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Race for ESG talent intensifies in 2022
Most acute skills shortages in risk management, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and baseline technical knowledge across all business functions
Bayani S. Cruz 24 Jan 2022

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Satoru Yamadera
Satoru Yamadera
advisor, economic research and regional cooperation department
Asian Development Bank
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Azure Power
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Kexim taps euro bond market with a green tranche
One of South Korea’s policy banks, Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim), on May 17 priced a dual-tranche euro bond offering totalling €1.5 billion (US$1.58 billion) in the largest-ever senior unsecured public euro bond issuance out of Korea. The deal comprises a two-year green floating rate note and a 3.5-year fixed rate note.
Green Finance / ESG Investing / Treasury & Capital Markets
Industrial Bank aligns green bond with China-EU taxonomy
Industrial Bank (Hong Kong) on May 11 priced a US$650 million green bond offering, with the use of proceeds intended to be aligned with the Common Ground Taxonomy (CGT).
Green Finance / ESG Investing / Treasury & Capital Markets
UOB, Korea Housing Finance Corporation team up on ESG financing
Singaporean lender United Overseas Bank (UOB) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Korea Housing Finance Corporation (KHFC) to collaborate on investment banking, environmental, social and governance (ESG) financing and treasury services. The Korean state-owned financial company aims to expand its footprint in Southeast Asia.
Green Finance / Treasury & Capital Markets
Citi, Home Credit roll out social financing facility in the Philippines
Citi and consumer finance provider Home Credit have launched a joint lending facility aimed at promoting greater financial inclusion in the Philippines. The first tranche of the transaction, amounting to 420 million pesos (US$8 million), will support mobile device purchases, about half of which will go to women to allow them to buy basic digital devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Green Finance / Treasury & Capital Markets
TMBThanachart to issue first blue bond with IFC commitment
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) on May 11 announced its commitment to help increase access to financing for climate-smart and blue-economy projects in Thailand with an investment in a blue bond to be issued by TMBThanachart Bank (ttb) – the first commercial bank in Thailand to do so.

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