Climate Risk

    Reporting on regulatory responses, risk management practices, and financial impacts of climate-related risks, including physical and transitional risks.

    Climate Risk

    ABS Launches Environmental Risk Questionnaire for Banks

    By Editors | 21/04/2022

    The ABS has launched an industry standard template to help banks engage corporate clients in the assessment and mitigation of environmental risk issues.

    Emerging Prudential Risks

    FSB Warns of Emerging Vulnerabilities, Financial Stability Risks

    By Manesh Samtani | 21/04/2022

    Global financial stability cannot be taken for granted going forward, FSB Chair Klaas Knot said in a letter to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors.

    Reporting & Disclosures

    WFE Publishes Paper on Human Rights Disclosure Practices

    By Editors | 19/04/2022

    The paper addresses social washing concerns and offers guidance for exchanges on reporting against human-rights related reporting frameworks.

    Climate Risk

    SBTi Offers Guidance to FIs on Setting Net Zero Targets

    By Editors | 19/04/2022

    SBTi’s new paper provides principles, definitions, metrics, and target formulation considerations for FIs to set quantitative net-zero targets.

    Climate Risk

    FSA Issues Guidance to Japanese FIs on Using NGFS Scenarios

    By Editors | 19/04/2022

    The guidance will help Japanese financial institutions use of the NGFS scenarios to conduct climate-related financial risk analysis, the FSA said.

    Reporting & Disclosures

    Canada to Require Climate Disclosures for FIs from 2024

    By Editors | 14/04/2022

    The OSFI will consult financial institutions on climate disclosures guidelines that will phase in mandatory TCFD-aligned reporting beginning in 2024.

    Sustainable Finance

    SGX Set to List First ETF Based on New Low Carbon Index

    By Editors | 12/04/2022

    The ETF will allow investors to buy just one unit at a time, a feature aimed at attracting investment from younger and newer investors.

    Reporting & Disclosures

    IIGCC Offers Ratios to Track Portfolios’ Climate Impact

    By ESG Investor | 12/04/2022

    A new report by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change provides guidance to asset owners on closing the net zero investment gap.

    ESG Data

    IMF Updates Climate Change Indicators Dashboard

    By Editors | 12/04/2022

    Major updates to the dashboard include introducing new indicators as well as updating data for the existing indicators.

    Climate Risk

    Financial Institutions Underestimating Climate Risk: IPCC Report

    By Editors | 07/04/2022

    Transparency alone is insufficient to drive the required asset reallocation in the absence of clear regulatory frameworks, the report says.

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