Sector-Specific Screening Guidelines

New sector specific guidance for nature related risks. An excellent new guide out from Ceres and Nature Action 100 which provides a framework for investors to understand how businesses impact and depend on nature. Nature impacts and dependencies vary from sector to sector and from company to company, creating different levels of risk exposure for companies. The key sectors deemed systemically important in reversing nature and biodiversity loss include: - biotechnology and pharmaceuticals - chemicals - consumer goods retail - food - food and beverage retail - forestry and packaging - household and personal products - metals and mining. The guide highlight impacts and dependencies for the eight priority sectors of Nature Action 100, a global investor engagement initiative focused on driving greater corporate ambition and action to reverse nature and biodiversity loss. #esg #nature #esgrisk

Divergent expectations by competent authorities of the internal policies, procedures and controls financial institutions put in place for restrictive measures make it difficult for FIs to adopt an effective approach To address these challenges, the EBA issued two sets of guidelines that set common EU standards on the governance arrangements and the policies, procedures and controls financial institutions should have in place to be able to comply with restrictive measures. 🔔 'Guidelines on internal policies, procedures and controls to ensure the implementation of Union and national restrictive measures' cover: 📍 Governance framework and the role of the management body 📍 Conducting a restrictive measures exposure assessment 📍 Ensuring the ongoing effectiveness of restrictive measures policies, procedures and controls 📍 Training 🔔 'Guidelines on internal policies, procedures and controls to ensure the implementation of Union and national restrictive measures under Regulation (EU) 2023/1113' cover: Restrictive measures screening 📍 Choice of screening system 📍 List management 📍 Defining the set of data to be screened 📍 Screening the customer base 📍 Screening of transfers of funds and crypto-assets 📍 Calibration 📍 Reliance on third parties and outsourcing  Due diligence and verification measures for alert analysis 📍 Policies and procedures for the management and analysis of alerts 📍 Due diligence measures for alert analysis 📍 Assessing whether an entity is owned or controlled by a designated person 📍 Controls and due diligence measures to comply with sectoral restrictive measures 📍 Due diligence measures to detect attempts to circumvent restrictive measures Freezing and reporting measures 📍 Suspending the execution of transfers of funds and freezing funds 📍 Freezing of transfers of crypto-assets 📍 Reporting measures 📍 Procedures for exemptions or when restrictive measures are lifted Ensuring the ongoing effectiveness of restrictive measures screening policies, procedures and systems 🚨 These Guidelines apply from 30 December 2025. #sanctions #sanctionsscreening #ffe #fintrail #aml #riskassessment