CLO compliance at speed

It’s the process of filtering issuers based on predefined environmental, social, and governance (ESG) or ethical criteria to determine investment eligibility. Octus Activity-Based Screening goes beyond standard ESG data to answer more targeted questions: Is this company directly involved in a given activity? What is the degree of that involvement? What revenue exposure does it represent?

CLO indentures carry rigid restrictions on controversial activities like tobacco, firearms and gambling. Activity-Based Screening pinpoints the type of involvement and, where applicable, the revenue percentage tied to each screen, so only the necessary investments are excluded and every investment stays within your mandated boundaries. This is the data clients need when screening against exclusion lists, internal investment policies or regulatory frameworks such as the EU Taxonomy or SFDR.

Users can screen against CLO indentures’ specific exclusions to automate precise compliance decisions and determine investment eligibility with confidence.

Users can screen against CLO indentures’ specific exclusions to automate precise compliance decisions and determine investment eligibility with confidence.

Yes, it’s the most common use case.

Octus already provides a broad ESG dataset across five areas: General, Environmental, Social, Governance and Financials. Activity-Based Screening adds a sixth, separate area structured differently from the rest. Rather than a single data point per issuer, it is built around specific activities within each KPI, giving users a more granular, actionable view of issuer exposure.