Tag: ESG

Financial advisory group deVere has doubled its commitment to positioning assets into ESG investments to $2bn within five years.

New Zealand has become the first country globally to pass laws requiring banks, insurers and investment managers to disclose the impact of climate change on their companies.

Virgin Money has signed a new deal with mortgage insight provider Hometrack to secure greater insights into the potential impact of climate change on its portfolio.

A recent blogpost by financial industry association Mobey Forum has examined how the movement to make finance more sustainable is changing the banking industry.

Virgin Money has introduced a new app focused on providing an assessment of a companies’ ESG impacts by measuring, tracking and offering guidance.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published in 2022 Annual Work Programme to set out what it intends to work on over the next 12 months.

The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has warned of the escalating risk of a price bubble in environmentally-friendly-focused asset markets.

A barometer measuring the climate risk preparedness of the global banks and asset managers has found a lot still needs to be done in terms of practical implementation.

The Philippines’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is planning to make sustainability reporting mandatory for all companies that are listed by 2023.

A new regulation by Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) may lead to the introduction of mandatory climate-risk related disclosures by March 2022.