  Recently, we have derived light-cone sum rules for exclusive B-meson decays
into light energetic hadrons from correlation functions within soft-collinear
effective theory. In these sum rules the short-distance scale refers to
``hard-collinear'' interactions with virtualities of order \Lambda_{QCD} m_b.
Hard scales (related to virtualities of order m_b^2) are integrated out and
enter via external coefficient functions in the sum rule. Soft dynamics is
encoded in light-cone distribution amplitudes for the B-meson, which describe
both the factorizable and non-factorizable contributions to exclusive B-meson
decay amplitudes. Factorization of the correlation function has been verified
to one-loop accuracy. Thus, a systematic separation of hard, hard-collinear,
and soft dynamics in the heavy-quark limit is possible.
