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Europe: UK’s FCA Intensifies Scrutiny on Private Markets Valuations
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Australia: Regulation for ESG Ratings Agencies Gathers Pace

Europe: UK’s FCA Intensifies Scrutiny on Private Markets Valuations

Apr 07 2025
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By: Daniel Greenaway and Flavio Picaro

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has published the findings of its multi-firm review of valuation processes for private market assets. This review follows the highlighting of vulnerabilities in private markets stemming, in part, from opaque valuations, in both the Bank of England’s June 2024 Financial Stability Report and IOSCO’s September 2023 report on emerging risks in private finance markets.

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Australia: Regulation for ESG Ratings Agencies Gathers Pace

Jul 18 2023
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By Jim Bulling and Kai Luck

With increased demand for “ESG friendly” investments (in an ESG investment market on track to exceed US $53 trillion globally by 2025), asset managers, funds management companies, superannuation funds and other investors are actively turning to ESG ratings agencies to guide their decisions.

As it currently stands, there is significant potential for discrepancy in the ratings being produced. This is confusing and potentially misleading for investors and may also divert capital away from its intended direction. 

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