ASI, Interfax, Social Capital agree to cooperate on disclosure of nonfinancial information
ST. PETERSBURG. June 4 (Interfax) - The Agency for Strategic Initiatives and Promotion of New Projects (ASI), Interfax Group and nonprofit Obschestvenny Kapital, or Social Capital have agreed on practical steps to publicize and promote the Business Social Capital Standard and organize efficient disclosure of Russian companies' nonfinancial information.
The agreement was signed by Social Capital CEO Asiyat Bagatyrova, Interfax Group Chairman Mikhail Komissar and ASI CEO Svetlana Chupsheva in a ceremony at the 2026 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Interfax, as an accredited agent of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) for disclosure of information on the stock market, plans to create opportunities for issuers to disclose nonfinancial indicators in machine readable form, aggregate and publicize this information through the Interfax Corporation Information Disclosure Center (CIDC, e-disclosure.ru), the Standardized Nonfinancial Information Disclosure Service (esg-disclosure.ru) and the SPARK-Interfax analytics system.
Reporting disclosed through the CIDC (e-disclosure.ru) will be posted on the Social Capital Digital Platform.
Social Capital, in turn, will use the SPARK-Interfax system for disclosing information about organizations that meet the Standard.
The parties also agreed to hold joint publicity events to promote the Standard.
"The Business Social Capital Standard is a key element in the system for assessing a company's contribution to Russia's development. I am very pleased that today we expanded the community of its ambassadors and agreed on concrete mechanisms to publicize the Standard. Our joint objective is to have the whole country know about companies that work on achieving the Russian Federation's national development goals, help to improve the quality of life of their workers and their families and the country's citizens in general, as well as create a healthy environment around them," Chupsheva said.
"The Business Social Capital Standard for the first time established a common approach to preparing and disclosing nonfinancial information. The emergence of such a standard is an important development for consumers of corporate information, providing the possibility to expand the range of information on sustainable development risks, obtain more comparable nonfinancial data on companies, and actively develop new analytical models. We are interested in actively expanding cooperation in this area in order to ensure the broader adoption of the Standard in business practices," Komissar said.
"Cooperation with Interfax is part of the work we are doing to develop and automate the Social Capital digital platform. The integration of our digital platforms will make it possible to increase control over the reliability of information provided by companies and accelerate verification. This will also simplify the task for issuers, who will have to start disclosing data, including on Business Social Capital Standard indicators, in 2027 in line with Bank of Russia requirements," Bagatyrova said.
Interfax, as an accredited agent of the CBR, discloses the information 6,400 Russian joint-stock companies and public joint-stock companies, and supports the publicly accessible channels for corporate information disclosure e-disclosure.ru and esg-disclosure.ru. The SPARK-Interfax information and analytics system contains information about all legal entities and individual entrepreneurs registered in Russia, processing about 300 different sources of corporate information.
