Objectives

Arendt’s ESG regulatory experts team up with the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) to share their longstanding experience in SFDR and Taxonomy compliance support within the financial services sector.

This session will give you the opportunity to:

• Get fresh combined perspectives on the EU sustainable finance package
• Benefit from the valuable expertise of the regulatory and implementation teams from Arendt and LuxSE
• Learn through concrete case studies on disclosures implementation, and
• Understand how the market is adapting to the evolution of the sustainable finance disclosure regime

Content

• Introduction: The EU action plan on financing sustainable growth
• The EU Taxonomy Regulation
  • Link to various frameworks: SFDR, EU GBS, NFRD/CSRD, MiFID II
• Public reporting
  • The Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) /Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
• Funds-specific topics
  • The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)
  • MiFID II Delegated Act,
  • Disclosures under article 8 of the EU Taxonomy
  • Case studies (incl. greenwashing examples)
• Capital Markets
  • The EU Green Bond Standard Regulation (EU GBS) 
  • Case studies

Speakers

Antoine Peter (Manager, Arendt & Medernach) 

Paul Chahine (Sustainability Research Manager, Luxembourg Stock Exchange) (external) 

Paula Redondo Pereira (Head of Regulatory Affairs, Luxembourg Stock Exchange) (external)

Target Group

Legal, regulatory and compliance officers, risk managers, board members of regulated financial market participants in charge of ESG-related matters.

Note - This is not an introductory session and pre-knowledge of the EU sustainable finance regulatory package is recommended.

Duration

3 hours 

Language

English

Price

500 € (on details about invoice etc. you may contact our partner)

Registration

For this specific ESG session, please send an email to lgxacademy@luxse.com stating your interest for the session

Good to know (further ESG training service)

Should you wish to get a first understanding on ESG, Arendt recommends module 1 and module 2 of their e-learning (fully digital solution).

The modules will help you to:

• understand the importance of sustainable finance in today’s society and hear experts view on it
• understand key ESG concepts & definitions
• name sustainable risks
• define adverse impact
• give examples of sustainable investments

You find more information here.

The Luxembourg Stock Exchange proposes the online course “Fundamentals of Sustainable Finance”, which enables you to:

• Understand the most important concepts at the core of sustainable finance and acquire an overview of key concepts used in the market
• Receive an introduction to the wider world of sustainable finance and learn how it is being mainstreamed in different industries within the financial system
• Gain an overview on the EU-related regulations, where they are now, where we are heading and discover potential opportunities and challenges of sustainable finance in the EU

You find more information here. 

Collaboration external partner - GDPR 

This event is organised in collaboration with the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

Our partner is in charge of the registrations. By registering via their email address, you acknowledge that they will share the registered contacts with Arendt & Medernach before and after the event.

The Luxembourg Stock Exchange displays their details on data protection here.  

Arendt & Medernach displays detailed information on data protection in the privacy notice here. 

To register to the above session please contact: lgxacademy@luxse.com 

For more information on Arendt training service please contact us by e-mail at institute@arendt.com