Expert view points

Banks have a critical role to play in scaling up finance and investment to address sustainability challenges. In Asia Pacific, a holistic approach is needed to support corporates and investors in their transition.

Is clean hydrogen about to take off? With strong policy signals in the US and EU, institutional investors are beginning to think so.

Limiting the emissions on university campuses across the US will be key to reaching net zero goals by 2050.

Japan continues to catch global investors’ eyes – and it’s not just a short-term bet.

As shipping accelerates its journey towards decarbonisation, huge investment and a united front are required across the maritime industry, Paul Taylor, Global Head, Maritime Industries, and Elodie Tarby, Vice President, Strategic and Capital Advisory, Maritime Industries share their insights in Marine Money magazine - article published on July 27, 2023

After a decade or more with yields hovering around zero in many developed markets and falling into negative territory in countries including Germany and Japan, bonds are back.

At a time when the world has entered a state of “permacrisis” – in other words, permanent crisis – Correspondent Banking must evolve to adapt to this new reality. The challenge? Building more resilient networks, capable of ensuring the continuity of international payments for banks and their customers in all circumstances. But without losing sight of the...

Correspondent banking has undergone a profound transformation in recent years. International payments are more technical and more regulated, and have become increasingly complex to operate, prompting some players to cut back on this market. However, this trend must not be allowed to hold back inclusive banking efforts, at the risk of cutting off part of the...

The speed at which individuals can access the internet from their homes has grown rapidly since the days of dial-up, with fiberoptic cables now able to deliver data into homes at a rate of nearly 70% the speed of light. Despite these advances in technology and a multitude of providers, the U.S. still has a low degree of competition in high-speed broadband when...

As hundreds of billions of euros are invested to make the transition a reality, risk allocation throughout the value chain will be key.

Social enterprises, NGOs and similar civil society organisations are experts when it comes to the creation of social and environmental impact – but when it comes to financing them, the credit risk models of banks and investors send red alerts, for understandable reasons.

As part of Societe Generale’s annual Quant Conference held earlier this month, Benjamin Hoff, Societe Generale’s new Global Head of Commodities Research, took center stage with Greg Sharenow – a Managing Director at the giant US asset manager PIMCO - to discuss some of the important commodity related topics on the minds of institutional investors.

Corporates, investors, analysts, and academics gathered in Paris on May 10, 2023, for the S&P Global Sustainable1 Summit to discuss sustainability themes ranging from biodiversity to climate risk to net zero and the energy transition.

With countries across Europe rolling out mandatory e-invoicing legislation, several of which are aimed at B2B payments, treasurers and finance transformation teams must be ready for a significant transition in how they make and receive payments.

At the utterance of the acronym C-PACE, and almost certainly if you combine it with another, ABS, eyes are apt to glaze over, minds to wander. But these less widely known terms are behind a swell of new investments in U.S. real estate to fund commercial building improvements that are bringing tangible positive environmental and social change to people’s lives.

Discover our expert’s view, Eric Cherpion, Global Head of DCM syndicate.

With the French law adopted on 10 March 2023 on the acceleration of renewable energy production, offshore wind farm projects will be accelerated in the country.

The diet always starts tomorrow; we will go to the gym next week; and stop drinking after New Year. But when it comes to planning for retirement, most of us prevaricate for even longer.