Dominic Webb

Bank of England to publish transition plan next week; Columbia Threadneedle, Algebris launch sustainable bond funds.

Industry associations also condemn proposals to water down protections, which are intended to improve the country’s attractiveness for IPOs.

UK regulator working on investor sustainability preferences policy; BlackRock's Fink says he has dropped the use of the term ESG.

Climate Transition Finance Handbook gets first update since release, with Just Transition integrated across labelled bond principles.

Social issuance spiked as policymakers rushed to fund their crisis response but has fallen again post-pandemic. Can new issuers and instruments bring the market back to life?

FCA-convened group proposes template for voluntary reporting to include some disclosures of rationales, proposes public registry.

CBI and UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction launch whitepaper on planned taxonomy, start recruiting for technical working groups.

Claudia Chapman, who headed up the team overseeing the UK stewardship code, is set to depart the Financial Reporting Council later this year.

Document emphasises long-term engagement across the 'ecosystem', group chair Railpen calls for covenants to include climate.

Businesses to remain separate but will go forward under leadership of indexes CEO Ron Bundy, with further integrations being investigated.