigation, regulatory, reputational exposure and all public compliance documentation and disclosures, helping professionals identify red flags early and make faster, more informed decisions.

Accelerating Legal Due Diligence

In private equity transactions, time is limited but the stakes are high. Traditional legal research can take weeks of reviewing court filings, disclosures, and media coverage. SESAMm’s Legal Risk Report automates this process, scanning millions of documents to surface potential risks in less than an hour.

Each report is generated automatically in less than 15 minutes and backed by verifiable sources, giving legal and compliance teams the transparency they need to validate findings and support defensible due diligence.

The Legal Risk Report helps professionals accelerate and strengthen their assessments at every stage of a transaction:

• Reduce blind spots: Uncover litigation, compliance, or reputational issues that manual research might miss.
• Strengthen documentation: Support client memos and audit findings with verifiable, AI-extracted evidence.
• Reduce costs and time: Cut research hours while maintaining defensible, high-quality standards.

SESAMm’s technology is trusted by leading financial institutions to enhance their understanding of ESG, reputational, and regulatory risks. The new Legal Risk Report builds on this foundation, extending SESAMm’s AI capabilities to help law firms, compliance officers, and corporate legal teams uncover litigation and reputational exposures with speed and transparency.

A Growing Suite of AI Reports

These new Legal Risk reports are the latest addition to SESAMm’s expanding portfolio of AI-generated reports. Other reports include ESG assessments, supply chain screening, secondaries screening, and deal screening.

By combining AI-powered text analysis with structured risk categorization, SESAMm enables professionals to go from question to insight  - and from risk to response - faster than ever.

SESAMm is pleased to announce that Nathalie Wallace is joining our Advisory Board. Nathalie brings more than 20 years of experience at the intersection of investment management, sustainability strategy, and executive leadership. She has built a career helping global investment organizations integrate sustainability into investment decision-making and capital allocation.

Commenting on the appointment, Sylvain Forté, CEO of SESAMm, said, “Nathalie brings a rare combination of investment experience, strategic vision, and deep understanding of how sustainability considerations translate into real-world investment decisions. Her perspective will be invaluable as SESAMm continues to support financial institutions navigating increasingly complex risk and regulatory environments.”

She previously served as Chief Sustainability Officer at Edmond de Rothschild, where she contributed to the firm’s sustainability strategy across asset classes. Prior to that, Nathalie was Global Head of Sustainable Investment at Natixis Investment Managers, where she was a member of the executive, investment, and seed committees, chaired the CSR–Sustainable Investment committee, and served on the boards of Mirova and Ostrum Asset Management. Earlier in her career, she was Global Head of Strategy and Business Development at Mirova, supporting its growth and positioning as a leading sustainable investment platform.

As Senior Advisor to SESAMm, Nathalie will support the company’s strategic direction, bringing her perspective on sustainable finance, investor expectations, and the evolving role of data and AI in risk analysis and investment processes.

“SESAMm’s approach to risk and sustainability intelligence reflects how investment teams are evolving their processes,” said Nathalie Wallace. “I’m excited to contribute my perspective as the firm continues to support investors with timely, decision-relevant insights.”

We are delighted to welcome Nathalie to SESAMm and look forward to working together as we continue to support financial institutions with forward-looking risk and sustainability insights.

SESAMm’s AI Technology Reveals ESG Insights

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SESAMm is pleased to welcome Guy Gresham to its Advisory Board. A globally recognized capital-markets strategist and former Group Head of Global Investor Relations Advisory at BNY, Guy brings more than two decades of experience in global financial services, specializing in equity capital markets, investor relations, and sustainability. Originally from New Zealand and now based in New York, he has deep expertise in regulatory compliance, ESG governance, and aligning global standards with business operations. His presence in North America will further strengthen SESAMm’s footprint in the U.S. market at a time of rapidly evolving expectations around sustainability and reputational risk.

Guy’s experience advising companies across more than 50 countries, combined with his understanding of the North American market, brings a tremendous amount of insight and credibility,” said Sylvain Forté, CEO of SESAMm. “He has a remarkable ability to bridge sustainability, regulation, and capital-markets strategy, and we’re delighted to welcome him to our advisory board.”

During his time leading BNY’s Global Investor Relations Advisory group, Guy oversaw a global team supporting issuers across multiple markets and guided companies through major shifts in regulation, geopolitics, and capital markets expectations. As co-chair of BNY’s enterprise ESG Advisory Council and the Sustainable Client Solutions Working Group, he advised executive management on governance and regulatory requirements, embedding sustainability into core decision-making and risk management.

Today, Guy sits on the advisory committee of Sedex, a leading global supply-chain sustainability data platform, and serves as a non-executive director at Strategy&Ops, an international consultancy focused on sustainability and digital transformation. He holds an MBA from Cornell University, a BA (Hons) in International Relations from Victoria University of Wellington, and is a 2026 Digital Statecraft Fellow at Cambridge University.

“The growing convergence of sustainability, regulation, and technology is reshaping how companies engage with investors and manage risk,” said Guy Gresham. “SESAMm is at the forefront of this transition, using advanced AI to surface insights that were previously inaccessible. I’m delighted to support the team as they scale these capabilities globally.”

