LMA publishes its first-ever Sustainable Finance Insights Report on Greenwashing: Understanding and Navigating the Impacts for the Loan Market.
13 March 2025
LMA publishes its first-ever Sustainable Finance Insights Report on Greenwashing: Understanding and Navigating the Impacts for the Loan Market.
Recent greenwashing rules, guidance and initiatives have quickly developed across the UK and the EU in response to concerns about consumers and investors being misled by sustainability claims. But to what extent have these rules and regulations brought more clarity? And what has been the wider impact on the loan market?
Today, the LMA in collaboration with King & Spalding, has published the first of its Sustainable Finance Insights Report series on, 'Greenwashing: Understanding and navigating the impacts for the loan market’.
In order to provide insights into the impact of greenwashing risk on the loan market, the LMA and King & Spalding held a series of roundtables and discussions. The views gathered from a range of market participants during these discussions have helped to inform this report.
The aim of the report is to provide market insights across the following areas:
- how banks and private credit fund managers are responding to the new greenwashing rules, guidance and initiatives in the UK and EU;
- the extent to which the focus on greenwashing (including but not limited to recent regulatory developments) is impacting the appetite for and approach to green, social and sustainability-linked loan (GSS) products;
- the steps being taken by banks and private credit fund managers to identify and address greenwashing risk; and
- areas identified where uncertainty remains and where the LMA is looking to support the GSS market.
To read the full report, please click here.
If you’d like to find out more, please contact Hannah.vanstone@lma.eu.com and Sukhvir.Basran@KSLAW.com.