{"id":33636,"date":"2026-08-26T02:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.othellointernational.com\/ftse-faq-six-languages-english-seven-japanese\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T02:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:29:26","slug":"ftse-faq-six-languages-english-seven-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.othellointernational.com\/th\/ftse-faq-six-languages-english-seven-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE\u2019s Own FAQ Lists Six Research Languages in English and Seven in Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.obg{--r:#ED4036;--r1:#FF5046;--gold:#e0a93a;--ok:#3ddc84;--w:#fff;--w1:rgba(255,255,255,.85);--w2:rgba(255,255,255,.60);--w3:rgba(255,255,255,.42);--gl:rgba(255,255,255,.10);--card:linear-gradient(168deg,rgba(255,255,255,.055),rgba(255,255,255,.015));font-family:'Poppins',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,sans-serif;-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;box-sizing:border-box}\n.obg *,.obg *::before,.obg 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solid rgba(255,255,255,.1)!important;border-left:3px solid #ED4036!important;border-radius:14px!important;color:rgba(255,255,255,.85)!important}\n.oth-related p,.oth-related-reading p,.oth-related strong,.oth-related-reading strong,.oth-related b,.oth-related-reading b{color:#fff!important}\n.oth-related a,.oth-related-reading a{color:#FF5046!important}\n.oth-related li,.oth-related-reading li,.oth-related span,.oth-related-reading span{color:rgba(255,255,255,.85)!important}\n@media(max-width:640px){\n  .obg-toc ol{grid-template-columns:1fr}\n  .obg-quote p{font-size:19px}\n  .obg-band{padding:22px 20px}\n}\n<\/style>\n<p>Ratings methodology is not usually a translation story. This one is.<\/p>\n\n<p>FTSE Russell publishes a FAQ for the companies it researches \u2014 <em>ESG Scores and Indices \u2013 FAQ: Information for researched companies<\/em>. The current edition is <strong>v1.5, December 2025<\/strong>. Question 1.8 asks: <em>\u201cDo you only use English information?\u201d<\/em> For Thai ESG advisory work, ours included, it is the most-quoted line in the entire FTSE corpus, because it is the only place FTSE Russell says anything at all about language.<\/p>\n\n<p>On 26 August 2026 we pulled that FAQ in both its English and its Japanese edition and read question 1.8 side by side. <strong>They do not say the same thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<!--OBG-G--><div class=\"obg obg-toc\"><div class=\"obg-lb\">What this guide covers<\/div><ol><li><a href=\"#we-read-the-same-faq-twice-in-two-languages\">We read the same FAQ twice, in two languages<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#six-in-english-seven-in-japanese-and-an-etc\">Six in English, seven in Japanese, and an \u201cetc.\u201d<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#what-this-does-not-mean\">What this does not mean<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#what-it-does-mean-a-sourcing-risk-not-a-scoring-penalty\">What it does mean: a sourcing risk, not a scoring penalty<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#where-a-hard-language-gate-really-does-exist\">Where a hard language gate really does exist<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#two-clocks-and-one-that-has-already-stopped\">Two clocks, and one that has already stopped<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#what-to-do-before-30-september\">What to do before 30 September<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div><!--\/OBG-G-->\n\n<!--OBG-G--><div class=\"obg obg-stats\"><div class=\"obg-stat\"><div class=\"obg-sn\">6<\/div><div class=\"obg-sl\">languages listed in the English edition<\/div><\/div><div class=\"obg-stat\"><div class=\"obg-sn\">7<\/div><div class=\"obg-sl\">languages listed in the Japanese edition<\/div><\/div><div class=\"obg-stat\"><div class=\"obg-sn\">0<\/div><div class=\"obg-sl\">editions that list Thai<\/div><\/div><div class=\"obg-stat\"><div class=\"obg-sn\">8,500<span class=\"u\">+<\/span><\/div><div class=\"obg-sl\">companies researched globally<\/div><\/div><\/div><!--\/OBG-G-->\n\n<h2 id=\"we-read-the-same-faq-twice-in-two-languages\">We read the same FAQ twice, in two languages<\/h2>\n<p>Both files carry the same version number and the same month on the cover: <strong>v1.5, December 2025<\/strong>. Same document, same team, same purpose. The only variable is the language of the reader.