We’re thrilled to welcome Guy to SESAMm’s Advisory Board and look forward to working together as we continue advancing AI-powered ESG and reputational risk analysis worldwide, including expanding our partnerships and presence across North America.

SESAMm’s AI Technology Reveals ESG Insights

Discover unparalleled insights into ESG controversies, risks, and opportunities across industries. Learn more about how SESAMm can help you analyze millions of private and public companies using AI-powered text analysis tools.

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Paris, France – le 1er décembre 2025 – SESAMm, leader mondial des données de controverses ESG et réputationnelles, est heureux d’annoncer que la Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes, grande institution bancaire régionale française, a sélectionné la plateforme SESAMm pour renforcer son évaluation des risques ESG et son suivi des controverses dans le cadre de ses activités de financement et d’investissement.

Présente dans l’une des régions les plus dynamiques de France, la Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes accompagne les particuliers, les entreprises et les collectivités locales avec des solutions de financement, des produits d’investissement et des initiatives en faveur d’un développement régional à long terme. Dans le cadre de son engagement en faveur d’une finance responsable et durable, la banque évalue systématiquement les entreprises et organisations qu’elle finance sur les risques environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance, ainsi que les projets qu’elle mène. Elle s’appuiera désormais sur les données de controverses ESG de SESAMm pour identifier les manquements réglementaires, les incidents environnementaux, les cas de corruption, les violations des droits humains et d’autres indicateurs de risque.

« Cette collaboration reflète notre travail croissant avec les groupes bancaires français et les institutions régionales », déclare Sylvain Forté, CEO et cofondateur de SESAMm. « Nous sommes particulièrement fiers d’accompagner la Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes grâce à une couverture renforcée des entreprises locales et non cotées, un domaine dans lequel  les jeux de données traditionnels manquent souvent de profondeur. Nos outils d’intelligence artificielle permettent de révéler les risques ESG les plus pertinents pour le financement et le développement régional. »

Grâce à SESAMm, les équipes de la Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes bénéficient d’une visibilité en temps réel sur les risques ESG et réputationnels concernant les entreprises de la région Rhône-Alpes et du marché français au sens large. La plateforme offre un accès transparent aux sources à l’origine de chaque controverse détectée et propose un tableau de bord intuitif qui facilite les processus de due diligence. Des alertes automatisées permettent également d’identifier plus rapidement les risques émergents, renforçant ainsi la cohérence et l’efficacité des évaluations de projets.

« SESAMm a démontré une forte capacité à identifier les risques ESG concernant des entreprises locales et non cotées, un domaine dans lequel nous avons besoin d’une visibilité complète », déclare Sylvain Brissot, Directeur de la Coordination de la Transition Climatique, Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes. « Nous prévoyons que les analyses de SESAMm amélioreront l’efficacité de nos évaluations ESG sur un large éventail de projets régionaux. »

À propos de la Caisse d’Épargne Rhône Alpes

La Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes est une banque commerciale, régionale et coopérative de plein exercice présente sur cinq départements (Ain, Isère, Rhône, Savoie et Haute-Savoie) et sur tous les métiers de la banque. Elle agit au quotidien pour le développement de son territoire. Elle compte 1,4 million de clients, 445 000 sociétaires, 3 000 collaborateurs, 280 agences, 8 centres d'affaires.

À propos de SESAMm

SESAMm est un leader mondial des données sur les controverses, utilisant l’IA générative pour détecter rapidement les risques ESG, réputationnels et liés aux fournisseurs. Sa plateforme, propulsée par l’IA, fournit des informations en temps réel, même dans les marchés à faible niveau de transparence, sur des millions d’entreprises et de projets d’infrastructure. Elle permet ainsi de prendre des décisions plus éclairées, de renforcer la due diligence et de répondre aux exigences réglementaires à grande échelle. SESAMm collabore avec des acteurs majeurs tels que Carlyle, Warburg, Natixis, RBI, Sustainable Fitch, Oddo et bien d’autres. La société a levé 50 millions de dollars auprès d’investisseurs de premier plan et est présente sur quatre continents. Plus d’informations sur www.sesamm.com.

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Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes Chooses SESAMm to Strengthen ESG Risk Evaluation Across Regional Projects

Paris, France – December 1st, 2025 – SESAMm, a leading provider of AI-powered ESG controversy data, is pleased to announce that Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes, a major French regional banking institution, has selected SESAMm’s platform to strengthen ESG risk assessment and controversy monitoring across its financing and investment activities.

Operating in one of France’s most dynamic regions, Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes supports individuals, businesses, and local authorities with financing solutions, investment products, and initiatives that promote long-term regional development. As part of its commitment to responsible banking and sustainable growth, the bank systematically evaluates the companies and organizations it finances for environmental, social, and governance risks, including the projects they carry out. Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes will now leverage SESAMm’s ESG controversy data to identify regulatory breaches, environmental incidents, corruption cases, human-rights violations, and other relevant risk indicators.

