Reporting & Disclosures

    News Coverage on regulatory mandates, standards and challenges in ESG reporting and sustainability disclosures for financial and non-financial entities.

    Data Privacy

    Data Governance: Avoid the Damage of Data Restriction

    By Julia Walker | 16/09/2020

    Everledger’s Leanne Kemp and Refinitiv’s Julia Walker set out the urgent case for cross-border data flow, including to channel finance to sustainable investments.

    Reporting & Disclosures

    New Zealand to Introduce Mandatory Climate Risk Reporting

    By Manesh Samtani | 15/09/2020

    If approved by Parliament, the new comply-or-explain climate risk disclosure regime could come into effect in 2023 at the earliest.

    Reporting & Disclosures

    Standard-setters Kick Off Initiative to Harmonise Sustainability Reporting

    By Editors | 13/09/2020

    The IFRS Foundation is proposed as the body that is “optimally positioned” to lead and coordinate the creation of a new sustainability standards board.

    Climate Risk

    NGFS Seeks Wider Adoption of Environmental Risk Analysis at FIs

    By Editors | 10/09/2020

    The NGFS is calling for wider use of ERA in the financial industry, offering case studies to showcase the adoption of ERA tools and methodologies by some FIs.

    Reporting & Disclosures

    IOSCO to Harmonise Global ESG Disclosure Frameworks – Report

    By Editors | 10/09/2020

    A new IOSCO taskforce will work to identify commonalities across sustainability disclosure standards from across the world to develop principles-based guidelines.

    Sustainable Finance

    Green Finance Alliance for Greater Bay Area Launches

    By Editors | 06/09/2020

    The Alliance has been established to increase funding channels for green projects and guide government policies and investment projects.

    Structural Regulation

    Letter from SGX RegCo Chairman and CEO for FY2020

    By Prof Tan Cheng Han | 04/09/2020

    SGX RegCo’s chairman and CEO share lessons from the Covid-19 on building immunity, taking a proportionate response and increasing resilience.

    ESG Data

    Taiwan CSD Launches Consolidated Access to ESG Ratings

    By Editors | 27/08/2020

    FTSE Russell, ISS ESG, MSCI and Sustainalytics have collaborated with TDCC to launch a new ESG Dashboard that provides consolidated access to ESG ratings.

    Reporting & Disclosures

    Taiwan FSC Releases Corporate Governance, Sustainability Roadmap

    By Editors | 26/08/2020

    From 2024, all financial firms and listed companies with paid-in capital over $340mn will be required to have at least one-third of their boards made up of independent directors.

    Sustainable Finance

    Taiwan FSC Unveils Green Finance Action Plan 2.0

    By Lucy Zhang | 20/08/2020

    The action plan seeks to promote green and sustainable financial markets, improve ESG disclosures, and establish a classification standard for the financial industry.

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