<\/p>\n\n<p>The English edition answers question 1.8 like this, quoted in full:<\/p>\n\n<!--OBG-G--><div class=\"obg obg-quote\"><p>Although English is the commonly used business language, FTSE Russell recognizes the importance of local languages. Therefore provision has been made in the research process for other languages. The key languages covered are as follows: English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Chinese.<\/p><cite>FTSE Russell \u00b7 ESG Scores and Indices \u2013 FAQ, v1.5, December 2025, \u00a71.8 \u00b7 English edition<\/cite><\/div><!--\/OBG-G-->\n\n<p>Six languages. A closed list, with a full stop at the end. Now \u00a71.8 of the Japanese edition of the same v1.5:<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px;line-height:1.8;border-left:3px solid #ED4036;padding-left:20px;margin:26px 0\">\u4e3b\u306a\u5bfe\u5fdc\u8a00\u8a9e\u306f\u3001\u82f1\u8a9e\u3001\u30d5\u30e9\u30f3\u30b9\u8a9e\u3001\u30b9\u30da\u30a4\u30f3\u8a9e\u3001\u30c9\u30a4\u30c4\u8a9e\u3001<strong>\u30dd\u30eb\u30c8\u30ac\u30eb\u8a9e<\/strong>\u3001\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u3001\u4e2d\u56fd\u8a9e<strong>\u7b49<\/strong>\u3067\u3059\u3002<\/p>\n\n<p>Rendered into English: <em>\u201cThe main supported languages are English, French, Spanish, German, <strong>Portuguese<\/strong>, Japanese, Chinese, <strong>etc.<\/strong>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"six-in-english-seven-in-japanese-and-an-etc\">Six in English, seven in Japanese, and an \u201cetc.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Two differences, and both of them matter.<\/p>\n\n<p>First, the Japanese edition includes <strong>Portuguese<\/strong>. The English edition does not. Second \u2014 the larger one \u2014 the Japanese sentence ends in <strong>\u7b49<\/strong>, the standard Japanese marker for <em>\u201cand so on\u201d<\/em>. That one character converts a closed list into an open one. The English edition carries no equivalent word, and no equivalent hedge.<\/p>\n\n<p>The explanation is almost certainly mundane. FTSE Russell\u2019s previous FAQ \u2014 the <em>ESG Rating FAQ for Constituents<\/em>, March 2022 \u2014 answered the same question with a <strong>seven<\/strong>-language list that did include Portuguese. Somewhere between 2022 and December 2025 the English edition was revised and Portuguese was dropped. The Japanese edition appears to have carried the older list forward unamended. This is a documentation-maintenance gap, not a conspiracy.<\/p>\n\n<p>But the consequence is real: <strong>which version of the rule you believe depends on which language you read it in.<\/strong> That is precisely the failure mode we are retained to prevent in the opposite direction \u2014 in a 56-1 One Report, a sustainability report, a green bond framework. <a href=\"\/th\/esg-translation-risk\/\">Version drift between language editions<\/a> is not a cosmetic problem. It is a factual one, and here it has happened to the rater.<\/p>\n\n<!--OBG-G--><div class=\"obg obg-tw\"><table class=\"obg-table\"><thead><tr><th><\/th><th class=\"hi\">English edition v1.5<\/th><th class=\"\">Japanese edition v1.5<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><th>Cover version<\/th><td class=\"hi\">v1.5, December 2025<\/td><td class=\"\">v1.5, 2025\u5e7412\u6708<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Languages listed<\/th><td class=\"hi\"><b>6<\/b><\/td><td class=\"\"><b>7<\/b><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Portuguese<\/th><td class=\"hi\"><span class=\"obg-no\">Absent<\/span><\/td><td class=\"\"><span class=\"obg-yes\">Present<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>List left open<\/th><td class=\"hi\"><span class=\"obg-no\">\u0e44\u0e21\u0e48\u0e21\u0e35<\/span> \u2014 closed<\/td><td class=\"\"><span class=\"obg-yes\">\u0e21\u0e35<\/span> \u2014 \u7b49 \u201cetc.\u201d<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22<\/th><td class=\"hi\"><span class=\"obg-no\">Not listed<\/span><\/td><td class=\"\"><span class=\"obg-no\">Not listed<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><!--\/OBG-G-->\n\n<h2 id=\"what-this-does-not-mean\">What this does not mean<\/h2>\n<p>We want to be careful here, because this finding gets overstated across the Thai market \u2014 and we have overstated it ourselves in the past.