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  • ESG-dilutive acquisitions becoming a 'deal-breaker'

    05 May 2023

    M&A deals are no longer just about earnings per share, Trisha Taneja tells Ahren Lester

  • Banks call on EU to provide transition plan guidelines

    05 May 2023

    Banks have called on the EU to catch-up with other jurisdictions - in particular, the UK and Japan - by providing guidance on transition plans and finance.

  • Investors hail 'momentous' High Seas Treaty

    06 March 2023

    Financiers welcomed the "milestone" UN agreement to protect a third of the High Seas by 2030, but cautioned that further action is needed to ensure it achieves its goals.

  • Rebuttable presumptions rebutted in comment letters to EFRAG

    30 August 2022

    Concerns over the rebuttable presumptions approach to reporting in the draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) diluting the quality of reporting and overburdening entities...

  • DB: Combat nature-related market failure risk with SMEs

    17 August 2022

    Finance needs to overhaul its approach to nature-related risks to tackle the increasing risk of market failure, an executive at Deutsche Bank has said.

  • Australian regulator launches anti-greenwashing fund guidance

    14 June 2022

    The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched guidance for sustainability-related products to combat what it called the "growing risk of greenwashing".

  • Deutsche Bank industry loans responsible for 30.8m tonnes of CO2 in 2021

    04 March 2022

    Deutsche Bank calculated that its corporate industry loan book financed 30.8 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year (MtCO2e/y) in 2021.