About The Guest
Prachurjya Bharaly, Associate Director Investment Banking
Acuity Knowledge Partners
Prachurjya has over 16 years of experience in investment banking with Acuity Knowledge Partners. At Acuity, he has led sector and product-specialist pilot teams across Capital Markets, ESG, Debt Advisory, Loan Syndications, Metals & Mining and Real Estate. He has been actively involved in setting up and on-boarding new ESG Advisory, ESG DCM and Sustainable Finance teams for various bulge bracket investment banks. Within DCM and Rating Advisory, he has been instrumental in helping the clients achieve over 30% in annual savings on both regular and adhoc tasks through standardization of the outputs and deployment of our proprietary BEAT tools.
Episode Description
Ananta and Prachurjya discuss on the benefits that companies gain if they start focusing on improving their ESG ratings and the challenges of working with multiple agencies who have their own reporting methodologies. They also speak about the importance of internal and external stakeholder support in aligning their ESG strategy roadmap in compliance with global regulatory requirements.
Key Takeaways
- Focus on ESG ratings helps companies gain access to capital at lower costs while increasing their operational efficiency.
- A strong ESG track record enables companies attract higher number of institutional investors, and better understand potential areas of business improvement.
- Acuity does a thorough assessment of sustainability performance for investment banks and advisory firms against various ESG parameters.
- Acuity empowers investment banks in manageing various financial instruments like green bonds, social bonds, sustainability-linked bonds, and sustainability-linked loans.