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>It does not mean FTSE Russell refuses Thai-language disclosure.<\/strong> No FTSE document says that. The binding methodology \u2014 the <em>ESG Data Model Methodology<\/em> v1.2 \u2014 is silent on language entirely, as are the <em>FTSE4Good Thailand Index Ground Rules<\/em>, which are the most Thailand-specific FTSE documents in existence. The language list lives only in a non-binding FAQ, and one edition of that FAQ explicitly leaves it open-ended. The word is <em>\u201ckey\u201d<\/em> languages, not <em>\u201conly\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>It does not mean Thai companies are being marked down.<\/strong> The opposite is on the public record. SET\u2019s published figures for the 2025 assessment round show <strong>222 Thai listed companies averaging 3.6 out of 5.0<\/strong> on the FTSE ESG model, up from 3.0 the year before, with Governance averaging 4.5. Thai scores are rising, not being suppressed \u2014 and any client can find that in one search.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>And there is no study behind the strong claim.<\/strong> There is no peer-reviewed research establishing a language penalty in ESG ratings. We have searched for it repeatedly and it does not exist. Anyone citing one is citing something that is not there.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"what-it-does-mean-a-sourcing-risk-not-a-scoring-penalty\">What it does mean: a sourcing risk, not a scoring penalty<\/h2>\n<p>So what is the honest version? It rests on how the score is actually assembled.<\/p>\n\n<!--OBG-G--><div class=\"obg obg-facts\"><div class=\"obg-fact\"><div class=\"obg-fh\">Public disclosure only<\/div><p>FTSE scores from published documents \u2014 annual report, sustainability report, company website. <b>No questionnaire is sent<\/b>, and private submissions are not accepted.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"obg-fact\"><div class=\"obg-fh\">A researcher has to find it<\/div><p>Around <b>125 of 300+ indicators<\/b> apply per company, each a yes\/no test against evidence someone must locate, read and credit.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"obg-fact\"><div class=\"obg-fh\">Two to four weeks, no extensions<\/div><p>The company review window is fixed. FTSE states it is <b>\u201cunable to accommodate extensions\u201d<\/b> across 8,500+ companies.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"obg-fact\"><div class=\"obg-fh\">You must supply page numbers<\/div><p>To correct an assessment, FTSE asks for <b>\u201cthe URL and the page number\u201d<\/b> of the disclosure it missed \u2014 not a narrative.<\/p><\/div><\/div><!--\/OBG-G-->\n\n<p>Put those together and the exposure is <em>evidentiary<\/em>, not punitive. An indicator is met only if a researcher finds the disclosure and credits it. Evidence sitting only in a language that the research process does not name among those it covers is <strong>likelier to go unfound<\/strong> \u2014 and your remedy is a two-to-four-week window in which you must hand over a URL and a page number.<\/p>\n\n<p>That is the defensible claim, and the only one we make: a covered-language edition <strong>reduces the risk that disclosure you have already made goes uncredited<\/strong>. It does not \u201cearn\u201d the score, and it does not raise a score by itself. Language is not an indicator. <a href=\"\/th\/ftse-english-disclosure\/\">The English edition is simply the version most likely to be read<\/a> \u2014 and that is enough of an argument without inflating it.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"where-a-hard-language-gate-really-does-exist\">Where a hard language gate really does exist<\/h2>\n<p>There is one point in this chain where a language rule is not a matter of interpretation at all \u2014 and it is not in FTSE\u2019s own documents.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the same FAQ, FTSE Russell states plainly that <em>\u201cCDP information is material to a company\u2019s ESG Score.\u201d<\/em> CDP, in turn, sets a hard gate in its Terms of Disclosure, \u00a712.3:<\/p>\n\n<!--OBG-G--><div class=\"obg obg-quote\"><p>CDP recommends that wherever possible you respond in English. However, the following languages may also be used to submit your Response: Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese or Spanish. If you submit your Response in any other language, your Response will not be scored.