Recent turmoil has once again returned attention to the central role of banking supervisors in changing banking for good.

Issues around transparency and disclosures, as well as greenwashing allegations, are putting pressure on purchasers of carbon credits to decarbonise more and lower their own emissions, rather than buying offsets.

With ESG becoming more top of mind, and litigation and regulatory enforcements on the rise, is it any wonder that bank heads of litigation and legal counsel are finding it difficult to sleep at night? 

Canadian banks consider climate change a critical issue of our time. However, climate activists lament what they perceive as a lack of action. 

Firms long for convergence around a single regime, but we’re not quite there yet.

Banks don’t intend to to exacerbate the cost-of-living crisis, but by not providing services to many people who are seen as ‘high risk’, this is exactly what is happening.

Collaboration from all sections of the financial market must happen now if the world is to hit carbon targets and avert climate breakdown, says NZAOA chair Günther Thallinger.

Philippa Nuttall summarises leading financial figures’ comments from the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris.

The deputy governor of the National Bank of Rwanda talks to The Banker about the central bank’s drive to increase the financial inclusion of women and its plans to have equal access by 2027.

Pledges and greenwashing regulation are a distraction from concrete divestment targets, says economist Hans Stegeman.