sustainable finance

Transition finance: Asia grapples with uncertainty, eyes progress

Chaoni Huang, at the Hong Kong Green Finance Association and BNP Paribas, tells FA that taxonomy and definition uncertainties are hampering Apac’s transition finance market, and that growing interest and standardisation attempts should help.

November 19, 2024

Tessa Dann to lead SocGen’s Apac sustainable finance team

Sydney-based Dann to lead SocGen’s sustainable finance unit across Asia Pacific after previously running Australia and New Zealand.

September 16, 2024

Crédit Agricole CIB appoints Laurent Potin to lead Taiwan

Potin has relocated from Tokyo to Taipei, to oversee the firm's corporate and investment banking business.

April 09, 2024

CFA Institute helps drive Hong Kong’s green hub status

Paul Moody, managing director, global partnerships & client solutions, at the global professional body, told FA that demand in the SAR for green finance is a gateway into mainland China, and shared his thoughts on COP28.

April 02, 2024

SocGen appoints Apac head of sustainable and positive impact finance

Paul-Antoine Thiebot was previously director, energy transition and sustainable finance, overseeing the banks's regional mandate of the sustainable and positive impact finance group.

March 28, 2024

Navigating ‘transition finance’ in Apac

Interest in transition finance is growing, however, despite some countries, including Japan, taking a lead, such vehicles face many challenges, such as low comparability and tech uncertainty.

March 19, 2024

Deal Analysis: Hong Kong’s HK$6bn digital green bond offering

After the world’s first multi-currency digital bond offering was oversubscribed, a government spokesperson told FA that tokenised bonds are moving from ‘proof of concept’ into ‘production’.

March 05, 2024

Steel industry secures pathfinding transition finance

Bank of China has tapped the European bond market to finance steel projects in Hebei province, in a first of a kind issuance involving a financial institution.

October 17, 2023

Have we hit a sustainability plateau? Interview with Andrew Chew, director of sustainable finance at ING Bank

Chew shares with FA his thoughts on sustainability structures amid increasingly challenging margins.

October 10, 2023

Transition finance opportunity across GBA

Ahead of the institute’s annual forum that is set to take place this week, the HKGFA team shares its view of sustainability opportunity across HK and GBA.

October 03, 2023