<\/p><cite>CDP \u00b7 Terms of Disclosure, \u00a712.3<\/cite><\/div><!--\/OBG-G-->\n\n<p>Thai is not on that list. A Thai-language CDP response <strong>is not scored<\/strong> \u2014 and the resulting gap feeds a rating input that FTSE Russell itself calls material to your ESG Score. Unlike the FAQ language list, this is a published rule with an explicit stated consequence.<\/p>\n\n<p>So the sharpest language exposure for a SET-listed company is not the One Report at all. It is the CDP response, where the rule is written down, the consequence is automatic, and Thai is expressly outside the set. If you report to CDP, that is the first place to look.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"two-clocks-and-one-that-has-already-stopped\">Two clocks, and one that has already stopped<\/h2>\n<p>While we were in the primary documents, we checked two mechanics that catch out almost every Thai issuer we speak to.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>The first is a fiscal-year trap.<\/strong> LSEG\u2019s <em>Guide to FTSE and Third Party Sustainable Investment Data<\/em> (August 2026) states that a company\u2019s annual report, sustainability report and other ESG information <em>\u201cneeds to be published with the same fiscal year for an ESG score to be updated ahead of an index review.\u201d<\/em> Thai issuers routinely file a 56-1 One Report for one year alongside a standalone sustainability report still covering the prior year. On FTSE\u2019s rule, that mismatch means the score is <strong>not updated at all<\/strong> \u2014 the review is forfeited silently, with no failure notice.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>The second is that Climate runs on a different clock.<\/strong> The widely-quoted deadline is <strong>30 September<\/strong>, the last date a disclosure can be published and still count for the December index review. That is correct \u2014 and for December 2026 it is about five weeks away. But it does not govern the Climate theme. Climate is the one theme of the fourteen not scored by counting indicators: FTSE derives it from the <strong>TPI Management Quality score plus emissions relative to peers<\/strong>, and LSEG states MQ scores <em>\u201care updated annually and are based on reports published by the last business day of March.\u201d<\/em> Anything you publish in September moves your other thirteen themes. It cannot move Climate.<\/p>\n\n<p>LSEG also confirms that FTSE Russell indices using MQ data <strong>migrate from version 4.0 to version 5.0 of the TPI MQ methodology in September 2026<\/strong> \u2014 this month. Climate scores can therefore shift on methodology alone. If you sit in a Primary Impact subsector, this is the theme with the genuine hurdle, and <a href=\"\/th\/tgo-carbon-to-ftse-disclosure\/\">independently verified Scope 1 and 2 data is the gating item<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<!--OBG-G--><div class=\"obg obg-flow\"><div class=\"obg-step\"><div class=\"obg-snum\">1<\/div><div class=\"obg-sh\">Last business day of March<\/div><div class=\"obg-sp\">Cut-off for the reports feeding TPI Management Quality \u2014 the input to your Climate theme score.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"obg-step\"><div class=\"obg-snum\">2<\/div><div class=\"obg-sh\">September 2026<\/div><div class=\"obg-sp\">TPI MQ methodology migrates from v4.0 to v5.0. Climate scores can move on methodology alone.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"obg-step\"><div class=\"obg-snum\">3<\/div><div class=\"obg-sh\">30 September 2026<\/div><div class=\"obg-sp\">Last date a disclosure can be published and still count for the December index review.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"obg-step\"><div class=\"obg-snum\">4<\/div><div class=\"obg-sh\">First weekend of October<\/div><div class=\"obg-sp\">Review invitations go out. The window is two to four weeks, and extensions are refused.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"obg-step\"><div class=\"obg-snum\">5<\/div><div class=\"obg-sh\">December 2026<\/div><div class=\"obg-sp\">FTSE4Good Thailand\u2019s first-ever review, and the first public FTSE ESG Scores for Thai companies.<\/div><\/div><\/div><!