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Is nature ready to move into the mainstream?
Nature may be a sideline investment strategy for many asset managers but initiatives to protect the natural world are taking root.
16 Jan 2025
Preparing asset managers for nature reporting
Pressure is mounting on financial institutions to educate their employees and clients on the importance of nature-related reporting.
16 Jan 2025
How sectors are tackling nature-related risks
As nature preservation becomes an urgent priority, sectors with direct impacts on ecosystems are stepping up to address nature-related risks.
16 Jan 2025
Green Loans or Sustainability Linked Loans?
As ESG investing returns to the spotlight, signalling a greater uptake of sustainability linked loans and green loans, we explore the different finance options.
26 Nov 2024
Is nature ready to move into the mainstream?
With accelerating EU regulation around nature and biodiversity what should alternative investment funds and asset managers start thinking about, and what steps are needed to integrate nature into investment priorities?
Fund Finance
Top fund trends for 2025
Shani Unantenne, Head of Funds and Sponsors at NatWest, highlights the key market trends for 2025
06 Jan 2025
Funding emerging green technologies: opportunities and challenges
A recent roundtable discussion with RBS International's clients revealed while there is appetite to invest in transition energy and emerging technologies, concerns over scalability, risk and near-term returns are causing investors to approach with caution.
23 May 2024
Emerging technology and the fund landscape
How will emerging technology impact the funds landscape? Tech adoption will be the great differentiator in business over the coming years, but which technology trends look likely to make the biggest impact on the alternative investment market?
20 May 2024
Fund Governance
Securing the Future of the Funds Industry
There is nothing permanent except change, as attendees heard at the recent Fund Governance 2024 conference, hosted by NatWest Trustee & Depositary Services.
29 May 2024
Depositary Insights March 23
Welcome to the latest edition of Depositary Insights which offers the latest thinking on regulatory and industry developments from NatWest Trustee and Depositary Services.
22 Mar 2023
Liquidity in the spotlight
The economic downturn, war in Ukraine and the aftermath of the UK government’s mini-budget have coalesced to ramp up the regulatory focus on fund liquidity.
21 Mar 2023
Podcast series: A Just Transition
Series 3, Episode 5: Avoiding financing ourselves into extinction
We’re joined by guest Andrew Mitchell, Vice Chair of the TNFD, the task force on nature related financial disclosures and the founder and CEO of Equilibrium Futures, to discuss the risk to nature and biodiversity and the important role the finance industry plays.
30 Jul 2024
Series 3, Episode 4: The big "G" in ESG
We're joined by guest Mark Crathern, head of NatWest Trustee & Depository Services, who has picked three important aspects, of the very broad topic of governance, to discuss.
21 May 2024
Series 3, Episode 3: Top three ESG trends for 2024
In this episode we have invited our guest David Postlethwaite, associate director, ESG at KPMG Crown dependencies to choose his top three ESG trends for 2024.
11 Mar 2024