We combine local operational and credit expertise with deep understanding and experience of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities, requirements and standards to deliver three primary services:
- Lender/Servicer ESG Sustainability Assessment
- Origination (pre-securitisation) ESG due diligence review
- Ongoing ESG surveillance
Through these service we aim is to deliver:
- Effective, comprehensive and relevant review of lenders, servicers and origination platforms, covering their policies and practices, to support the enhancement of their sustainability and ESG standards; and to provide independent assessment and reassurance to investors
- Independent assurance of performance against ESG standards across lending portfolios.
- Identification and disclosure of ESG risks and opportunities within loan and asset portfolios to enable transparency and comparability
- Surveillance and reporting of adherence to ESG policies and practices to provide ongoing transparency and reassurance to investors in platforms, portfolios and securitisations
In this way we enable:
Lenders and servicers to:
- Enhance their ESG standards and practices,
- Demonstrate and promote those standards (to investors and other stakeholders)
- Compare their approaches to emerging best practice in ESG in financial services
- Provide initial and ongoing reassurance to funders and investors
Securitisation programmes to:
- Meet the requirements and expectations of market stakeholders
- Broaden the investor base and increase liquidity
- Provide initial and ongoing transparency to investors
Investors to:
- Evaluate investments against their ESG mandates
- Monitor continuing ESG compliance
- Meet transparency needs