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Is your fund ready for the latest SFDR requirements? Explore our comprehensive guide to the EU’s transparency framework. Learn how to classify your financial products, avoid greenwashing, and integrate ESG factors into your investment decision-making process with clarity and confidence.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has launched consultation CP26/5 to align listed companies’ ESG disclosures with the new UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS), replacing the current TCFD-based framework and strengthening sustainability transparency for investors.

On 4 March 2026, the European Commission published its proposal for the Industrial Accelerator Act — one of the most significant pieces of industrial legislation the EU has put forward in decades. For companies operating at the intersection of ESG, sustainability reporting, and regulatory compliance, this regulation introduces new procurement…

An ESG strategy is an organisation’s structured approach to govern, identify, prioritise, and manage environmental, social, and governance issues that affect enterprise value and risk — and, increasingly, to also manage and disclose outward impacts on people and the environment. This dual “inside-out” and “outside-in” framing is no longer aspirational…

Introduction Impact measurement has become a central obligation for financial institutions operating within evolving regulatory frameworks including the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the UK Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR), and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) guidance. Within this landscape, the Theory of Change (ToC) is one of the…

Directive (EU) 2026/470, adopted on 24 February 2026 and published in the Official Journal on 26 February 2026, amends EU corporate sustainability reporting and corporate sustainability due diligence rules by narrowing scope, introducing value chain protections, removing the transition to reasonable assurance, and reshaping the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive…

The integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into the prudential supervision of the European financial sector represents one of the most significant shifts in regulatory methodology since the implementation of Basel III and Solvency II. On January 8, 2026, the European Supervisory Authorities—the European Banking Authority (EBA), the…

We reviewed if this year will be any changes regarding ESG on the USA market and would like to share a recent update that suggests a fundamental, and perhaps irreversible, bifurcation of the American corporate reporting landscape. While the federal government has effectively beat a strategic retreat into the safety…

What is changing in SFDR in 2025? In November 2025, the European Commission published a legislative proposal to amend the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR – Regulation (EU) 2019/2088). The proposal fundamentally restructures how sustainability-related financial products are regulated, disclosed, and marketed in the European Union. Rather than expanding disclosure…

Introduction: Why ESG ratings supervision now matters Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings have become a structural component of EU capital markets. They influence investment decisions, portfolio construction, sustainability disclosures, and risk management across the financial system. As their market relevance has grown, so too has regulatory concern around methodological…