Net Zero

Malaysia’s Joint Committee on Climate Change (JC3) met last month to outline five initiatives to expedite the market’s transition to net zero. FA spoke to experts to assess the regulatory environment that Malaysia is working to cultivate, in support of climate-conscious investment.

Bank of China has tapped the European bond market to finance steel projects in Hebei province, in a first of a kind issuance involving a financial institution.

Impact investing may be growing strongly but so, too, is impact washing. How investors comply with new regs, and turn a profit, is deciding a fast-changing investment landscape.

From Indonesia’s resource-rich, onshore EV supply chain, to Hong Kong’s suite of sophisticated primary market products, experts assess the opportunity on offer to both regions’ capital markets, following formal signature of a strategic partnership between HKEX and IDX last week.