Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)

Plastic Bank is an international social enterprise organisation founded and based in Canada. It builds recycling ecosystems in underdeveloped communities, as a way of reducing plastic pollution and tackling high poverty levels. TMI talks to David Katz, Founder and CEO,...

2030 is nine years away. But the time for transformation is now.

Ingka Group, the largest franchisee of the IKEA brand, with 390 stores in 32 countries, is not currently using digital currencies, but is following their progress closely. It is building its knowledge and understanding of the market, and assessing when the right time...

Bank of America’s recently formed EMEA ESG Strategic Council has a number of important goals in its sights. TMI talks to the council’s leaders about how it will deliver and what it means for stakeholders. With a stated intention of becoming net zero by 2030, the...

The majority of company boards now consider ESG to be a key agenda item but just 25% of treasury functions have ESG-related KPIs. Read our latest article, in partnership with Barclays, and find out how leading treasury teams are effectively implementing ESG...

Supply chain finance has evolved in recent years, yet fallacies surrounding what it is, which types of businesses it’s aimed at, and what it’s for persist. In practice, supply chain finance (SCF)  is a tool to help fortify relationships between companies within a...

If ever there was an illustration of the need to reform supply chains, it was a container ship being stuck in the Suez Canal for six days, destabilising global trade, and holding up $9.6bn of trade for every day it was stranded. These costs will be felt for years to...

TMI’s Eleanor Hill welcomes Jared Smith and Craig Ramsay (HSBC) into the TreasuryCast studio to cover the lessons that corporate treasury teams have learned from the current health crisis, and how they can apply this knowledge to effectively crisis-proof their...

A panel of ESG experts – Elina Todorova (Tideway London), Kate McGrath (Aberdeen Standard Investments) and Noemie de la Gorce (S&P Global) – advise TMI’s Eleanor Hill on best practice ESG learnings for corporate treasurers. Our guests cover the...

Economic recovery depends on how well we recover from the pandemic. A year ago, companies ploughed cash into money market funds (MMFs) to keep it safe and liquid as the crisis wreaked havoc on families, work and businesses. By the end of 2020, companies were heading...

Security, liquidity and yield have traditionally been the treasurer’s top investment considerations. But with the call for greater corporate social responsibility – and the solid performance of sustainable investments – ESG is now becoming a fourth investment...