Key focus areas include promoting a greener financing system, resolving major financial risks, promoting financial opening-up, and cracking down on crypto trading.
August 4, 2021The 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, 2021Officials agree to explore cross-border financial regulation, carbon market trading linkages, and collaboration opportunities via their BIS Innovation Hub centres.
July 1, 2021From January, ESG funds will have to disclose how they attain their ESG focus, referencing the ESG criteria, measurement methodologies, and benchmarks used.
June 30, 2021The Nordic Centre was opened in collaboration with the central banks of Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
June 17, 2021The launch is part of a plan to expand the global reach of the BIS Innovation Hub, which includes the opening of Centres in Toronto, Frankfurt, Paris and Stockholm.
June 12, 2021The PBOC will begin quarterly assessments of 24 major banks on their green finance performance under a new evaluation system starting 1 July.
June 12, 2021Five 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, 2021Banks must establish environmental and social risk management systems and disclose their sustainability initiatives in their annual reports.
June 4, 2021The so-called "data-sharing hub" will allow data sharing between trusted institutions in a way that ensures that the source data can be used but not seen or moved.
June 2, 2021