Screening

Screening is a process of applying filters to lists of potential investments or activities, ruling borrowers, issuers in or out of contention for investment based on an investor’s preferences, values or ethics, or regulation and law.

In the ESG context, filters are typically based on including - or excluding - certain sectors, issuers or securities based on ESG performance relative to industry peers or specific ESG criteria.

See also

• Best-in-class screening
• Borrower
• Due diligence
• Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
• Ethics
• International trade
• Investment
• Investor
• Issuer
• Law
• Negative screening
• Norms-based screening
• OFAC
• Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
• Payment
• Peer
• Positive screening
• Regulation
• Sanctions
• Sanctions screening
• Security
• Technical Screening Criteria