All Sustainable financial system articles – Page 3
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Thought leadership
Innovating stock exchanges to mobilize capital for impact
Traditional stock exchanges are evolving their business practices to find more innovative ways to increase capital flows to sustainable companies and projects through both listed equity and bonds.
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Stock exchange innovation: applications for blockchain
For the past few years, financial institutions have been investing in blockchain technology with the idea that it could reduce the cost and complexity of many of its processes, ranging from payments and settlements to tracking shareholder assets.
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Thought leadershipEvolving business models and new applications of technology by stock exchanges
Evolving business models is not a new topic to stock exchanges. Historically, most exchanges were self-regulated, mutual bodies serving their broker members, and revenues were driven primarily by annual membership dues. Exchanges charged traders a fee to buy and sell stocks on a physical trading floor.
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Thought leadership
The European Commission Action Plan: Action 9
The European Commission Action Plan: An assessment of the reform areas for PRI signatories provides an overview of the area of reforms. Action 9 focuses on strengthening sustainability disclosure and accounting rule-making.
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The European Commission Action Plan: Action 7
The European Commission Action Plan: An assessment of the reform areas for PRI signatories provides an overview of the main areas of reforms. Action 7 focuses on clarifying institutional investors’ and asset managers’ duties.
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The European Commission Action Plan: Action 5
The European Commission Action Plan: An assessment of the reform areas for PRI signatories provides an overview of the main reform areas. Action 5 focuses on developing sustainability benchmarks.
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The European Commission Action Plan: Action 1
The European Commission Action Plan: An assessment of the reform areas for PRI signatories provides an overview of the main reform areas. Action 1 looks at establishing an EU classification system for sustainability activities.
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Explaining the EU Action Plan for Financing Sustainable Growth
On 7 March 2018, the European Commission released an action plan for financing sustainable growth. The plan is a response to recommendations from the High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Sustainable Finance, which were submitted to the Commission on 31 January 2018.
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Webinar
Présentation du Plan d'Action de la Commission Européenne sur la finance durable
Présentation du Plan d’Action sur la finance durable de la Commission Européenne, et des propositions législatives associées.
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Technical guide
Mise en oeuvre des recommendations du groupe de travail sur la publication d'informations financières relatives au climat (TCFD)
Les marchés financiers ont besoin de données de qualité sur les risques liés au climat afin d’opérer efficacement vers la transition énergétique.
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The European Commission Action Plan: Action 10
The European Commission Action Plan: An assessment of the reform areas for PRI signatories provides an overview of the main areas of reform. Action 10 focuses on fostering sustainable corporate governance and attenuating short-termism in capital markets.
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The European Commission Action Plan: Action 8
The European Commission Action Plan: An assessment of the reform areas for PRI signatories provides an overview of the main areas of reform. Action 8 focuses on incorporating sustainability in prudential requirements.
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The European Commission Action Plan: Action 6
The European Commission Action Plan: An assessment of the reform areas for PRI signatories provides an overview of the main reform areas. Action 6 focuses on better integrating sustainability in ratings and research.
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The European Commission Action Plan: Action 4
The European Commission Action Plan: An assessment of the reform areas for PRI signatories provides an overview of the main reform areas. Action 4 focuses on incorporating sustainability when providing financial advice.
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The European Commission Action Plan: Action 3
The European Commission Action Plan: An assessment of the reform areas for PRI signatories provides an overview of reforms for PRI signatories. Action 3 focuses on fostering investment in sustainable projects.
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Thought leadership
The European Commission Action Plan: Action 2
The European Commission Action Plan: An assessment of the reform areas for PRI signatories provides an overview of the main reform areas. Action 2 looks at creating standards and labels for green financial products.
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Discussion paper
Responsible investment and blockchain
This paper introduces blockchain and its relevance to responsible investors. Part one is a technical primer on blockchain, while part two explores some of the ways in which blockchain could transform the financial system and the implications this may have for investors.
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Discussion paper
A primer on blockchain
Part one of Responsible investment and blockchain provides a technical primer on blockchain.
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Discussion paper
The implications of blockchain for responsible investment
Central share depositories Modern shares are often not directly held by shareholders, but in bulk by specialist depositories (such as the DTC in the US), which then assign shares to their individual owners by keeping a central ownership register. This has drawn attention from blockchain reformers who claim that the ...
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Discussion paper
How policy and regulation affect investment consultants' approach to ESG considerations
Globally, we’ve seen growth in ESG-related regulation for asset owners and investment managers, but not investment consultants.
