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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
A supplier questionnaire lands in your inbox asking for your “Scope 1 and 2 emissions.” You run a restaurant, a hotel, or a shop — not a sustainability department. Where
Renewal season for commercial insurers usually means the same conversation on repeat: chasing a policyholder for information that either never arrives, or arrives in a format nobody can compare to
Ask a bank how confident it is in the emissions data behind its SME loan book, and the honest answer is usually “not very.” Most of that data still comes
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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