IFC invests US$45.60 million in the climate financing facility targeting Indian renewables

Proceeds from US$89.6 million facility for purchase of lower-carbon emission LNG dual-fuel vessels

Allianz Global investors (AllianzGI) has launched a proprietary digital platform that provides access to environmental, social and governance (ESG) data. The Sustainability Insights Engine (SusIE) is a web-based user interface that computes external ESG data from multiple providers as well as AllianzGI proprietary scores and research inputs.

Key market concerns over delivery risk, pricing and fragmented liquidity in VCM addressed

Water-related challenges – whether there is too much or too little, or whether it is dirty and unsafe – are already fuelling chronic food and health insecurity in entire regions. To safeguard this most fundamental natural resource, we urgently need a new, global strategy to govern water for the common good.

Khan Bank, Mongolia’s largest commercial financial institution, has issued the first-ever green bond to be issued in the country, a US$60 million, five-year offering. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is investing US$15 million in the offering, which has attracted another US$45 million from international investors, including US$35 million from Dutch entrepreneurial development bank FMO and US$10 million from MicroVest Capital Management.

Singapore banking group DBS and private equity and venture capital investment firm Heritas Capital have announced the first close of the Asia Impact First Fund (AIFF). The fund has now raised over US$20 million, led by anchor investor DBS, which committed US$10 million, and like-minded impact-focused family offices, foundations, corporates and high-net-worth individuals.

DBS, Citi, MUFG, and HSBC take home accolades in The Asset Triple A Sustainable Capital Markets Awards 2023 as announced in an Oscar-style awards ceremony held last night (March 14) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong.

Reinvigorated IMAS pushes digitization, diversity, education post-pandemic

Insurer reduces GHG emissions per employee were reduced by 23% compared with 2019

Climate change is perhaps the most significant financial risk for investors over the long term, according to Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

Chinese fintech’s first sustainability-linked derivative incentivizes meeting various ESG targets

More female investors than men value sustainability, 9 in 10 wish to create more social change

Sustainable tourism, fisheries promoted along with marine conservation