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Climate Risk
Reporting on regulatory responses, risk management practices, and financial impacts of climate-related risks, including physical and transitional risks.
Liquidity Risk
ECB Announces Changes to Operational Framework
By Editors | 14/03/2024
The ECB will shrink its balance sheet, purge the system of excess liquidity, and incentivise banks to lend to each other.
Sustainable Finance
China Pledges to More Support for Innovation, Green Development
By Editors | 14/03/2024
The NFRA is looking to enrich the green financial product ecosystem, and potentially using state-run asset managers to invest in innovative firms.
Climate Risk
Australia Publishes First National Climate Risk Assessment
By Manesh Samtani | 12/03/2024
The priority risks identified are now undergoing a second, more detailed technical assessment, scheduled for completion by end 2024.
Sustainable Finance
DBS Updates Policy to Phase-out Thermal Coal Exposures
By Nithya Subramanian | 11/03/2024
The new policy is seen to be more in line with Singapore’s sustainable finance taxonomy, which seeks to promote the early phase-out coal plants.
Climate Risk
OJK Indonesia Launches Climate Risk Guidance for Banks
By Editors | 10/03/2024
The guidance comprises six books that aim to standardise climate risk management frameworks at banks and establish uniform scenarios and methodologies.
Sustainable Finance
Korea to Launch Carbon-linked ETNs for Retail Investors
By Editors | 08/03/2024
Korea’s Ministry of Environment, KRX and local securities firms are working to launch ETNs linked to carbon allowances by August this year.
Reporting & Disclosures
US SEC Adopts Mandatory Climate Disclosure Rules
By Manesh Samtani | 07/03/2024
The final rules allow large companies to report Scope 1 and 2 emissions only if they are material, and remove requirements to also disclose Scope 3 emissions.
Reporting & Disclosures
Too Much Leeway Offered by Updated ASEAN Taxonomy
By ESG Investor | 07/03/2024
Second version of the voluntary guidance limits utility to investors by allowing companies and countries to “pick and choose”.
Credit Risk
RBNZ Considers Ways to Build Climate Risk into Credit Risk Weights
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 07/03/2024
When considering any future changes to the approach to setting risk weights, the RBNZ will ensure they are data-driven and explicitly linked to financial risk.
Reporting & Disclosures
SGX RegCo Consults On Integrating ISSB Standards Into Listing Rules
By Nithya Subramanian | 07/03/2024
SGX RegCo proposes to make it mandatory for listed companies to report on sustainability, compared to the current “comply or explain” approach.
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