Thursday, 18 May, 2023
3 pm Singapore Time

Investing in Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for Development Banks in the Sustainable Bond Market

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Why attend

In this webcast, we will discuss the challenges and opportunities in the green and sustainable bond market, focusing on the increasing need for private sector funding to fight climate change and reduce environmental degradation.

The Paris Agreement has set the target of a maximum temperature increase of 2 °C, which requires billions of green investments each year in key sectors of the global economy. Public finance will continue to play a key role, but a significant share of the funding will have to come from the private sector.

Green, sustainability, and social bonds have been gaining traction in recent years, and they are now even more important financial instruments for countries in catalyzing funds for green and sustainable recovery programs and projects, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries are focusing more on achieving net-zero emissions to alleviate the climate change crisis.

The world's biggest multilateral development banks have increased their climate-related financing, but the 2021 figure remains a long way short of the estimated finance needed by emerging markets. A report by BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, puts that figure at $1 trillion a year of public and private finance.

Multilateral development banks and international financial institutions have a crucial role to play in attracting much larger sums of private capital. They can provide technical assistance helping develop projects, improve governments’ institutional capacity, and build the local currency bond markets to broaden the set of domestic investors.

The key take-aways

Explore challenges and opportunities in the green and sustainable bond market

Understand Asia's sustainable bond market and its unique structure compared to other regions

How can Development Banks attract more private capital to support inclusive and sustainable economic recovery?

The role that Development Banks play in building the necessary infrastructure to support sustainable investing

The webinar panel

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Domenico Nardelli, Treasurer | ASIAN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT BANK

Nardelli manages AIIB’s Treasury Department. He is responsible for the investment of the Bank’s liquid assets, capital markets operations including payments and back office, and asset and liability management.

Before joining AIIB in September 2019, he was Treasurer of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, a specialized agency of the United Nations based in Rome, Italy. Prior to that, he spent several years in investment banking in London, where he was Managing Director in Global Rates responsible for Public Sector coverage and Euro Medium-Term Note issuance, first at the Bank of America and then at Jefferies, a financial services company.

Nardelli started his career at the Italian Treasury as an officer in the Public Debt Department, where he went on to become the Head of International Funding and Liability Management. During that time, he served as Advisor to the Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. Nardelli has extensive experience in asset and liability management, capital markets, and financial markets policy issues.

He holds a BA in Political Science (cum laude) from the University of Pavia, Italy, and a master’s degree from Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione in Rome, Italy

Nardelli is from Italy.

Shu Tian, Senior Economist | ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Dr. Shu Tian is a Senior Economist at the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department (ERCD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Prior to joining ADB, she was an Associate Professor of Finance at Fudan University in China. Her main working area is financial sector development and sustainable finance. Dr. Tian works in the team that produces ADB’s flagship report Asian Development Outlook. She works to support bond market development in the ASEAN+3 economies under the Asian Bond Markets Initiative. She leads a team that produces Asia Bond Monitor and maintains the AsianBondsOnline (https://asianbondsonline.adb.org/), an online information platform for ASEAN+3 bond markets.

Ashutosh Mishra, Chief Risk Manager | NABARD

Evolved risk management professional - focussed on both strategic & operational dimensions .
In depth, hands-on experience in wholesale & retail credit management,remedial management,product cycle management,operations and enterprise risk management in financial sector across businesses in leading banks & financial institutions in multiple geographies including India ,middle east and also Central Asia.

Have focused exposure to multiple facets of risk management including credit analysis & review ,portfolio risk management,ALCO & liquidity risk management operational risk management including BCP & DR . Been member of ALCO,Investment Committee, Credit Risk Management Committee, BCP Steering Committee, Alternate Investment Committee across organisations and have internalised best practices to have an enterprise level view & understanding . Have substantial board interaction and also been part of management board myself to have insight in to board dynamics . Have also set up risk management framework ,BASEL migration to advanced standards , BCP & DR framework in more than two FIs.

Take pride in people skills , handling employees from diverse background to achieve goals in a time bound manner.

Open to challenges , especially love setting up risk management frameworks and looking forward to leadership/mentoring roles .

Specialties: Credit Risk Management,Remedial Management,Enterprise Wide Risk Management & Strategic Management.

Marolette Van Rooyen, Business Architect, Treasury and capital markets APAC | FINASTRA

Marolette van Rooyen is a Business Architect at Finastra covering the Treasury and Capital Markets area. With over 15 years’ experience in the financial services industry, she has broad and deep knowledge across Treasury, Capital Markets and Payments.

Prior to her current role, she held a number of leadership roles in Global Markets and Interbank Payments at Standard Bank. She holds a BSc Financial Mathematics degree from the University of Johannesburg (RAU).

Krzysztof Rojek, Senior Director, Global Solutions Consulting | FINASTRA

Krzysztof Rojek is a Senior Director of Global Solutions Consulting for Finastra’s Treasury and Capital Markets’ core front-to-back-to-risk solutions. He is responsible for pre-sales and sales strategies, working with banks on their trading innovation, risk management, and digital transformation initiatives. Before joining Finastra in 2016, Krzysztof was the Head of Pre-Sales at FIS, where he worked for over 10 years, and prior to that he spent 8 years as a trader in dealing rooms in Warsaw and London. Krzysztof is based in Singapore and holds a master’s degree in financial engineering from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.

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