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Global Bank Review: Central bank digital currencies and ESG – a sprint across the tightrope
CBDCs are touted as helping the unbanked into the financial system but vast social promise must be balanced against complex environmental and governance …
Global Bank Review: Boosting virtue, banning vice – will ESG and financial crime agendas converge?
As ESG evolves from its roots in fostering virtuous investment towards prescriptive regulation, we ask if the tools to tackle financial crime will …
Global Bank Review: Sustainable loans – are we there yet?
Sustainable loans are booming, but not yet for every borrower.This article is part of our 2021 Global Bank Review – ESG: Creating a purposeful future, an …
Global Bank Review: ESG targets and banker comp – We've only just begun
Executive remuneration packages are increasingly linked to ESG targets. This trend will only grow.This article is part of our 2021 Global Bank …
2021 Global Bank Review – ESG: Creating a purposeful future
Welcome to the fifth edition of the Global Bank ReviewHave banks, like much of the corporate world, suddenly got religion on all things environmental, …
Global Bank Review: Human rights due diligence and banking – a practical introduction
Scrutinising human rights records is moving into the mainstream of deal-making. That will include lenders.This article is part of our 2021 Global Bank …
Global Bank Review: Fossil-fuelled – how banks are increasingly becoming targets for climate activists
With investors throwing their weight behind activist campaigns, banks face mounting pressure to divert funding away from high-carbon industries.This …
Global Bank Review: ESG Perspectives
With ESG edging into finance’s mainstream, the Global Bank Review canvassed three senior figures on how climate change and rising social obligations are …
Global Bank Review: Stressing out – capturing banks' climate exposures
Banks are increasingly being pressed to report climate risks to their business. We chart the global drive to gauge the financial industry’s climate …
Banks must step up the pace on delivering their ESG responses and commitments, as regulators consider next steps – says new report
The prodding and rhetoric designed to galvanise banks into action on ESG will soon be replaced by the threat of enforcement and the spectre of sanctions, …
FAR moving forward: What’s new and what next?
The Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2021 (FAR Bill) was introduced in the House of Representatives on 28 October 2021. This legislation will replace …
The final Senate report on Australia as a tech and finance hub – An opportunity missed
The Senate Select Committee on Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre produced its Final Report on 20 October 2021 which supplements its …
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