ESG

Bank of America today announced it has established an ESG-themed Issuance Framework (the “Framework”) to further enhance its issuances of green, social, and sustainability bonds and other ESG securities by Bank of America Corporation or any of its subsidiaries.

Asia Business

Tokyo: A Global Financial City

November 17, 2021

Tokyo is often forgotten about as one of the world’s major economic hubs. This is something the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) is looking to fix.

Events Fintech

What is happening at Singapore Fintech Festival this year?

October 22, 2021

Over three days, the Festival will bring together global knowledge sharing from leading academics, practitioners and thought leaders across 45 reimagined sessions covering designing, building and ensuring sustainable financial services for Web 3.0.

Press Release

Coalition of Banks Launches Guide for Industry’s Transition to Net Zero

October 20, 2021

Global banks face significant opportunities and challenges when aligning their portfolios with net zero pathways, due to the diverse nature of their business, helping to meet client needs in different sectors and geographies. This guide provides a toolkit that can be used across all sectors and geographies.

Asia Sustainability ESG Technology

Guangzhou: The Beating Heart of China’s Electric Vehicles Push

October 20, 2021

The development of electric vehicles can almost be read as a case-study in the success of the Chinese economy since the late seventies: an example of the long-term economic planning, and shrewd government investment, that has allowed the private sector to flourish – albeit under the iron fist of the state.

Events

Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing talks sustainability at Sibos

October 15, 2021

The capital provided by Hong Kong’s markets will be crucial in financing China’s – and the wider region’s – path to a net-zero future. It will be to Hong Kong that businesses and entrepreneurs across Asia look to find the capital needed to build the green infrastructure and the transformative products of the future. As economies across the continent continue to develop, and become more economically sophisticated, it will be cash originating in Hong Kong that will wean them off coal and onto green energy.

Press Release

ISDA Launches Future Leaders in Derivatives Program

October 13, 2021

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) has launched a new professional development program for emerging leaders in the derivatives market to help support their career progression and enable them to gain experience of working alongside other practitioners from all parts of the derivatives industry.

Events

Société Générale’s Frédéric Oudéa identifies his big three banking trends at Sibos

October 13, 2021

What did Société Générale’s Frédéric Oudéa identify as his big three “main trends” in banking?

Capital Markets

Digitising Debt Capital Markets with Origin

October 8, 2021

Clearly the big advantage of this product is speed: Origin are making it quicker and easier to participate in the debt capital markets. We asked Raja, therefore, if the ultimate aim of this technology is to increase volume on the bond markets: would greater streamlining and more automated processes augment the amounts being traded in this space?

Press Release

People, not products, are the future of banking, finds Economist Intelligence Unit report for Temenos

September 30, 2021

A new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit published today by Temenos, the banking software company, reveals that four in five bankers believe that financial institutions will seek to differentiate themselves on customer experience rather than on their products and services in the next four years.

Not Listed

Public Listings with the London Stock Exchange and Money 20/20

September 22, 2021

As Julia summed up, "a listing is for life and not just for Christmas." It is important that listings are done at the right time and in the right way; and in a manner that acknowledges and respects the values a company has – and wishes to retain.

Press Release

BSO partners with ImpactScope becoming the first connectivity provider to offer carbon offsetting for crypto traders

September 14, 2021

BSO, in partnership with Geneva-based ImpactScope, a social enterprise providing carbon offsetting solutions to digital asset exchanges and crypto mining companies, has become the first connectivity provider to offer clients that trade cryptocurrencies the means to calculate and offset the excess carbon emissions of their operations.

Press Release

ISDA Publishes Papers to Further Develop ESG Standards and Accounting Practices

September 7, 2021

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) has today launched two new whitepapers examining key aspects of the fast-growing market for environmental, social and governance (ESG) transactions, with the aim of establishing robust standards and best practices for this sector.

Banking

Questions that UBS Banking & Financial Services Clients are raising today

August 13, 2021

The findings of UBS' Banking and Financial Services Division are interesting. They reflect the major concerns of their clients as global economies emerge tentatively from the disruption of the pandemic.

Sustainability ESG

What can banks do to help combat climate change?

August 12, 2021

What is needed, then, is a genuine green finance revolution. Investing in green debt, for example, would have a much greater long-term impact than directing capital to the same conventional companies who are simply claiming to have strengthened their dedication to ESG.

Asia Sustainability ESG

What is changing the Japanese approach to ESG?

August 4, 2021

Economic stagnancy has also reduced the ability (or desire) of companies to invest in green alternatives. Japanese companies have long been wary of investing and prefer to sit on piles of cash, reducing both innovation and the amount of investment that is pumped into green transformation.

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