All posts tagged "environmental risk"
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569AML / KYCESG Due Diligence: Setting a High Water Mark
Refinitiv's Wendy De Cruz talks to Regulation Asia about new supply chain laws reshaping industries and the challenges FIs face in enhancing due diligence practices.
October 6, 2021 -
515FeatureSingapore, US Agree to Cooperate on Cyber, Climate Risk
The climate partnership focuses on stronger collaboration on sustainable finance, standard setting, climate risk disclosures, and carbon markets.
August 24, 2021 -
286Hong KongHong Kong Launches Centre for Green and Sustainable Finance
The Centre will serve as a cross-sector platform to coordinate the transition efforts and serve as a repository for resources, data and analytics.
July 16, 2021 -
211Big PictureCorporate Governance Policy Frameworks Need Strengthening: OECD
The OECD says significantly fewer companies are using public equity markets, but that strengthening corporate governance policies and frameworks can help.
July 5, 2021 -
645Big PictureMAS Sets Out Climate Strategy in Inaugural Sustainability Report
Five asset managers have been appointed to manage S$1.8bn of Singapore's official foreign reserves under new mandates focused on climate change and the environment.
June 10, 2021 -
142Asia-PacificBSP Outlines Expectations for Banks on Sustainable Finance
Banks must establish environmental and social risk management systems and disclose their sustainability initiatives in their annual reports.
June 4, 2021 -
1.0KFeatureBNM Finalises ‘Climate Change and Principle-based Taxonomy’
The document introduces a progressive system of transition categories to acknowledge concrete efforts and commitments by businesses to adopt sustainable practices.
May 3, 2021 -
941Big PictureClimate Risk & Regulation: A Race to the Top
Bill Coen, Chair of the IFRS Advisory Council and former BCBS Secretary General, speaks to Regulation Asia about initiatives underway to mitigate climate-related risk in the banking sector.
March 23, 2021 -
1.1KAsia-PacificPwC Offers ESG Risk Management Recommendations for Banks
Banks need to adopt training and change management programmes to ensure employees embrace ESG risk management as a requirement and discipline.
March 10, 2021 -
1.0KContributed ArticleSingapore v EU: How Their Green Taxonomies Compare
Allen & Overy's Shuhui Kwok discusses Singapore's proposed green taxonomy, describing how it aligns with - and differs from - the EU Taxonomy Regulation.
February 11, 2021
