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Tuesday-Friday, 1-4 June 2021, Virtual Event
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Overview of the Event
With unanimous support from the ASIFMA Sustainable Finance WG and AAMG ESG Group, ASIFMA is bringing a new conference to its core line up, bringing together the key capital markets experts, policymakers, and innovators to discuss and debate issues ranging from climate-related financial risk management and capacity building on sustainability, to scaling sustainable finance and ESG across Asia and reorienting the financial system to meet climate objectives like Paris.
Dates: Tuesday – Friday, 1-4 June 2021
Time: Day 1, and 4 – starting from 9am (GMT+8) daily
Day 2 and 3 – starting from 2pm (GMT+8) daily
Format: Virtual
Language: English
Prices:
Standard Rates (on or after 18 May 2021)
- HKD780 (USD99) (ASIFMA Members and Endorser Referral) / HKD980 (USD125) (Non-Members)
Early Bird Rates (on or before 17 May 2021)
- HKD670 (USD85) (ASIFMA Members and Endorser Referral) / HKD830 (USD105) (Non-Members)
CPT Hours:
- Day 1 (Tuesday, 1 June): Building Blocks / Enablers (2.5 CPT Hours)
- Day 2 (Wednesday, 2 June): Building Blocks / Enablers (continued) (2.5 CPT Hours)
- Day 3 (Thursday, 3 June): Market Development (3.0 CPT Hours)
- Day 4 (Friday, 4 June): Looking into the Future (3.0 CPT Hours)
To qualify for the CPT hours mentioned above, participants are required to attend the entire event on each day.
Event Lead Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
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At ASIFMA, we are committed to ensuring diversity and inclusion in our workplace and this policy is applied in all areas of our business including speaker roles at our events and conferences. We wish to work with members and partners who share this same commitment and are willing to support this policy.
Agenda
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Agenda
| Day 1 | BUILDING BLOCKS/ENABLERS (TUESDAY, 1 JUNE 2021) |
| 09:00 – 09:05 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:05 – 09:20 | Keynote 1 |
| 09:20 – 09:35 | Keynote 2 |
| 09:35 – 10:35 | Panel 1: Taxonomy: Jurisdictional, Regional and Global Approaches |
| 10:35 – 10:45 | Presentation: AAMG Paper: What Institutional Investors Expect from Corporate Issuers’ ESG Disclosure |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | Panel 2: Corporate Disclosure and Data |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Closing Keynote |
| 12:00 – 12:03 | Closing Remarks |
| Day 2 | BUILDING BLOCKS/ENABLERS (CONTINUED) (WEDNESDAY, 2 June 2021) |
| 14:00 – 14:02 | Opening Remarks |
| 14:02 – 14:05 | Welcome Remarks |
| 14:05 – 14:20 | Opening Keynote 1 |
| 14:20 – 14:35 | Opening Keynote 2 |
| 14:35 – 15:35 | Panel 1: Capacity Building and Training for ESG and Sustainable Finance |
| 15:35 – 16:35 | Panel 2: ESG requirements on Financial Institutions: Disclosure, Risk Management and Stress Testing |
| 16:35 – 16:50 | Presentation: ESG Disclosure Landscape for Banks and Capital Markets (Report by AFME and Latham & Watkins) |
| 16:50 – 17:05 | Closing Keynote 1: A Roadmap to Address Climate-related Financial Risk: The Work of the FSB |
| 17:05 – 17:20 | Closing Keynote 2 |
| 17:20 – 17:23 | Closing Remarks |
| Day 3 | MARKET DEVELOPMENT (THURSDAY, 3 June 2021) |
| 14:00 – 14:02 | Opening Remarks |
| 14:02 – 14:05 | Welcome Remarks |
| 14:05 – 14:20 | Opening Keynote |
| 14:20 – 15:10 | Panel 1: Scaling Green and Sustainable Bonds and Securitization |
| 15:10 – 16:00 | Panel 2: A Role for Derivatives in ESG, Climate and Sustainable Finance |
| 16:00 – 16:50 | Panel 3: Why Green Equity and Transition Capital? |
| 16:50 – 17:05 | Closing Keynote |
| 17:05 – 17:25 | Demo: Analysing the Green Economy and Opportunities in Asia |
| 17:25 – 17:28 | Closing Remarks |
| Day 4 | LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE (FRIDAY, 4 June 2021) |
| 09:00 – 09:02 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:02 – 09:05 | Welcome Remarks |
| 09:05 – 09:20 | Keynote |
| 09:20 – 10:10 | Panel 1: Scaling and Incentivizing Climate Aligned Finance |
| 10:10 – 11:00 | Panel 2: Nature Capital Investing and Biodiversity |
| 11:00 – 11:50 | Panel 3: Getting the ‘S’ in ESG Right |
| 11:50 – 11:55 | Closing Remarks |
We are delighted to welcome over 400 participants including regulators, policy makers, issuers and treasurers, sell side and buy side representatives across Asia, UK and the US to this event.
If you wish to effectively engage an esteemed audience and connect with the global and regional community at our other events, various sponsorship packages with speaking slot inclusion and advertising opportunities are open to ASIFMA members and non-members for more brand and marketing exposure as well as increasing lead generation. For further details, please contact us at event@asifma.org ).
Event Lead Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Media Partners
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Reference Materials
From Sponsors
alliancebernstein
Responsibility at AB
BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas
Credit Suisse
Sustainable Investing – Credit Suisse
Fitch Ratings
2Q21 ESG Quarterly
Société Générale
Sustainable and Positive Impact Finance
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