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  • SDCL's UK solar portfolio sold for £90.8m

    07 May 2024
  • Budget a key barrier to implementation of TNFD, says Iceberg Data Lab

    07 May 2024

    Financial institutions are 'delusional' if they are not reallocating budget towards nature reporting and data, Iceberg Data Lab has warned, adding that those waiting for open-source data may be disappointed.

  • Fidelity launches social and sustainable bond funds

    07 May 2024

    Fidelity International has launched two sustainable bond funds, including one focused on social bonds.

  • Majority in favour of universal SFDR disclosures, creation of 'transition' category

    07 May 2024

    Respondents to a European Commission consultation on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) indicated a preference for extending sustainability disclosure requirements to all financial products and introducing a system for categorising investment funds that would include a 'transition' category.

  • Kenya planning $500m sovereign SLB in 2024

    07 May 2024

    Kenya is planning to raise $500 million from a ground-breaking sovereign sustainability-linked bond (SLB) in late 2024.

  • Sustainability-linked loan decline accelerates in 2024

    07 May 2024

    Borrowing through sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) has continued to fall sharply in the first four months of 2024, accelerating the decline for the performance-based instrument experienced in 2023

  • Will AI be transformative for ESG data? Part two

    06 May 2024

    The second part of this feature exploring how the AI revolution could transform the ESG data landscape, looks at how AI can be used to generate actionable insights and where it will go next. Peter Cripps reports

  • Korea publishes ISSB-based draft disclosure standards

    03 May 2024
  • AI can help combat ESG backlash, says deVere's Green

    03 May 2024

    AI could play a key role in combatting the ESG backlash witnessed in some parts of the US through more rigorous and nuanced analysis, says Nigel Green, CEO of international financial advisory group deVere Group.

  • Danish regulator orders investment managers to address sustainability 'deficiencies'

    03 May 2024

    Denmark's Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) has ordered two investment managers to address what the regulator called "deficiencies" in how they accounted for sustainability risks in their processes.