SINGAPORE, 12 November 2025 –
ESGpedia has supported several financial institutions to enhance their respective sustainability programmes, to enable companies and SMEs on Sustainability-Linked Financing, credible greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction, and to strengthen sustainability capability.
The financial institutions include banks such as CIMB, Maybank, and OCBC, as well as the Mongolian Sustainable Finance Association (MSFA).
ESGpedia’s one-stop sustainability digital platform covering carbon accounting and ESG reporting solutions help companies effectively quantify and account for carbon emissions from various business activities, and generate Sustainability Reports, in accordance with international reporting frameworks and ISO 14064 methodologies.
ESGpedia has partnered with the banks and associations to enhance their Sustainable-Linked Financing programmes and ESG risk monitoring capabilities, overall helping the financial institutions advance their sustainable finance strategy.
Within a year, ESGpedia has supported more than ten financial institutions across Asia to provide over 250 Sustainability-Linked Loans (SLLs) – a significant milestone in advancing credible, data-driven sustainable finance across the region.
Leveraging the ESGpedia platform, the banks unlock capabilities to actively engage their client ecosystem, from data collection, emissions calculation, to monitoring of Sustainability Performance Targets (SPTs) linked to the banks’ SLLs. Financial institutions are able to fully customise their assessment content towards their sustainability requirements, and incentivise their ecosystem by offering preferential financing rates, promoting brand loyalty and driving sustainability adoption amongst businesses while keeping costs and resources manageable.
By embedding ESG criteria into risk assessments, the financial institutions achieved better climate-related risk mitigation, and were able to drive climate action and effectively mobilise capital towards meaningful impact.
Many businesses have successfully leveraged ESGpedia to get connected with partner banks and access various sustainable financing programmes, advancing their ESG strategies, enhancing operational resilience, and strengthening their appeal to investors and customers.
CIMB Singapore – SME Sustainability-Linked Loan/Financing (SLL/SLF) Programme
CIMB Singapore has partnered with ESGpedia for its SME Sustainability-Linked Loan/Financing Programme (SME SLL/SLF Programme). Launched in 2024, the partnership has since enabled more than 100 companies to set credible greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets, unlocking rebate on their interest/profit rates payable on their loan/financing upon successful verification of the achieved targets.
The programme stands out in the market by offering tiered KPIs linked to tiered interest/profit rate discounts – with greater rebates from Year 2 onwards, based on the client’s achievement of their Sustainability Performance Targets (SPTs), to incentivise better performance. Overall, the partnership with ESGpedia has helped CIMB channel more financing towards impactful outcomes in a simple, transparent, and scalable manner.
Read full Case Study article with CIMB Singapore
Maybank – myimpact SME Programme
Maybank has strengthened its myimpact SME Programme through a partnership with ESGpedia. Launched in November 2024, the myimpact-ESGpedia collaboration has enabled SMEs to quantify GHG emissions, set achievable decarbonisation targets, and generate their Sustainability Reports. Through the digital assessment on ESGpedia, Maybank can seamlessly monitor clients’ progress on SPTs linked to SLLs, strengthening the bank’s ability to guide customers along their decarbonisation journey while deepening engagement with the wider SME community.
Participants in the myimpact SME Programme have reported tangible benefits, from enhanced operational efficiency to stronger business credibility with partners and regulators.
Read full Case Study article with Maybank
Mongolian Sustainable Finance Association (MSFA) – Switching On the Green Economy (SOGE) Project
Having first connected at Singapore FinTech Festival two years ago, MSFA has partnered with ESGpedia on the Switching On the Green Economy (SOGE) project to develop a centralised Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system starting with one of Mongolia’s key economic sectors, the agri-food sector. A first-of-its-kind, the partnership lays the foundation for a national ESG data repository to enhance market access to sustainable and green financing instruments and incentives.
MSFA utilised ESGpedia’s digital platform to introduce a structured, centralised solution for enterprise ESG assessments, verifications, and data-driven analysis. The platform connects key stakeholders – from enterprises to certification bodies – to streamline sustainability data collection and evaluation.
Through this initiative, companies can unlock access to sustainable finance opportunities, supporting their long-term growth and transition.
Read full Case Study article with MSFA
OCBC – SME Start-ESG Programme
ESGpedia supports OCBC in its SME Start-ESG Programme, to offer SMEs with a simplified, cost-effective, and reliable platform that helps SMEs obtain a baseline measurement of their sustainability metrics, specifically GHG emissions, as a pre-requisite to attaining SLLs from OCBC.
Using the verified emissions from ESGpedia, OCBC structured SLLs to SMEs like Velocity Stone and Ollo, to fund their sustainability related initiatives, supporting them with tools to improve their sustainability performance and stay competitive to meet sustainability criteria required by large corporate customers.
Benjamin Soh, Founder and Managing Director at ESGpedia, said: “We are delighted to be supporting our partners CIMB, Maybank, MSFA, and OCBC in their respective sustainability programmes. Sustainable finance serves as a foundation for businesses driving their green transition today. Through the platform’s Sustainable Financing module, ESGpedia strengthens capabilities and facilitates the tracking of sustainability outcomes against financial incentives. We remain committed to bridging the gap and empowering both financial institutions and businesses alike in advancing their sustainability strategies.”
As ESGpedia joins the Singapore FinTech Festival 2025 from 12 to 14 November – celebrating the event’s tenth anniversary – the spotlight is on the meaningful partnerships forged over the years with financial institutions in the region, and the pivotal role of technology in “Shaping the Next Decade of Growth,” this year’s festival theme.
A key advantage highlighted across ESGpedia’s partnerships with the multiple financial institutions is that technology platforms like ESGpedia allow banks to roll out their Sustainability-Linked Financing programmes efficiently, without the need for extensive in-house digital infrastructure development. This accelerates the banks’ go-to-market and effectively improves accessibility to sustainability-linked financing for their customers.
These improvements in efficiency and capability due to the adoption of technology matter because banks play a pivotal role in accelerating the region’s sustainability transition. By offering practical digital solutions, ecosystem support, and linking sustainability outcomes with financial incentives, financial institutions can bridge short-term business needs with long-term environmental impact, incentivise greener business models, and shape the agenda through financial flows.
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Grace Lim, Vice President – Marketing & Communications
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About ESGpedia
ESGpedia (ESGpedia Pte Ltd) is Asia’s leading ESG data and technology company, headquartered in Singapore. The ESGpedia platform powers the ESCAP Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) Asia-Pacific Green Deal digital platform and the Asia-Pacific Single Accesspoint for ESG Data (SAFE) initiative. With more than 5 million sustainability data points, ESGpedia serves as the Nexus of ESG, digitally empowering corporates, SMEs, and the financial sector to ensure compliance towards ESG regulations and attain their ESG goals. ESGpedia is GRI-licensed and ISO 14064-validated. For more information, please visit www.esgpedia.io.
