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ESMA updated its GLESI compliance table on 1 April 2026, providing the latest picture of how national competent authorities across the EU and EEA are implementing the Guidelines on Enforcement of Sustainability Information. The table reveals a fragmented supervisory landscape: while 14 out of 30 authorities now fully comply, five…

On 2 April 2026, EFRAG published a draft assessment report evaluating whether a voluntary reporting template for SMEs on the European Single Access Point (ESAP) would help smaller companies attract financing. The report, requested by the European Commission in July 2025, is based on interviews with 85 stakeholders and surveys…

A Geneva-based ESG data and RegTech firm earns recognition for outstanding technology innovation in one of the world’s fastest-growing startup ecosystems. Why Uzbekistan — and why it matters When people think about sustainable finance technology, Central Asia is not usually the first place that comes to mind. But that is…

On 24 March 2026, the European Commission published a draft implementing regulation proposing the stand-alone suspension of the derivative trading obligation (DTO) under Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 (MiFIR). The draft targets four major EU financial counterparties and applies exclusively to the United Kingdom market — a direct response to the…

Somewhere between the Draghi report on EU competitiveness and the tenth omnibus package of 2025, the European Commission decided that environmental legislation had become too expensive to comply with — not because the objectives were wrong, but because the paperwork had grown out of proportion to the outcomes. The result…

In February 2026, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) published its official response to the proposed revisions of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) Scope 2 Guidance. EFRAG supports improvements to Scope 2 accounting but urges a balanced, proportionate, and cost-effective approach to implementation. This article summarises EFRAG’s key…

What Was the MiFID SME Growth Markets Initiative? The European Commission has confirmed the cancellation of the public consultation initiative related to MiFID costs disclosure for research covering multilateral trading facility (MTF) segments registered as SME growth markets, originally published on its Better Regulation “Have Your Say” portal under reference…

Recognition rarely arrives by accident. When it does, it usually reflects a convergence of timing, technology, and purpose. Generation Impact Global was named among the Forbes Top 100 Italian Startups at the end of last year, in December 2025, when Forbes Italia included the company in its annual special issue…

A pragmatic retreat from the 100% reuse target for straps and films Europe’s Pallet Problem and Packaging Waste Pallets are the flat, wooden workhorses of global trade. Billions of them circulate annually, bearing everything from Spanish tomatoes to Swedish flat-pack furniture. But while the pallets themselves are a model of…

The European Commission has published a draft Delegated Regulation amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/805, proposing new fee structures for the supervision of benchmark administrators that endorse third-country benchmarks under the oversight of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). Background Since January 2022, ESMA has directly supervised critical benchmark administrators…