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data-version="5"><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: initial;">THOUGHT LEADERSHIP</span></p></div> <div class="u_1321182104 dmNewParagraph" id="1321182104" data-element-type="paragraph" data-version="5" background-image":""}"="" style="text-align: left;"><p class="m-size-48 size-60"><span style="font-weight: bold; display: initial;" class="m-font-size-48 font-size-60">ESG Rating Agencies and Financial Regulation</span></p><p class="size-24 m-size-19"><span style="display: initial; font-weight: normal;" class="m-font-size-19 font-size-24">A Signalling Theory Approach</span><span style="display: initial; font-weight: 700;"><br/></span></p></div> <div class="dmNewParagraph" data-element-type="paragraph" id="1971690327" style="transition: opacity 1s ease-in-out;" data-version="5"><p class="text-align-left m-size-13 size-16"><span style="display: initial; font-weight: bold;" class="m-font-size-13 font-size-16">Authors</span></p><p class="text-align-left"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-cash-61684623/" runtime_url="https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-cash-61684623/" type="url" style="display: initial;" target="_blank">Daniel Cash<span class="ql-cursor"></span></a></p></div> <div class="imageWidget align-center u_1307406752" data-element-type="image" data-widget-type="image" id="1307406752"><img src="https://lirp.cdn-website.com/4a3587f5/dms3rep/multi/opt/9781035315048-1920w.jpg" alt="" id="1512276740" class="" data-dm-image-path="https://irp.cdn-website.com/4a3587f5/dms3rep/multi/9781035315048.jpg" width="200" height="300" onerror="handleImageLoadError(this)"/></div> <div class="u_1440505187 dmNewParagraph" id="1440505187" style="transition: none 0s ease 0s; display: block; text-align: center;" data-version="5"><p class="text-align-left"><span style="display: initial; font-weight: bold;">ESG Rating Agencies and Financial Regulation presents an essential and nuanced understanding of rating agencies through the utilisation of signalling theory. Daniel Cash provides fresh insight on the role of ESG rating agencies in the financial market and explores the relationship between ESG and modern business practices to explain the continued drive for effective ESG rating agencies.</span></p><p class="text-align-left"><span style="display: initial;"><br/></span></p><p class="text-align-left"><span style="display: initial;">ESG Rating Agencies and Financial Regulation presents an essential and nuanced understanding of rating agencies through the utilisation of signalling theory. Daniel Cash provides fresh insight on the role of ESG rating agencies in the financial market and explores the relationship between ESG and modern business practices to explain the continued drive for effective ESG rating agencies.<br/><br/>This cutting-edge book offers analyses of the latest regulatory endeavours involving ESG ratings while acknowledging the pitfalls of such agencies, including a lack of transparency and variant stakeholder preferences. Through the application of signalling theory, Cash concludes that while credit ratings agencies continue to prevail due to the sense of trust provided by the involvement of third parties in financial transactions, the same is not yet true of ESG rating agencies. Cash demonstrates that for these agencies to be truly efficient they must operate as an oligopoly, an approach that may seem uncomfortable to many. The book provides an up-to-date investigation of why a natural oligopoly is desired in the ESG rating space and summarises the consequences of this for both investors and regulators.<br/><br/>Academics and students of financial law, economics, and financial sustainability will find this book to be an invaluable resource. 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