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News Coverage on regulatory mandates, standards and challenges in ESG reporting and sustainability disclosures for financial and non-financial entities.
KYC & CDD
SWIFT Embeds ESG Due Diligence in KYC Registry
By Editors | 11/03/2021
The integration of the ICC’s Guidelines into SWIFT’s KYC Registry allows corporates to only complete and update a single form to provide ESG information to different banking partners.
Sustainable Finance
The ESG Interview: Asia Plots its Own Path
By ESG Investor | 11/03/2021
Mercer’s Alexis Cheang sees parallels and differences in the approaches of the region’s asset owners and policy-makers.
Sustainable Finance
MAS to Place $2bn With Green Asset Managers ‘Soon’
By Manesh Samtani | 09/03/2021
Ravi Menon said MAS has identified the asset managers who will participate in the Green Investments Programme announced in November 2019.
Climate Risk
PwC Offers ESG Risk Management Recommendations for Banks
By Manesh Samtani | 09/03/2021
Banks need to adopt training and change management programmes to ensure employees embrace ESG risk management as a requirement and discipline.
Reporting & Disclosures
IFRS Foundation Outlines Plans for Sustainability Reporting Board
By Editors | 08/03/2021
The Trustees remain on track to make a final determination about a new board in advance of the November 2021 United Nations COP26 conference.
Reporting & Disclosures
US SEC Forms Task Force to Pursue ESG-related Misconduct
By Editors | 08/03/2021
The task force’s initial focus will be to identify material gaps or misstatements in issuers’ disclosure of climate risks under existing rules.
Sustainable Finance
SGX Acquires Stake in Rubber Trading Platform HeveaConnect
By Ranamita Chakraborty | 08/03/2021
The investment will bolster HeveaConnect’s capability as a price discovery platform for sustainable natural rubber, in line with SGX’s recent focus on sustainability.
Reporting & Disclosures
EU: Delay to Finalised RTS Generates SFDR Uncertainty
By ESG Investor | 04/03/2021
Asset managers had hoped that finalised regulatory technical standards for Level 2 SFDR reporting would be available to assist preparations for Level 1 compliance.
Reporting & Disclosures
Japan FSA To Review ESG Fund Labelling Rules
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 04/03/2021
Discussions with asset managers and fund distributors may start by June to assess whether rules for mutual fund labels can guard against greenwashing.
Climate Risk
UK to Launch Post-Brexit Carbon Trading Scheme in May
By ESG Investor | 02/03/2021
The UK’s emissions trading scheme is “unlikely” to diverge too much from the EU’s regime, says Hæge Fjellheim, Head of Carbon Research at Refinitiv.
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