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Sustainable Finance and ESG
Sustainability and ESG have become public and private sector priorities, with consumers and corporates alike increasingly focused on sustainability practices when making financial decisions and governments considering a wide variety of policy initiatives to drive behavior. The transaction banking industry has a crucial role to play in supporting corporate efforts to position sustainability at the core of their business strategies and throughout their supply chains.
Sustainability remains one of BAFT’s top priorities. A sustainability working group with 5 sub-streams is defining the roadmap for sustainability initiatives BAFT will address on behalf of its members. To learn more and get involved, check out the Sustainability Working Group.
Sustainability Working Group Sub-Streams:
- Standards & Definitions
- Reporting
- Net zero bank alliance
- Advocacy
- Education
Putting Values Back in the Value Chain: what Can We Do to Encourage Sustainability in Trade?
How do you build a successful market-driven and profitable trade finance ESG Framework? Our esteemed panel will help shed light to this and explore approaches to ensure consistency in ESG practices across banking and corporate sectors within the industry.
Our Priorities
- Developing Definitions and Standards for Sustainable Trade Finance
- ESG and Its Role in Financial Services
- Guidance on Sustainability Reporting
- Impact Investing
- Principles for Applying Net Zero Across International Finance Transactions
- Standards for Sustainable Finance in Transaction Banking
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