Daily FNArena News - ESG Focus

Governments have been slow to adopt sovereign crisis bonds, but covid has proven a shot in the arm, if not without controversy

Big capital is encouraging sovereign social bond issuance as a means to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, but everyone’s a critic

As financialisation of the globe gathers pace, sovereign nations are being pressed to issue GSS bonds, and they may have to take the bad with the good

The beginning of the Consumer Data Right (CDR) will be recalled as the commencement of a very beneficial new chapter for Australian businesses and consumers alike

The anaemic transition-bond market has suddenly become one of the hottest topics in the bond market today – and the stakes are high

As big capital extends green financial nets into the retail, SME and corporate markets, banks are likely to be sheltered from the worst ravages of competition behind anti-trust legislation

Technology firms are often favoured by ESG funds because of their ostensibly clean, asset-light business models. But investors need to look deeper and challenge unethical and unsustainable practices across the industry

This is a heavily edited version of the Bank for International Settlements complimentary discussion on a proposed green-bond rating system for global markets based on carbon intensity

Widespread vaccine rollouts are seeing European markets open up and pathways to the global recovery become clearer. Saxo Markets predicts a transition to a greener economy in a post-covid world is set to be the defining feature of the upcoming third quarter

Carbon intensity is set to emerge as the benchmark hero in the global push to create a fungible green bond market and tighten regulation