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AsiamoneyAs banks focus more on climate adaptation across their businesses, are they conceding that mitigation efforts are futile?
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The Singapore regulator MAS has set guidelines for banks transitioning to net zero. Unusually, it cautions against moving too fast.
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MUFG’s vast balance sheet has the potential to make a considerable difference to Japan’s net-zero ambitions. But the bank won’t be pulling back from polluters, arguing that money needs to flow to where emissions are, not away from them.
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Farmland acquisition for transition agriculture has proved attractive to the climate-focused investment management franchises of large asset managers. Will real-asset investors follow suit?
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Corporate governance challenges and a lack of domestic demand have constrained ESG issuance in India so far. The blowout dual-tranche domestic rupee sovereign green bond in January could be set to change that.
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Trade and Development Bank of Mongolia is considered a pioneer in the resources-rich country. Its momentum on sustainability has gained more steam over the years.
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India is chipping away at the many obstacles on its way to achieving carbon neutrality by 2070. The path is uphill, but will its efforts pay off?
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The community of economies going green in a hurry has the unlikeliest of new members: coal-addicted Mongolia. Can the country shed its past?
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AsiamoneyAs more and more issuers jump on the environmental, social and governance bandwagon, it raises important questions.
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Asiamoney’s Leaders for Women survey recognises the banks that have done the most to encourage women in the workplace across Asia’s financial markets
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Men are increasingly championing the issue of diversity in banking and helping more women get a seat at the table. But their work is only just beginning.
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Four high-profile businesswomen in Japan are focusing on bringing big changes to the country’s ESG market.
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For proof of the power of female role models, look at Indonesia: the country is confounding stereotypes and narrowing the gender gap.
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Lesbian and bisexual women in banking in Asia struggle to win equal opportunities and defy society’s stereotypes.
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How are women in the banking industry paving the way for the next crop of female leaders? Asiamoney speaks to a handful of C-suite executives about their career paths and the advice they have for the younger generation.
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Women make up the majority of the workforce at banks in Thailand, but they still have a way to go before they are equally represented at the top of the banking ladder.
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Taiwan is a relatively bright spot for women in banking, largely thanks to the efforts, and sacrifices, made by bankers to break the glass ceiling.
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For all the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 crisis, it could bring some unexpected benefits for women in the banking industry, encouraging a better work-life balance.
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China Development Bank’s Rmb10 billion climate bond
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Lianhe Equator Environment Impact Assessment Co
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Research on climate-related information disclosure systems of the banking and insurance industry by CIB Research
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China Chengxin International Credit Rating
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Lisa Robins is one of the most senior women in banking in Asia, a rare example of a global business head for a multinational bank being based in the region.
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South Asia is in some ways a better place for women bankers than almost anywhere else in the region. But there are still serious problems.
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From Malaysia’s central bank to its largest commercial bank, women are at the helm — and they are actively working to promote the next crop of female leaders.
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Transaction banking has long appeared a male-dominated industry. But things have started to change.
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Private banking and wealth management, where it is common for the majority of the workforce to be women, is the only area of banking with anything like equality of representation. But women are often in junior relationship manager positions and thin out at the higher levels of management. Those women who have reached the top explain why their corner of the industry looks different to the rest and what can be done to make it better.
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The results are in and the signs are good. Asia’s banking industry appears to be making some progress on gender balance in the workforce.
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It was Chairman Mao who said Chinese women should play an equal role, working in the fields and factories: decades later, women are evident in the upper ranks of the financial sector, but seldom make it to the very top.