Archive

  • People Moves, 9 May: Standard Chartered, HSBC Asset Management, Climate Impact Partners ... and more

    09 May 2025

  • 'Calm down, have a cup of tea', says FCA head as he predicts more labelled funds

    01 May 2025

    The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)'s sustainable finance head has urged critics of its sustainability fund labelling and naming rules to "calm down", as he said the rules had reduced greenwashing, and promised many more funds were preparing to use labels.

  • SDR brings long waits for authorisation and little hope it will drive inflows, survey reveals

    01 May 2025

    Fund managers seeking use of a UK sustainability label face an "authorisation process ... [of] longer than 20 weeks" in some cases, with many firms abandoning their plans after beginning the process, results of a survey revealed.

  • FCA asks ESG ratings providers to help it draw up regulation

    26 March 2025

  • People Moves, 21 March: EQT, Transition Finance Council, Danske Bank, EIFO ... and more

    21 March 2025

  • The impact of SDR goes deeper than its four sustainability labels

    20 March 2025

    The FCA's Sustainability Disclosure Requirements regime is helping purge the fund market, writes Jennifer Forrest

  • UK regulators abandon plans for diversity and inclusion rules

    13 March 2025

  • UK's sustainability rules no barrier to investment in defence, FCA says

    11 March 2025

    The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said its sustainability rules do not prevent investment in, or finance of, defence companies - days after a group of politicians urged changes to remove "unnecessary barriers" linked to financial institutions' ESG policies.

  • Which of the UK's SDR labels is proving most popular?

    07 March 2025

    There are four labels under the UK's Sustainability Disclosures Requirements - but which are investors flocking to and which are they shunning? Jennifer Forrest investigates

  • FCA should provide clearer guidance on 'Mixed Goals' and 'Improvers', urges UKSIF

    06 March 2025

    The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) needs to provide investors with clearer guidance on two of its labels, under the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) regime, UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) has urged.