In recent years, we have seen a significant increase in the importance of CSR issues within the finance industry, driven by the urgency of certain major challenges such as climate change and the decline in biodiversity, as well as an awareness of the levers we have as investors and the potential for value creation within the companies in which we invest.

For a long time, the European Commission (EC) has intended to increase sustainable finance growth, by encouraging investments considering specific Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria. In 2018, three legislative proposals were published, aiming at creating a European Union (EU) sustainable finance taxonomy, enhancing transparency on sustainable...

As part of its sustainable finance action plan with the publication and entry into force of two major regulations (SFDR, EU Regulation 2019/2088, and Framework Regulation, EU Regulation 2020/852, known as the Taxonomy Regulation), the European Commission has had to make changes to other regulations in order to take account of sustainability factors.

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS), keen to help our clients to be ESG-conscious when investing on the Polish market.

Greenwashing can be defined as behaviour or activities that make people believe that a company is doing more to protect the environment than it really is*. Alexis Scheidecker, ESG** products specialist at Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS), explains why the investment industry needs to tackle greenwashing head-on and offer investors more sophisticated...

A combination of blockchain and monitoring technologies allow new types of highly automated instruments such as sustainability-linked debt instruments to be issued.

While there has been increasing institutional interest in digital assets, such as Bitcoin, some hesitancy in adopting this new asset class remains. A significant contribution to this hesitancy stems from concerns about compatibility with ESG goals. This article takes a look at the seemingly paradoxical role crypto assets play in pursuing ESG goals.

The battle to cool down the planet appears, ironically, to be heating up the economy. This is the essence of ‘greenflation’: the extra boost given to prices when conventional cost-push inflation – which we are currently experiencing as the world recovers from the pandemic thanks to massive fiscal/monetary stimulus and large excess savings – is supercharged by...

The European Commission announced on 6 April 2022 that it has adopted the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) to be used by financial market participants when circulating sustainability-related information under Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 of 27 November 2019, known as SFDR, or the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.

ESG is an increasingly important topic in finance and a source of concern for both asset managers and investors. Although it is not a new topic, the trend is now accelerating, as demonstrated by the introduction of the SFDR and the proliferation of funds adhering to clearly identified and labelled strategies.

Asset managers must make the right choices when considering sustainable and responsible investments. Therefore, they need a clear vision of Sustainable Finance regulations.

Clients were driving demand for ESG investing long before EU regulators took up this challenge and formalised processes around this trend. According to Bryan Fage Head of Sales and Relationship Management at Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) Luxembourg, this is why asset managers and businesses must build their strategies around sustainability. But...

Despite the prevailing economic uncertainty being caused by COVID-19, Western European markets are in recovery mode. Societe Generale Securities Services [SGSS] looks at the main developments now underway across the key European markets along with some of the challenges they pose to investors.

Active ETF assets are growing and so is the number of fund managers that want to offer them. Véronique Dang Vu, ETF expert at Societe Generale Securities Services, explains some of the most frequent considerations for firms from a set-up and operational perspective.

The low-interest rate environment, increased market volatility and ongoing regulatory pressure are just some of the drivers forcing investment managers to review their target operating model today.