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Key UK financial regulators mandated to consider climate issues

James S Murray

25 March 2021 •

Sunak speaks at a Bloomberg conference earlier this week | Credit: The Treasury

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Sunak speaks at a Bloomberg conference earlier this week | Credit: The Treasury

Chancellor demands that PCA and FCA take net zero target into account, just weeks after similarly updating key Bank of England regulators' remit

All of the UK's principal financial regulators now have an explicit mandate to consider climate-related risks and trends in their decisions, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer officially updated the...

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