Peter Cripps

Belgian regulator hopes SFDR review leads to labelling scheme

A senior figure at Belgium's financial regulator said she hopes the EU's fund disclosure rules are reimagined as a labelling scheme.

$15trn of investors back PRI's deforestation engagement initiative

Investors including UBS and APG have joined the Principles for Responsible Investment's (PRI) newly launched nature engagement initiative, SPRING, which will target 40 companies globally on their deforestation lobbying activities.

Disclosure frameworks are hyped up, says JP Morgan in speech disrupted by climate protester

Policy makers need to "get real" about enabling the transition, instead of being "overly obsessed with disclosures", warned JP Morgan, in a panel discussion which was interrupted by a shouting climate protester.

T Rowe Price elected to Principles ExCom

T Rowe Price has been elected to the executive committee (ExCom) of the Principles, which are widely used as best practice guidelines for the sustainable bond market.

AI will be game changer for emerging markets and private equity data, predicts investor

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be "a game changer" for ESG data, particularly when it comes to emerging markets and privately held companies, according to one investor.

Bloomberg to host CSRD data on terminal

Bloomberg is to launch a new offering to provide access to the ESG data companies will report under EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

Persefoni adds First Street's physical risk data

Searchlight and Ares invest £500m in RSK

Head of Green Finance Institute calls for 'forceful stewardship'

The head of the UK's Green Finance Institute has called on investors to be "forceful" in their engagement with companies.

Sustainalytics updates ESG Risk Ratings