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  • 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.

  • People Moves, 3 May: ING, JP Morgan Asset Management, Aviva, Impax, NEST ... and more

    03 May 2024
  • Proxy voting season a key opportunity to "accelerate impact", say investors

    03 May 2024

    The proxy voting season is a "key opportunity" for investors to take action on biodiversity, members of the Finance for Biodiversity initiative have said, as it announces it will develop guidance for voting on biodiversity.

  • Moody's maintains 2024 sustainable bond forecast despite strong start

    03 May 2024

    Moody's has retained its $950 billion sustainable bond issuance forecast for 2024 despite a strong start to the year amid expectations that challenging fixed income conditions will continue to be headwind for the market to reach a new record.

  • Much-criticised Green Asset Ratio 'not a complete failure', asset manager says

    03 May 2024

    The much-criticised Green Asset Ratio (GAR) reporting indicator for banks has already helped significantly increase transparency surrounding their financing of sustainable activities, and "is not a complete failure," according to La Française Asset Management.

  • Will AI be transformative for ESG data?

    03 May 2024

    The AI revolution is already transforming the ESG data landscape. But how much trust should we place in the bots, asks Peter Cripps