Swapping Vanilla for Green
ESG’s Expanding Role in Trade Finance Sustainable finance has formed strong roots in the loan and bond markets, but where does it stand in the world of trade? Societe Generale’s Charline Profillet, Deputy Head, Structured Trade Finance, and Marie-Gabrielle de Drouas, Head of ESG Global Transaction Banking, shine a light on its developing role. Trade […]
Shifting From Aid to Trade is the Key to Africa’s Sustainable Future
Jolene Abshire, Sector Head for Development Organisations, Absa Group, discusses the shifting dynamics of donor funding for Africa in recent years, explaining how moving from traditional aid to trade-centric models can help the continent to support its own initiatives, economy, and resources. Donor funding to Africa is shrinking as budgets dwindle. Global crises, such as […]
Do No Significant Harm
Navigating Sustainability Standards and Regs Sustainability in treasury can be tackled in a number of ways – and standards are slowly emerging to steer participants in the right direction. Do these help or just create more work, and is the pace of development too slow? TMI explores the current state of play in the field […]
Celebrating ESG and D&I Leaders
Meet the Treasury4Good Champions TMI’s Treasury4Good Awards, which have rapidly become a benchmark for sustainable innovation in the industry, celebrate the best ESG and D&I initiatives among corporates, banks, and technology vendors. Read on to discover how cutting-edge companies are embracing sustainability, supporting diversity, and challenging traditional ways of doing business – to the benefit […]
Carbonomics 101: Everything you need to know about how carbon credit prices are calculated
With carbon markets gaining more prominence in corporate sustainability strategies, we take a closer look at how carbon credit prices are calculated and key factors that companies should consider when purchasing carbon credits for offsetting their residual emissions. With 2050 fast approaching, there is growing awareness that putting a price on carbon will play an […]
Making the Sustainable Transition: A Roadmap to ESG in Treasury
Over the last 18 months, Societe Generale has experienced a steady increase in requests from their corporate clients to integrate ESG features in treasury management. Louis-David Rouyer, Philippe Pougeard, and Emmanuelle Petelle (Societe Generale) provide TMI’s Eleanor Hill with a whistlestop run through of the bank’s ESG and CSR integration journey, touching on the progress […]
Mind the Gap! Overcoming Obstacles to Short-term ESG Investing
While treasurers have repeatedly shown interest in using ESG-related short-term investment instruments, actual investment levels have yet to match these aspirations. Recent research from ICD explores the gap between intention and execution in treasury investments. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has risen up the treasury and finance agenda in recent years, with banks and financial […]
The Future of ESG in Treasury
In this podcast, Melissa Moi, Peter Jameson and Venkat ES from Bank of America join TMI’s Eleanor Hill to determine where the ESG journey is heading next. Our expert panel consider how changing regulation, technology solutions and metrics including ESG KPIs are shaping the role of treasurers to become purveyors of sustainable finance. Furthermore, our […]
Embracing Supplier Diversity: Treasury Lessons from Facebook and GSK
By focusing on the diversity and inclusion elements of external relationships within the supply chain, corporates can create additional value and efficiencies. Here, treasurers are being urged to ‘roll up their sleeves’ and get involved in this potentially transformative process. With diversity and inclusion (D&I) now well established on the corporate agenda, and companies continually […]
HSBC’s Sibos Spotlight: Investing in the Future – from Diversity to Green Deposits
In the final instalment of HSBC’s Sibos Spotlight, Eleanor Hill (TMI) invites Nadine Lagarmitte and Suraj Kalati (HSBC) to consider how corporates’ attitudes to ESG are changing, including a growing interest in ESG investment. Our guests explain the incentives behind HSBC’s green deposit scheme, explore how ESG product development is evolving in response to tighter […]
HSBC’s Sibos Spotlight: The ESG Landscape – what every treasurer needs to know
In the third edition of HSBC’s Sibos Spotlight Podcast series, TMI’s Eleanor Hill invites Farnam Bidgoli (HSBC) to provide an in-depth overview of the current ESG landscape, so that treasurers can build a credible sustainability strategy. Amongst an excess of ESG insights, our guest explains how treasury teams can prepare for upcoming regulatory changes including […]
Green Light for Green Trade Finance
Green trade finance transactions require a trade finance instrument to support an underlying green project. But with no market standards yet supporting their use, accusations of ‘greenwash’ threaten their integrity. TMI spoke to the Head of Trade Finance at one of the few global banks currently offering this option about how this view is being […]
Why ESG is the Future of Business – and Treasury
With ‘sustainability’ being today’s buzzword, there has never been a better time to clear up the misconceptions about environmental, social and governance (ESG) measures, not least among the treasury community. In the first of a three-part series on this increasingly important topic, experts from Bank of America tackle the myths and mysteries head on, offering […]
Core Strengths
Deutsche Bank Wins in Supply Chain Finance, Data Innovation and ESG BEST BANK FOR TRADE & FSCM Europe TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION AWARDS Best Data Management Innovation Solution TREASURY4GOOD AWARDS Global Bank of the Year for CSR/ESG Deutsche Bank amply demonstrates its capacity to keep delivering on the global stage, scooping no less than three awards […]
Celebrating a Sustainable Future
Treasury4Good Awards 2020 Despite the global pandemic, sustainability and diversity and inclusion (D&I) have remained key areas of engagement for corporate treasurers and their relationship banks. Here, we celebrate those organisations putting environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues at the heart of the corporate treasury function. Now in their second year, TMI’s Treasury4Good Awards recognise […]
Now is the Time to Make Corporate Social Responsibility Count
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is, in my view, more important now than ever. Before Covid-19, people were already looking for a different approach, wanting a world where business is more than just about making money. Consumers want transparency; they want specifics about fair trade; good working conditions; environmental responsibility; and more. It’s true that some […]
The Rise of ESG: Business Drivers and Treasury Imperatives
More and more treasurers are getting involved in environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives. Not only financing them but also embedding them into treasury processes and spearheading departmental sustainability projects. ESG is now widely recognised as an opportunity to innovate, add value, improve risk management, and contribute to long-term growth. The importance that C-level executives […]
Diversity and Inclusion: the Need for Courageous Integrity
Companies across the globe are striving for a more caring and responsible relationship with employees and the communities in which they operate. But are they doing enough to make sure that diverse hires thrive within the organisation? And that employees from under-represented groups feel included as valued, appreciated contributors? Four diversity and inclusion champions share […]