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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: Going green – Rising expectations and risks on green claims
Banks face mounting pressure to make ambitious climate pledges, while avoiding greenwashing claims when rhetoric falls short of reality.This article is …
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 …
Climate change: succeed in a net-zero future
The risks associated with climate change go way beyond the purely environmental.In our climate change briefing we consider at a high level the political, …
Herbert Smith Freehills Commits to Reducing Environmental Impact of Disputes by Signing Transformative Arbitration and Litigation Pledges
Herbert Smith Freehills has committed to reducing the environmental impact of disputes by signing two important industry pledges: the Green Pledge of the …
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