Regulators

Proposed regulatory changes would negatively impact asset managers who depend on benchmark provider data to meet SFDR requirements.

NYC State Comptroller DiNapoli files DE&I shareholder proposals; BNP Paribas AM to raise women on boards threshold to 40% for portfolio companies.

Future step by US financial watchdog would be ‘easy and meaningful’, according to SEC commissioner Caroline Crenshaw.

As final rule rows back significantly on corporate emissions disclosures, big investors express cautious optimism, while others, including SEC commissioner Crenshaw, lament what could have been.

Former SEC lawyer Kurt Gottschall tells RI that a change in government would bring ‘significant pressure to wipe the climate disclosure rule off the books’.

Group publishes raft of recommendations for next EU legislative phase and flags signatory concerns about stewardship struggles under current framework.

The latest ESG movers and shakers: Bowie-MacDonald quits Abrdn after 10 years; Martens leaves head of stewardship role at Old Mutual.

Acting in concert continues to hinder collaborative engagement as multiple firms engage BaFin, CA100+ over Phase 2 disclosure requirements.

Brad Lander responds to reports that US watchdog plans to drop Scope 3 disclosure requirements as market awaits imminent release of final rule.

Ahead of a planned overhaul of the code, the FRC will also ask whether reporting requirements have had 'unintended consequences’.