Verification services

BlueMark offers a comprehensive suite of verification services designed to provide confidence and credibility in the impact market.

Communicate and enhance your impact performance

Align with expectations

Differentiate from peers

Reduce reputational risk

Align with evolving market expectations

We provide gap analyses and roadmaps based on existing regulatory requirements and industry standards to help our clients identify and prioritize key areas for improvement.

Differentiate from peers and learn from impact industry leaders

We provide data and benchmarks to help our clients understand how they stack up relative to peers and market norms, and learn how to right-size their impact management processes for improved efficiency and better decision-making. BlueMark also publishes an annual Practice Dashboard that shows the current rate of adoption for a range of impact management practices.

Reduce reputational risk and signal credibility

The BlueMark seal and verifier statement allows our clients to credibly communicate their impact approach and results.

What we offer

BlueMark evaluates and verifies how clients approach the impact of their investments based on accepted industry standards. We work with allocators, managers, and individual companies to rigorously analyze and benchmark their impact management and reporting practices.

Contact us to learn more about our verification services.

Fund ID™

The Fund ID assesses a fund’s impact credentials over four key pillars: Strategy, Governance, Management, and Reporting.

Fund ID provides asset managers with a shorthand to showcase their commitment to impact, and helps asset allocators to evaluate and compare the impact processes and performances of fund managers.

LEARN MORE.

Test your fund’s impact credentials with a free, 2-minute quiz → take the FUND ID PULSE.

Practice verification

Evaluate the strengths and gaps in your impact and ESG risk management system. Learn what you’re doing well and where you can grow with tailored action plans and benchmarks.

Reporting verification

Assess the completeness and reliability of your firm’s impact reporting. Work with BlueMark to strengthen the credibility and usability of your impact reports.

Impact assurance

Communicate the reliability and credibility of your reported impact data and/or impact measurement methodology by engaging BlueMark’s limited assurance service. Assurance services include:

Sustainability Linked Loans
Impact-linked Finance
Impact-linked compensation
Impact and sustainability data assurance

What our clients say

BlueMark’s verification results and ratings have helped us immensely in communicating our differentiated approach to impact measurement to prospective investors. BlueMark’s recognized name and reputation in the market has helped certain LPs quickly understand how we approach ESG and impact and to diligence our strategy quickly.

Nuveen

Our engagement with BlueMark has been an important part of our ability to both benchmark and improve our impact management efforts over time. The team brings a unique perspective of what is common and best practice in the impact marketplace and we have benefited from this insight.

KKR

BlueMark helped us do three things: corroborate our immediate development priorities, validate our approach to impact management, and identify areas for improvement to strengthen our approach as we mature as an organization. All three are important for us, especially as a young DFI committed to developing robust impact management practices.

FinDev Canada

Working together with the BlueMark team on the verification project has been an incredible learning opportunity for us. Their impact expertise and market intel helped us to receive a targeted and concrete understanding of the state of our IM approach; where do we do well and where can we do better.

Lightrock

Client list

See the complete list of clients who have worked with BlueMark across our verification and market intelligence services.

Verification portal

For existing verification clients, log in to the verification portal to complete the intake process.

Not sure where to start?

Every investment’s impact story is unique, but the guiding principles for a best-in-class approach are not. Our team can help you identify the right assessment for your specific objectives and stage.