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As connectivity deepens across the Greater Bay Area, customers will have significant cross-boundary financial service needs. To learn how cross-boundary activity will affect retail financial service needs and preferences, Bain & Company, in partnership with Hang Seng Bank, surveyed more than 2,500 customers in the GBA at the end of 2022, before the border reopening was announced. Explore the full findings here. #BainatMoney2020

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Excited to share the latest edition of the Southeast Asia's Green Economy 2024 report, launched by Bain & Company in collaboration with GenZero, Standard Chartered Bank, and Temasek. This year's edition provides a timely progress update on the region's efforts to achieve its net-zero targets. It identifies 13 high-impact, investable decarbonization ideas across key sectors and outlines 5 critical accelerators that can help scale investments in the near term. For those interested in sustainability and decarbonization in Southeast Asia, please take the time to review the findings of our report!

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As connectivity deepens across the Greater Bay Area, customers will have significant cross-boundary financial service needs. To learn how cross-boundary activity will affect retail financial service needs and preferences, Bain & Company, in partnership with Hang Seng Bank, surveyed more than 2,500 customers in the GBA at the end of 2022, before the border reopening was announced. Explore the full findings here. #BainatMoney2020

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What does the future hold for human-machine collaboration, and how should companies prepare for it? Hear what David Harrington, a strategy partner and AI leader at EY Port Jackson Partners and Sooyeon Kim, EY Korea Consulting AI Leader has to say. EY-Parthenon #AI #Augmented

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"Following the adoption of different rules pertaining to sustainability and climate disclosure, public companies and financial institutions are under huge pressure to accelerate their efforts to capture, measure and disclose emissions data.” Our Patrick Yu highlights his five recommendations for navigating the complexities of sustainability and climate disclosure requirements in Hong Kong and the APAC region. Get them here: https://fh.pr/tdxa5 #sustainability #esg #climatedisclosure

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Can our cities overcome climate chaos through innovative financial strategies? Discover groundbreaking insights on how financial re-engineering can be pivotal in combating #climatechange. SMU Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics Research Fellow, Dr Tran Bao Phuong Nguyen, sheds light on key tactics such as performance-based bonds and inter-sector partnerships, demonstrating how financial innovation can strengthen our urban resilience. Discover how finance can drive climate innovation. #SMUCityPerspectives #SMUInsights https://brnw.ch/21wJPbe

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What can help drive progress across ASEAN? Find out in our new Southeast Asia Green Economy report, which highlights key initiatives, identifies investable opportunities, and explores innovative finance mechanisms to unlock the potential for energy transition. The report offers a roadmap for sustainable growth and transformation, emphasising the importance of strategic investments, accelerators, and collaborative efforts. You’ll learn more about: • Unlocking the green potential – explore ASEAN’s path to a greener economy • Bridging the funding gap – uncover strategies and accelerators addressing the US$3tn investment gap • Decarbonisation pathways – discover high-impact initiatives and investable ideas • Collaborative action – learn how collective action and country strategies can scale investment and drive net-zero progress • Specific market insights for Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Explore the insights here: https://lnkd.in/gM7Y3TvJ This comprehensive analysis was produced in partnership with Bain & Company, GenZero, and Temasek. Thank you to our in-house sustainability specialists including Tracy Wong Harris, Justin M., Evonne Lee, Christina Soon, Gladys Goh and Phyllis Goh; and to the 50+ leading industry experts that shared their wisdom for this report. #SustainableFinance #ClimateAction #NetZero

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While business conditions generally improved across Japan's private sector in April, the latest flash PMI data have also outlined rising cost pressures for Japanese private sector firms, partly aggravated by yen weakness. The rising inflation trend, according to PMI prices data which precedes official indications, therefore lends some support to the consideration of another BoJ hike. Latest economics commentary on the flash data here: https://lnkd.in/giJ9qNuj

