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  • $500m real estate green loan agreed in Singapore

    19 May 2020

    Singaporean property manager GuocoLand has agreed a SGD730 million ($515 million) green loan for the construction of a residential and commercial development.

  • Nomura pursuing improvements in Japanese impact reporting

    18 May 2020

    Nomura is planning to engage more with Japanese listed companies to ask them to disclose sustainability information, according to the manager of its Global Sustainable Equity fund.

  • S&P Global ESG Scores launched

    18 May 2020

    S&P Global has increased its presence in the increasingly competitive ESG data market, with the launch of its proprietary 'S&P Global ESG Scores'.

  • Exclusive: BlackRock partners with Rhodium to model climate risk

    07 May 2020

    BlackRock is to partner with research firm Rhodium Group to provide data on the physical impacts of climate change.

  • ISS ESG creates impact rating system

    05 May 2020

    ISS ESG has devised a system by which it will rate companies' management of their positive and negative contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • ShareAction: Banks 'tinkering around the edges' in response to climate change

    28 April 2020

    Danske Bank and Intesa Sanpaolo have been named as the 'laggards' of the biggest European banks when it comes tackling climate change.

  • Morningstar takes full control of Sustainalytics

    21 April 2020

    Financial services firm Morningstar has agreed to buy the 60% of Sustainalytics that it does not already own, in a deal that values the ESG research and ratings provider at €170 million ($184 million).

  • A principled approach to impact

    16 April 2020

    The Operating Principles for Impact are set to bring increased transparency to impact investing, the IFC's Neil Gregory tells Michael Hurley, on the first anniversary of their launch.

  • EC study seeks industry input on ESG investment data

    15 April 2020

    A research study, commissioned by the European Commission, into the provision and use of sustainable investment data, ratings and research is now calling on senior staff in the asset management industry and in listed companies to share their ideas and experience. By completing a questionnaire, participants will be supporting a charitable donation to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • The ESG data files, part nine: Biodiversity - the new frontier

    07 April 2020

    Various initiatives from the financial sector could make this a breakthrough year for biodiversity data, ahead of a hoped-for global agreement on conservation for the next decade. Graham Cooper reports