Analysis

  • Unlocking local currency finance: The EBRD's SME local currency programme

    04 March 2025

    The development bank's programme is helping to strengthen financial markets, writes Thea Kokhreidze and Callum Thomas

  • Does the EU's Omnibus reduce transition planning to a publicity exercise?

    03 March 2025

    Experts are divided over what a change in wording in the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive means for climate transition plans, Michael Hurley reports

  • COP16 negotiations end in 'landmark' deal for financing

    28 February 2025

    The reconvened talks ended with a transformative deal on financial mobilisation, with the private sector urged to increase its contributions to a global fund, writes Genevieve Redgrave

  • EU Omnibus: A turning point for supply chain due diligence

    26 February 2025

    Simplification should not come at the cost of weakening due diligence mandates, which are essential for long-term competitiveness, writes Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon

  • Sustainable bond fund universe expands to 126 in 2024

    26 February 2025

    The number of specialised labelled sustainable bond funds grew by 12% in 2024, despite fund closures, Ahren Lester reports

  • Biodiversity funds underperform in 2024 market rally

    25 February 2025

    Biodiversity funds continued to lag their benchmarks in 2024, reports Genevieve Redgrave

  • EU Omnibus: The end of 'the Brussels effect'?

    25 February 2025

    The European Commission needs to make the bloc more competitive and sustainable, while maintaining its soft power, writes Marcio Viegas

  • 2025: A Year of Change for GSS Bonds

    24 February 2025

    2025 is set to be a transformative year for GSS bonds, writes Pietro Sette

  • Disasters and currency risk: implications for development and climate finance

    21 February 2025

    Foreign exchange risk is a development risk, and tackling it should be a core pillar of global efforts to build resilience in disaster-prone economies, write Ulrich Volz, Yuen Lo, Harald Hirschhofer and Callum Thomas

  • Safeguarding the EU's sustainable finance framework is critical for its competitiveness

    21 February 2025

    Efforts to make the EU's sustainable finance regulations work better for everyone are welcome, but investors need high-quality sustainability data and regulatory certainty, write Stephanie Pfeifer, Aleksandra Palinska, and David Atkin