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In 2023, Southeast Asian private equity faced a tough exit environment. Deal value dropped 60% to $2.8B and exits fell by 70% from 2022. Although #Singapore remained an active market, high interest rates and macroeconomic challenges hindered returns. Despite a 39% drop in overall deal value to $9B, creative strategies are helping navigate the tough market. Firms are turning to secondary deals and operational improvements to seek liquidity. Local stock exchanges are also increasingly becoming an attractive source for future exit potential. Article by Pimfha Chan for DealStreetAsia. Read more at the link below. Follow Origin Capital Singapore now for more curated insights! https://lnkd.in/gWYMGd-v

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SINGAPORE: The Sustainability-Linked Advisory, Grants and Enablers (Sage) Programme aims to help SMEs reduce the time, cost and resources required to set sustainability performance targets and secure financing. Under the Sage Programme, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can select from three options of pre-defined, sector-specific sustainability performance targets to obtain sustainability-linked financing from UOB. They can choose to pursue one – or more – of three targets: - reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; - certification of management systems; or - improvement of environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings. *All targets have been validated by a second-party opinion partner – ERM – to ensure credibility and alignment with globally recognised sustainability-linked loan principles. https://lnkd.in/gKYmSJfE Apurva Kumar Jenny Hadikusuma Yawar Arif Herekar Neha Noronha Ammardito Shafaat Nicholas Edmund Andy Yap Gail Gan Jia Yi Gooi Robin Goh Qing Kai WeiChee Liew Nat Vanitchyangkul Yulia Dobrolyubova

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A new physical risk assessment platform is coming. I'm thrilled to be involved in this project.

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Singapore is well-positioned to be a sustainable finance hub for ASEAN because of its commitment to sustainability and its investment in decarbonization efforts. ASEAN can achieve its sustainability goals by working together and leveraging the strengths of each member country. Singapore's investment in this fund shows its leadership in sustainability within ASEAN. Singapore has what it takes to be the sustainable finance hub of ASEAN via this decarbonisation effort. This is because ASEAN member countries have a comparative advantage in sustainability, and Singapore can extract this advantage to accelerate its sustainability action. Our sustainability ambition (ASEAN) rests in extracting the comparative advantage of each member ASEAN country to accelerate our sustainability action. Our island-state may not have the geographical attributes to host large-scale solar farms nor do we have rivers for massive hydroelectric storage but we have decades of experience in being the financial centre for ASEAN and this can be easily translated into sustainable finance. The key is to integrate our shared knowledge to create new opportunities for all in ASEAN. #SustainableFinance #ASEAN #Decarbonization #BlackRock #Temasek #Singapore #ComparativeAdvantage #CoordinatedCollaboration #Integration

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Get in touch! Corporate Actions & Income - #Singapore. Audit Matters and execution plus follow through to completion of corrective action plan. To find out more, please visit the link below

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Southeast Asia has a window of opportunity that it needs to seize today to leverage the coming transition for competitive and economic growth beyond decarbonization. The 5th edition of the Southeast Asia Green Economy Report, co-authored by Bain & Company, GenZero, Standard Chartered and Temasek, highlights the 13 decarbonization ideas that present an economic prize of up to $150B for SEA and the five accelerators that can expedite the region’s green transition.

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Southeast Asia has a window of opportunity that it needs to seize today to leverage the coming transition for competitive and economic growth beyond decarbonization. The 5th edition of the Southeast Asia Green Economy Report, co-authored by Bain & Company, GenZero, Standard Chartered and Temasek, highlights the 13 decarbonization ideas that present an economic prize of up to $150B for SEA and the five accelerators that can expedite the region’s green transition.

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The #Sustainable #Finance Jobs Transformation Map (JTM) study conducted by KPMG Singapore reveals some fascinating insights: 1. Did you know that #ASEAN's sustainable finance market is expected to reach USD 4-USD 5 trillion in the next decade? 2. That's not all, 56% of jobs (~50,000 people) are expected to have sustainable finance related tasks added to them. 3. Furthermore, most financial services professionals will require #sustainability skills in the next 3 years. 4. The Monetary Authority of Singapore has set aside SGD 35 million in the Financial Sector Development Fund to support #upskilling and #reskilling, and develop specialists in sustainable finance over the next three years. Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/gCPSwSA4 #sustainablefinance #sustainability #upskilling

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