ESG Tag

Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway [601816:CH] published its first ESG report for FY20 on November 15, as reported by XinhuaNet on the same day. It is the first time for the company to disclose its ESG policies and performances, strictly following the nationally-recognized standards and the...

ESG investing is a new initiative with fast-growing awareness among Chinese companies. It impacts the entire investment value chain including asset owners, asset managers, as well as listed companies and their stakeholders. This initiative is yet to become a mainstream phenomenon in the Chinese...

Four financial firms including UBS [UBS:US], Singapore’s DBS [DBS:SP], Denmark’s Danske Bank [DANSKE:DC], and Amsterdam-based ABN AMRO Bank [ABN:NA] issued a joint press release on June 30 with Harvard Business School’s Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) and the Impact Institute, announcing that they would ally to...

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong issued a circular on June 29 regarding enhanced disclosures for ESG-related funds, according to an official announcement by the SFC later that day. The circular replaced a previous version released in 2019 to management companies of...

9th June 2021, SINGAPORE & SANTA MONICA, U.S. – Seneca ESG, a software provider specializing in building solutions for both investment management firms and corporates, has announced a partnership today with OWL analytics to deliver workflow automation tools incorporating OWL’s Consensus Scores and analytics to...

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) Board of Directors approved a revised Environmental and Social Framework (ESF), reasserting its commitments to environmental and social standards on May 21, as reported by People’s Daily on May 27. The revisions mainly include further strengthening commitment to combating climate...

Arabesque S-Ray and Seneca ESG will collaborate to integrate Arabesque S-Ray’s climate-focused Temperature Score and Emissions data into Seneca ESG’s ZENO software platform. The integration will enable investment firm users of ZENO to gain immediate access to underlying and abstracted climate data on thousands of companies...

Chinese financial services provider Ping An Insurance [2318:HK] and state-backed China Economic Information Service (CEIS) have jointly launched a proprietary ESG ratings system specially designed for the Chinese market, namely, the Xinhua CN-ESG System, as reported by Yicai on December 5. The rating system covers...

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...

With the deepening of China’s financial reform, ESG has been gaining the attention of Chinese government authorities, and policymakers and they are gradually releasing rules to promote ESG among financial institutions. Mainland ESG Disclosure Rules for Banks The former CBRC in 2007 issued guidance demanding that major...

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