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Capital / Liquidity
Capital Rules Can Cushion Banks’ Fossil Fuel Exposure: Report
By ESG Investor | 04/10/2022
Prudential regulators should increase the risk weighting applied to major banks’ fossil fuel assets, Finance Watch says in a new report.
ESG / Sustainability
BSP Issues Guidance for Banks on E&S Risk Management
By Manesh Samtani | 04/10/2022
Banks must develop ESRM systems that assess environmental and social risks arising from their operations, products, services, transactions, activities, and operating environment.
ESG / Sustainability
TWSE Issues Governance Guidance for Listed Company Directors
By Editors | 04/10/2022
The guidance provides a reference for how independent directors should be selected, how they should perform their duties, and their role in audit committees.
ESG / Sustainability
An Increasing Sense of Urgency
By ESG Investor | 03/10/2022
Satoshi Ikeda, Chief Sustainable Finance Officer at Japan’s Financial Services Agency, is targeting increased action among asset owners.
ESG / Sustainability
FMSB Publishes Spotlight Review on Voluntary Carbon Markets
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 02/10/2022
The spotlight review details the key challenges of VCMs and offers recommendations to help in their transition into a mature asset class.
ESG / Sustainability
Fed Plans Climate-risk Pilot for US Banks
By ESG Investor | 02/10/2022
The participating banks are Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo.
Capital / Liquidity
EBA Considers Assessing Climate in Regular Bank Stress Tests
By Editors | 02/10/2022
The EBA has kicked off high level discussions on how to incorporate climate risks in regular stress tests that take place every two years.
ESG / Sustainability
China Designates 18 ‘Gatekeepers’ for Green Bond Market
By Darien Choong | 02/10/2022
The 18 firms, which include PwC, EY and Morningstar’s China units, will be responsible for evaluating and certifying green bonds and help to prevent greenwashing.
ESG / Sustainability
Singapore Exchange Launches Battery Metal Futures
By Editors | 02/10/2022
Contracts were launched in battery-grade lithium carbonate; lithium hydroxide; cobalt metal; and cobalt hydroxide.
ESG / Sustainability
ISDA Analyses Regulatory Treatment of SLDs in Hong Kong
By Editors | 02/10/2022
The paper considers how SLDs would be classified and regulated, and the compliance issues for market participants to consider when executing SLDs.
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