March 29, 2022 After Small Steps, a Giant Leap for Climate-Related Disclosure in the U.S.? Recent rulemaking developments at the SEC indicate that, if 2021 was a year in which it revealed its intentions about…
March 21, 2022 ESG disclosure takes a step forward in the United States Today the SEC proposed rules to enhance climate-related disclosures, modeled in part on the widely used recommendations of the FSB’s…
March 17, 2022 From Disclosure to Action Large Corporates and Financial Firms Face a New Breed of ESG Regulation under the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive…
March 9, 2022 ASIC’s Corporate Governance Priorities and the Year Ahead For ESG investment managers with Australian products in their portfolios, ASIC notes the following about what lies ahead. Acknowledging that…
March 9, 2022 Consultation on the Listing Act Background read – in case you missed it: Investment compliance offices might take note of proposed regulatory changes that would…
February 22, 2022 Timeline of ESG Regulation Effective Dates Financial market participants take note: in the EU, ESMA just posted a convenient timeline of ESG regulation effective dates (dated…
February 22, 2022 ESG: SFDR’s “Article 10” website disclosures To state the obvious, the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) has received immense attention from the financial sector in…
November 29, 2021 SFDR and Taxonomy Regulation Technical Standards Delayed Six Months Important ESG news for EU market participants: The European Commission, by letter to the EU Parliament and Council, has delayed…
November 22, 2021 ESMA Publishes Final Report on Draft RTS of Commodity Derivatives Under MiFID II Recovery Package On 22 November 2021, ESMA published its Final Report on its draft RTS relating to commodity derivatives under the MiFID…
October 27, 2021 Around the World in 10 Days: ESG Regulatory Developments For global investors, the accelerating pace of ESG regulatory developments portends a massive, additional layer of compliance obligations they will…
September 28, 2021 News for Short Position Holders on EU Markets Big news for short position holders on EU markets. European Commission adopts lowering of reporting threshold to 0.1%. Entry into…
September 1, 2021 ESMA Issues National Rules on Notifications of Major Holdings Holders of securities on European markets: Today ESMA issued a new edition of its must-have reference for investment managers notifying…