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ESG

  • ESG faces reckoning after being ‘hijacked’ by marketeers, EY sustainability chief warns

    July 14, 2022

    EY’s sustainability chief said the ‘environmental, social and governance’ (ESG) label had been “hijacked” by marketeers today as the firm called for greater scrutiny and regulation of the space to prevent it falling into “disrepute”.

  • Greenwashing creates ‘false confidence’ in climate fight, environment chief warns

    July 4, 2022

    Rampant greenwashing is creating a "false confidence" in the fight against climate change and threatening to to derail efforts to hit net zero targets, the chief of the UK’s environment agency will warn today.

  • PwC hires 50 ESG focused interns as Big Four seek to capitalise on sustainability push

    June 29, 2022

    PwC is set to bring in 50 new interns entirely focused on climate and ESG amid a race amongst the world’s biggest companies to capitalise on the rise of sustainability reporting. The Big Four firm said 50 of its 500 new interns will be focused on matters concerning ESG. PwC’s ESG chief Zubin Randeria said [...]

  • Exclusive: We need a business mindset shift and new tools to get us there, says City insider

    June 20, 2022

    ESG commitments for 2030 are high on the boardroom agenda, but are we asking the right questions? The big money question is, even if we meet our sustainability targets, does that secure the social conditions and environmental resources that we will need for businesses to operate in the future?  Across the City, a viewpoint on [...]

  • New audit watchdog chair pledges tougher rules for company executives

    June 16, 2022

    The new chair of the UK’s audit watchdog has vowed to make company directors accountable for corporate accounting scandals, in his first public speech as head of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC).   FRC chair Sir Jan du Plessis said the government’s decision to water down plans for a British version of the USA’s “Sarbanes-Oxley [...]

  • UK’s financial watchdog vows to crack down on greenwashing

    June 9, 2022

    The UK’s financial watchdog has said it is “actively” monitoring the markets for instances of greenwashing, involving false and exaggerated claims around ESG. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) told City A.M. that it has “made it a priority that investors are given clear and reliable information about ESG products,” as the watchdog said it is [...]

  • ESG is moving to the heart of property portfolios

    June 7, 2022  |  Sponsored

    The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to transform the spaces where we live, work and socialise. And it’s clear that commercial and residential developers and those working in property finance are becoming keenly focused on sustainability and affordability. Whilst environmental, social and governance (ESG) certainly isn’t new, its principles are vital and it’s imperative [...]

  • Deutsche Bank unit raided in Germany over ‘greenwashing’ allegations

    May 31, 2022

    Prosecutors in Germany raided Deutsche Bank’s asset management unit DWS and the bank’s headquarters yesterday.

  • Exclusive: KPMG to hire 3,500 tech workers to staff newly launched digital products business

    May 27, 2022

    KPMG today launched a new digital solutions business which is set to see the firm more than double the size of its 3,000 strong technology focused workforce by hiring 3,500 new data scientists and engineers. The UK arm of the Big Four firm said it plans to create 1,000 London tech jobs, in its efforts [...]

  • Editorial: HSBC brouhaha should kick off a worthwhile ESG debate

    May 23, 2022

    It is ironic that in a speech criticising hyperbole, the now-suspended HSBC Head of Responsible Investing Stuart Kirk went to some effort to out-hyperbole even those who he sought to lambast. As a former journalist, Kirk will surely have known that criticising alarmist “nut jobs” was unlikely to do anything but stir a hornet’s nest. [...]

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