{"id":561875,"date":"2023-03-13T09:42:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=561875"},"modified":"2023-03-13T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T05:24:15","slug":"msci-esg-research-flags-governance-risks-at-adani-group-changes-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/msci-esg-research-flags-governance-risks-at-adani-group-changes-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"MSCI ESG Research flags governance risks at Adani Group, changes assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSCI ESG Research said on Friday it recently changed some of its environmental, social and governance assessments of Adani Group entities, after the Indian conglomerate was caught up in a short-selling storm in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Seven listed Adani Group companies lost over $100 billion in market value combined after a Jan. 24 report by Hindenburg Research alleged stock manipulation and improper use of tax havens, and flagged concerns over debt levels. Adani has rejected the concerns and denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On March 3, we downgraded our assessment of the Hindenburg-related controversy cases to &#8216;moderate&#8217; from &#8216;minor&#8217; following new developments in the relevant cases,&#8221; MSCI ESG Research said in a statement to Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSCI ESG Research said on Friday it recently changed some of its environmental, social and governance assessments of Adani Group entities, after the Indian conglomerate was caught up in a short-selling storm in recent weeks. Seven listed Adani Group companies lost over $100 billion in market value combined after a Jan. 24 report by Hindenburg Research alleged stock manipulation and improper use of tax havens, and flagged concerns over debt levels. Adani has rejected the concerns and denied any wrongdoing. &#8220;On March 3, we downgraded our assessment of the Hindenburg-related controversy cases to &#8216;moderate&#8217; from &#8216;minor&#8217; following new developments in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}