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Sustainable Finance Awards 2026: Latin America
This year's regional winners advanced sustainability by issuing green, blue, social, and transition bonds while funding renewable energy projects across LatAm.
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Sustainable Finance Awards 2026: Middle East
Sustainable finance in the Middle East is growing, but the region still faces major funding gaps and climate-adaptation pressures.
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Sustainable Finance Awards 2026: North America
North American sustainable-finance issuance suffered due to ESG backlash and regulatory tensions, but Canada remained resilient and adaptation finance emerged.
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Sustainable Finance Awards 2026: Western Europe
Western Europe’s sustainable-finance market slowed in 2025, but stricter standards, improved disclosures, and major deals kept issuance strong across banks.
Winner Insights
Nordea’s Juho Maalahti: Strengthening Transparency And Alignment
Juho Maalahti, head of Sustainable Finance Advisory at Nordea—this year’s Best Bank for Sustainability Transparency in Western Europe—discusses the next phase of sustainable finance and the impact of regulatory uncertainty.
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QNB Türkiye’s Yeliz Ataay Arıkök: Hitting SF Milestones
Yeliz Ataay Arıkök, director of Treasury Sales and Finan-cial Institutions and chair of the Sustainability Committee at QNB Türkiye—this year’s Best Bank for Blue Bonds in CEE region—discusses her bank’s role in the sector.
Award Ceremonies and Events
Best Investment Banks and Sustainable Finance Awards Ceremony 2025
Leaders from across the industry attended to recognise organisations that have navigated global uncertainty and market conditions, delivering both returns...
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Sustainable Finance Awards 2025: Global And Country Winners
A record year for sustainable bonds, but is the global compact cracking? For sustainable finance, 2024 was the best of...
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Sustainable Finance Awards 2025: Asia-Pacific
Across Asia, banks are deeply embedding adherence to both general ESG principles and the UN Sustainable Development Goals into their...
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Sustainable Finance Awards 2025: Middle East
The Persian Gulf states’ transition to a low-carbon future is driven by their governments’ efforts at diversification and collaboration. All...
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Turkey Turns Green: Q&A With Akbank CEO Kaan Gür
Akbank CEO Kaan Gür offers his views on Turkey’s shifting sustain-ability agenda and why his bank has adapted its ESG...
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Banks Boost Transition To Energy Finance: Q&A With Standard Bank CIB’s Sasha Cook
Sasha Cook, head of Sustainable Finance at Standard Bank CIB, explains how domestic banks are helping to close the energy-investment...