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In December 2025, the Prudential Regulation Authority raised the bar. Supervisory Statement SS5/25 moved climate risk out of the “awareness” phase and into core financial workflows: governance, credit underwriting, capital
Ask an underwriter where a counterparty’s flood exposure figure came from, and most can answer. Ask where its sustainability score came from, and the trail often goes cold somewhere between
By June 2026, every UK bank must show the PRA a credible gap analysis against SS5/25, the supervisory statement that now treats climate risk as core prudential risk. For banks
Is a business quietly moving through its renewal season with insurers who can’t actually see the risk they’re pricing? According to Aon’s UK insurance market insights, underwriters are now placing
A forced-labour screen that was accurate at onboarding can be worthless six months later if the supplier quietly changes subcontractors. A deforestation attestation can become indefensible if the underlying coordinates
Sustainability-linked loans were meant to be the bridge between good intentions and hard numbers. Hit your target, your margin drops. Miss it, your margin rises. Simple, in theory. In practice,
Ask an underwriter to compare a manufacturer’s sustainability score with a software company’s, and the instinct is to line the numbers up side by side. That instinct is the problem.
Ask a relationship manager when they last used a climate risk dashboard, and most will tell you: never. Not because they don’t care, but because the data lives somewhere else
Ask an underwriter how confident they are in a corporate risk score, and most will hedge. Not because the model is wrong, but because they know how much of it
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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