--\/OBG-G-->\n\n<h2 id=\"what-to-do-before-30-september\">What to do before 30 September<\/h2>\n<p>The FTSE4Good Thailand thresholds are published and specific: an <strong>ESG Score of 2.9 or above<\/strong> to be added, <strong>2.4 or above<\/strong> to stay in, and a <strong>Climate Change theme score of 3<\/strong> for Primary Impact subsectors \u2014 cement, chemicals, refining, iron and steel, conventional electricity \u2014 or <strong>1<\/strong> for Secondary Impact, which covers banks, property and most REITs.<\/p>\n\n<!--OBG-G--><div class=\"obg obg-take\"><div class=\"obg-lb\">Key takeaways<\/div><ul><li>Publish before <b>30 September<\/b>. After that it waits for the June 2027 review, whatever it says.<\/li><li>If you report to <b>CDP<\/b>, respond in a language CDP scores \u2014 a Thai response is not scored at all, and CDP data feeds your FTSE score.<\/li><li>Check that your One Report and your sustainability report cover the <b>same fiscal year<\/b> \u2014 a mismatch forfeits the update silently.<\/li><li>Make sure FTSE can reach you: with no IR or sustainability contact published, <b>you cannot be invited to review your own assessment<\/b>.<\/li><li>Build a <b>URL-and-page-number index<\/b> of your disclosure now, so the two-week window is an afternoon of work rather than a scramble.<\/li><li>In a Primary Impact subsector, treat <b>independently verified Scope 1 and 2 data<\/b> as the binding constraint on Climate.<\/li><\/ul><\/div><!--\/OBG-G-->\n\n<!--OBG-G--><div class=\"obg obg-band\"><h4>Find out what your English edition is actually saying<\/h4><p>FTSE scores you from what its researchers can find and read \u2014 no questionnaire, and a short window to prove something was missed. Run the free Gap Audit and see, theme by theme, what your published disclosure currently supports.<\/p><a class=\"obg-cta\" href=\"\/th\/ftse-disclosure-gap-audit\/\">\u0e17\u0e14\u0e25\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e43\u0e0a\u0e49 Gap Audit \u0e1f\u0e23\u0e35<\/a><\/div><!--\/OBG-G-->\n\n<p>We publish this one slightly against our own commercial interest. The strong version of the language argument \u2014 that Thai disclosure is ignored, that a theme thin in English scores zero \u2014 is not supported by FTSE\u2019s rulebook, and we no longer make it. What the rulebook does support is narrower and more useful: FTSE scores you from what its researchers can locate in the public domain, on a fixed calendar, with a short and unextendable right of reply. Everything you publish is either findable evidence or it is not.<\/p>\n\n<p>That is a document-control problem before it is a translation problem, which is exactly why the two belong in one workflow. <a href=\"\/th\/clause-mapped-bilingual-one-report\/\">See how we clause-map the two editions &rarr;<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/th\/esg-ratings-compared\/\">compare what each rater actually says about language &rarr;<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/th\/technical-translation\/\">or start with the ISO 17100 process behind the English edition &rarr;<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:rgba(255,255,255,.5)\"><em>Sources, all read at primary source on 26 August 2026: FTSE Russell, ESG Scores and Indices \u2013 FAQ v1.5, December 2025, English and Japanese editions, \u00a7\u00a71.6, 1.8, 1.9, 1.19; FTSE Russell, ESG Rating FAQ for Constituents, March 2022, \u00a711; LSEG, Guide to FTSE and Third Party Sustainable Investment Data used in FTSE Indices, August 2026, \u00a72.8.3; FTSE Russell, ESG Data Model Methodology v1.2, June 2026; FTSE4Good Thailand Index Ground Rules v1.0, June 2026, \u00a76.3; CDP, Terms of Disclosure, \u00a712.3. Thai score distribution as published by SET; FTSE Russell has not published a Thailand-specific comparison.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTSE Russell\u2019s company FAQ v1.5 lists six research languages in its English edition and seven \u2014 plus \u201cetc.\u201d \u2014 in its Japanese edition. Same document, same version, same month. Thai is on neither list. What that actually means for SET-listed disclosure before 30 September.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","rank_math_title":"FTSE Lists 6 Research Languages in English, 7 in Japanese | Othello","rank_math_description":"FTSE Russell\u2019s FAQ v1.5 names six research languages in English and seven in Japanese. Thai is on neither list. 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