ESG / Sustainability

    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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