The European Commission says it may completely rethink its SFDR transparency framework for the sustainability of investment funds. Will ripping up the rules and starting again make matters worse? The post After two years of complaints about EU’s fund sustainability regulations, financial institutions are queasy about impending reform appeared first on VitalBriefing.

The European Commission says it may completely rethink its SFDR transparency framework for the sustainability of investment funds. Will ripping up the rules and starting again make matters worse? The post After two years of complaints about EU’s fund sustainability regulations, financial institutions are queasy about impending reform appeared first on VitalBriefing.

On October 24, 2023, the US federal banking regulators finalized interagency principles for the effective management and supervision of climate-related financial risks (the “Climate Principles”).1 The Climate Principles are targeted at larger banking organizations and are intended to convey consistent supervisory expectations regarding how climate-related financial risks should be managed. The US federal banking regulators had separately proposed the Climate Principles…

Global North remains ahead on collaborative efforts, but African investors prioritise social risks in investment approaches.  New research and guidance for the financial sector on tackling modern slavery puts Global South investors and people with lived experience of slavery in the conversation for the first time.  The research is based on in-depth interviews with 40 investors from Africa, South-East Asia…

Proposed reporting rules shelved and UK listing barriers lowered as government scrambles to attract businesses.   The scrapping of a bill that would have strengthened corporate governance reporting requirements for UK companies has investors and policy experts questioning what this means for broader reform ambitions.  The plans were originally set out in July, proposing that businesses with a turnover of…