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South Korea leads with ESG fund disclosure taskforce and anti-greenwash laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... preventing greenwashing and inducing responsible management. This comes as earlier in the week the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong proposed mandatory climate-related disclosure for its listed companies. According to non-profit The Asia Foundation, greenwashing ...

Hong Kong stock exchange proposes climate disclosures

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 APR 2023  |  NEWS
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong has proposed mandatory climate-related disclosure for its listed companies. The exchange has published a consultation paper that proposes enhancement of climate-related disclosures under its environmental, social and ...

Investor Group on Climate Change creates executive leadership position

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... served as a director and chair of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) as well as director of the Hong Kong-based Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA) and co-chaired the Technical Working Group in ...

FSI names new global head of responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... FSI. The recent additions follow on from the appointment of RI nature and biodiversity specialist Joanne Lee, based in Hong Kong earlier this year, and Sydney-based RI Analyst Will Bartlett last year, FSI noted. Turner's appointment and the increased ...

APRA to survey all regulated entities on climate vulnerability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... surveys conducted by the European Central Bank (ECB), the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) in designing the survey approach and format." APRA began a bottom-up supervisory climate vulnerability ...

Strong APAC demand for sustainable, impact assets: UBS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... carbon neutral target, Singapore has announced the Singapore Green Plan 2030 with detailed carbon-reduction targets and Hong Kong has launched a Green Bond Framework "intended to support sustainable development and facilitate regular issuance." In the ...

"War for talent": ESG professionals in high demand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... prominent over the next six to 12 months," Gvalda said. "We have definitely seen candidates coming from the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, and there is strong demand in those markets as well, so the back and forth will continue, which may or may not help ...

ESG integration challenged by regional regulation, data: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... strategies. In the APAC region, investor integration of ESG in markets including Australia, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong has seen regulators following to keep up pace, according to research insights from Northern Trust. "There is momentum on ...

APAC data centre operator inks $2.1bn sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... account to achieve our sustainability objectives." AirTrunk is a data centre specialist with operations in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. AirTrunk's existing corporate debt facilities were established in April 2020, and linking the $2.1 ...

NAB launches sustainability-linked derivatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... materiality and the reporting that's provided." In August, ANZ launched SLDs that will initially be sold in in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. The bank told FS Sustainability they to plans to launch this product in other major financial ...