“This collaboration reflects our growing work with French banking groups and regional institutions,” said Sylvain Forté, CEO and co-founder of SESAMm. “We are especially proud to partner with Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes by providing stronger coverage of local and non-listed French companies, an area where traditional datasets often lack depth. Our AI helps uncover ESG risks that matter most for regional financing and development.”

Using SESAMm, Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes teams gain real-time visibility into ESG and reputational risks affecting companies across the Rhône-Alpes region and the wider French market. The platform provides transparent, source-level access to all detected controversies and an intuitive dashboard that simplifies due diligence workflows. Automated alerts also help teams identify emerging issues early, improving the consistency and efficiency of project evaluations.

“SESAMm demonstrated strong capabilities in identifying ESG risks among local and non-listed firms, an area where we require comprehensive visibility,” said Sylvain Brissot, Director of Climate Transition Coordination, Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes. “We expect SESAMm’s insights to enhance the efficiency of our ESG risk assessments across a wide range of regional projects.”

About Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes

Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes is a full-service, regional cooperative bank operating across five departments (Ain, Isère, Rhône, Savoie, and Haute-Savoie) and covering all areas of banking. The bank works daily to support the development of its territory. It serves 1.4 million clients, has 445,000 cooperative shareholders, employs 3,000 people, and operates 280 branches and 8 business centers.

About SESAMm

SESAMm is a global leader in controversy data, leveraging advanced large language models and generative AI to uncover ESG, reputational, and supplier risks in seconds. Our AI-powered platform surfaces real-time insights, even in low-disclosure markets, on millions of companies and infrastructure projects, supporting more informed decisions, enhanced due diligence and regulatory alignment at scale. We work with leading firms including Carlyle, Warburg, Natixis, RBI, Sustainable Fitch, Oddo, and others. SESAMm has raised $50M from renowned investors and operates across four continents. Learn more at www.sesamm.com

SESAMm, a leading provider of AI-powered ESG and reputational risk data, is pleased to announce that Flexstone Partners, a global private equity investment manager and advisor, has selected SESAMm’s platform to strengthen its pre-investment screening and portfolio monitoring processes.

With approximately €10 billion in assets under management, Flexstone Partners invests globally across all private asset classes, including private equity, mezzanine, and infrastructure, through primary and secondary investments in funds, as well as direct co-investments in buyout & growth capital transactions. As a signatory of the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) and an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, the firm integrates ESG considerations across its strategies and throughout the investment lifecycle.

As part of its investment process, Flexstone Partners systematically screens potential and existing holdings for controversies and reputational risks. The firm will now leverage SESAMm’s AI-powered ESG and reputational risk data to identify issues such as human rights violations, corruption, and environmental breaches, even among non-listed firms.

“This collaboration marks another milestone in our work with Natixis Investment Managers’ affiliates,” said Sylvain Forté, CEO and co-founder of SESAMm. “Flexstone stands out for its rigorous and forward-looking approach to ESG integration. We’re proud to support their teams with AI-powered insights that help strengthen due diligence and portfolio monitoring across their global investments.”

With SESAMm, users gain real-time visibility into ESG and reputational risks across millions of public and private companies worldwide. The platform leverages multilingual large language models to analyze content from over 4 million sources in 100+ languages, providing fully auditable data and early detection of potential red flags, empowering investment teams to strengthen both due diligence and ongoing portfolio monitoring.

“SESAMm’s controversy insights demonstrated both speed and quality, and the platform appears to integrate smoothly into our existing due diligence and monitoring processes. While we have not yet fully deployed the tool, we see strong potential for enhancing ESG risk identification and mitigation,” said Samira Boussem, Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainability Investment at Flexstone Partners. “We expect that it will bring a new level of efficiency to our analysis.”

About Flexstone Partners

Flexstone Partners ("Flexstone") 6 is an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, one of the largest asset managers in the world with over $1,427 billion in assets under management. The company manages $10.6 billion in assets 7and offers institutional investors worldwide tailored investment and advisory services in private equity. Flexstone's strategies in co-investment and the secondary market primarily focus on small and mid-cap segments, growth equity, and emerging managers in the United States, Europe, and Asia. With over 56 experts based in New York, Paris, Geneva, and Singapore, Flexstone’s international team addresses the needs of its clients around the globe. Composed of a team of specialists with complementary profiles, Flexstone has in-depth market knowledge and unique expertise in private equity. It is present in the most promising markets across North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information: www.flexstonepartners.com

About SESAMm

SESAMm is a global leader in controversy data, leveraging advanced large language models and generative AI to uncover ESG, reputational, and supplier risks in seconds. Our AI-powered platform surfaces real-time insights, even in low-disclosure markets, on millions of companies and infrastructure projects, supporting more informed decisions, enhanced due diligence, and regulatory alignment at scale. We work with leading firms, including Carlyle, Warburg, Natixis, RBI, Sustainable Fitch, Oddo, and others. SESAMm has raised $50M from renowned investors and operates across four continents. Learn more at www.sesamm.com

SESAMm’s AI Technology Reveals ESG Insights

Discover unparalleled insights into ESG controversies, risks, and opportunities across industries. Learn more about how SESAMm can help you analyze millions of private and public companies using AI-powered text analysis tools.