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Most school energy contracts don’t fail because of a bad deal. They fail because of a missed date. Business managers are juggling budgets, staffing and compliance deadlines all year round.
Brussels is currently working through proposals to simplify parts of the EU’s sustainability reporting regime. That should be good news for insurers already stretched thin on compliance capacity. But simplification
Two manufacturers sit in the same lending book. One has just fitted heat pumps and cut its energy use by a third. The other still runs on ageing gas boilers
Ask ten underwriters, portfolio risk leads, or supply chain teams which sustainability framework they report against, and you’ll likely get ten different answers. SFDR, TNFD, ORSA, an internal risk taxonomy,
Your energy bill tells you what you spent. It doesn’t tell you why. That distinction matters more than most SME operators realise. A quarterly invoice is a summary — a
On 3 December 2025, the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) replaced its decade-old climate guidance with something far more demanding. Supervisory Statement 5/25 gives banks just six months
A busy restaurant owner gets an email about their energy contract. It’s easy to file it away — there’s a delivery to sort, staff rotas to finish, a Friday night
A relationship manager sits down with an SME client for their annual review. On the list: turnover, headcount, working capital needs — and now, increasingly, questions about energy usage and
An underwriter reviewing a mid-market manufacturer has a clean set of financials. Revenue is stable, margins look healthy, the balance sheet checks out. What that underwriter doesn’t have: any real
This report is based on the first in a series of enlightening panel discussions that sets out to frame the problems and challenges being faced by all stakeholders in the ESG finance space. Despite the SMEs desire to engage in ESG practices, a lack of information on how to take action against climate change and competing business priorities are significant challenges in improving these practices.
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