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28 Jan EU-China’s Comprehensive Agreement on Investments from an ESG POV

Posted at 14:41 by Eileen Li

The EU and China on December 30, 2020 made a consensus for the Comprehensive Agreement on Investments (CAI) between China and the EU. Following seven years of back and forth, this would replace 26 current agreements between 27 separate EU countries and China. Thus, such...

15 Jan SSE and SZSE ESG Policy Benchmarked against other APAC Stock Exchanges

Posted at 17:29 by Eileen Li

In evaluating local ESG practices with other counties in the APAC region, this report will offer a high-level view of how the SSE and SZSE compares with other exchanges in ESG reporting requirements using data from the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative (UN SSE). The UN...

17 Dec Alibaba, Tencent, Hive Box Fined for Monopolistic Practices

Posted at 16:29 by Eileen Li

Antitrust regulator, the State Administration for Market Regulations (SAMR), fined Alibaba [BABA:US] Investments, Shenzhen Hive Box Technology, and China Literature [0772:HK], a subsidiary under Tencent [0700:HK], half a million RMB for not gaining certain acquisition or buyout approvals, thus violating anti-monopoly laws, according to Sina...

02 Dec CSRC Signals Corporate Governance Requirements to Come

Posted at 14:23 by Eileen Li

A CSRC deputy director, Sun Nianrui, spoke at the China Southern Finance International Forum, and emphasized that the regulatory body plans to roll our corporate governance disclosure requirements for listed companies, according to Sina on November 28. The new system would require such companies to...

29 Oct China’s Pledge for Carbon Neutrality [Part 2]: Effects on Investors

Posted at 07:03 by Eileen Li

ESG has increasingly been on many investor’s radars, with more funds and index providers offering ESG options in their array of services. Blackrock took an assertive position earlier this year, alerting financial institutions around the globe of the standard it was planning to use, and...

23 Oct China’s Pledge for Carbon Neutrality [Part 1]: Effects on Policy and Corporates

Posted at 08:37 by Eileen Li