After a long run of seeming ESG ascendance, recently it feels like there's been noticeable backsliding in the name of shareholder primacy and political divisions. A new survey released by HSBC found ...

Sustainability has become huge focal points for the legions of investment bankers, acquisitive CEOs and private equity firms ...

The Joint Bank Reporting Committee recently published its Work Programme for 2026, outlining the primary priorities and deliverables designed to harmonise the European banking sector.In parallel with ...

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The new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive the “CSRD” was adopted by the EU in April 2021 to meet its Paris Agreement climate change goals. In scope companies (which includes those admitted ...

As demand for ESG data grows, so does the opportunity for accountants to help businesses meet reporting requirements. The increasing demand for sustainability data presents an opportunity for ...

As initiatives to mitigate climate risk grow, financial regulators around the world are responding with a host of requirements, designed to help banks and other financial institutions navigate the ...

As we enter 2025, ESG compliance is continuing to become a strategically important mandatory regulatory requirement for businesses. Despite some ESG backlashes in the political arena both in the US ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an attorney who writes about ESG policy, laws, and regulations. On January 24, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European ...

This will be a positive for banks which are no longer required to report on ESG but significantly complicate disclosures for those still in scope ...

A central component to unlocking change at the scale needed is for the regulatory framework to enable the procurement and disclosure of high-quality, comparable environmental, social and governance ...