The world has reached a tipping point where the trend towards sustainability has become irreversible. But how can investment banks ensure that their clients are not ‘greenwashing’ to access funding?
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ADB urges greater action on climate change
May 18, 2023The Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting focused on the threat of climate change and provided real solutions and the steps that must be taken to prevent the situation worsening.

Lending in a landscape of uncoordinated climate policies
September 23, 2022With the stringency of climate policy varying from one country to the next, how are banks taking advantage of this lack of coordination?

Werner Hoyer: Decarbonisation a security issue
September 23, 2022The European Investment Bank can play a vital role in drawing investment to projects that diversify Europe’s energy supplies.

Banks need to act now on disclosing climate risk
June 1, 2022Disclosing climate risks is a new aspect of regulation that banks are coming to terms with, but lenders need to act now to avoid falling further behind as regulators ramp up their focus on ESG issues.

EBRD climate chief addresses the difficulty in moving away from gas
May 27, 2022Harry Boyd-Carpenter, managing director, green economy and climate action at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, speaks to Burhan Khadbai about the bank’s climate strategy, what it classifies as green investments, the role of gas and the impact of the war in Ukraine on the sustainability transition.

Eurozone banks under fire for poor climate risk disclosures
May 23, 2022Lenders from the eurozone face increasing pressure and possible enforcement action for failing to meet the European Central Bank’s climate risk disclosure expectations.

Portugal’s banks in good shape as they brace for economic fallout
May 17, 2022Resilience gained through the painful post-global financial crisis restructuring has helped Portugal’s banks emerge from the pandemic with stable capital ratios, improved asset quality and ample liquidity.

Turkish banks weathering the storm
April 29, 2022Turkey’s banks are coping well with the financial, digital, economic and geopolitical risks confronting them

Turkey’s banking sector looks to the bright side
April 28, 2022Sustainable finance and digitalisation helping to keep Turkey’s bankers positive