Make a difference
On-Demand
Collaborate with change agents in sustainable finance within banks and fund managers, innovators among ESG tech start-ups, and leaders in technology and consulting, to exchange insights, share best practices, align priorities and advance the next steps inside your organization.
Investment and Asset Management
Designing, building and reporting sustainable finance products and services for early stage investment and institutional investors
This Co-Creation workshop will detail how investment opportunities can transform the greenhouse gas landscape.
The sessions will define what investors require in order to track and securitise with confidence and what asset managers need to build portfolios that institutional investors will select. Most importantly, what will give them confidence in the veracity of data and zero in on reporting in sustainable finance.
It is clear that a data access and report redesign are needed in the investment and asset management space. The workshop will conclude with three solution design sessions for these challenges.
$30 trillion of capital has been pledged to sustainable finance and supporting outcomes aligned to sustainability and impact goals, such as the UN SDGs.
This huge volume of capital is only trickling from behind a dam created by uncertainty from lack of data, taxonomies, schemas, reporting and products, robust enough to satisfy the risk register of financial institutions. The result is a lack of confidence about viable options for investing in sustainable initiatives.
Finextra Research and ResponsibleRisk will be running a thought-provoking series of editorial, research and experiential events to bring banking and technology ecosystems together and to collaborate on enabling this wave of change.
Agenda Day 1: Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Lean Back
An opportunity to hear from thought leaders.
11:00 – 11:15
Co-Creating in Sustainable Finance
Begin with the end in mind: Richard Peers of Responsible Risk will explain the interactive nature of the day and provides a recap of the first workshop on commercial banking to show how the day works and what we want to achieve.
Richard Peers
ResponsibleRisk
11:15 – 11:30
Corre Energy storing renewable energy at scale
Case study: New firms like Corre Energy need patient long-term capital to be able to build out their platform. In this session, they will describe what investment they required, how they accessed it and what data and reporting they can offer.
Keith McGrane
Corre
11:30 – 11:45
Early stage investor: EBRD - The issues and opportunities
In this session, the ERBD will explain what impact, early stage VC or development banks need to help them invest, track and securitise with confidence in early stage projects and asset classes.
Maya Hennerkes
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
11:45 – 12:00
Zeroing in on Data and Reporting
Refinitiv will make a state of the market problem statement that points to a balanced view on proprietary, private and public data and the needs of the stakeholders.
Elena Philipova
Refinitiv
Lean In
An opportunity to engage in depth with the keynote speakers.
12:00 - 12:40
Panel debate with the opening speakers, learn from their experiences
Moderator: Richard Peers
ResponsibleRisk
Maya Hennerkes
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Keith McGrane
Corre
Elena Philipova
Refinitiv
Agenda Day 2: Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Learn by doing
Workshops have limited spaces, you will have the oppertunity to select your workshop upon registration.
09:00 – 10:45
Session 1 – Investing in Green Energy Storage and Securitising Green Investments
In this session, experts will explain how best to design new finance for new infrastructure and new models to lower costs and the reduce risk of investing in this asset class, in alignment with project finance and impact investing.
Session lead: Richard Conway
Elastacloud
Maya Hennerkes
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Keith McGrane
Corre
Adrian Sargent
ESG Treasury
11:00 - 12:45
Session 2 – Impact Investing
In this session, experts working in Asset Management; Fund; Portfolio management will discuss the challenges of building an Impact Investment portfolio that evidences the impact, delivers suitable returns and can be created and managed with required ROI. Overcoming challenges and identifying opportunities to create sound portfolios that deliver returns for all stakeholders.
Session lead: Fred Warren
Wonder14
Nicole Anderson
Redsand Ventures
Justin Kew
Carmignac Risk Managers
Anna Poberezhna
Smart4Tech
14:00 - 15:45
Session 3 – Reporting and Data to Build an ESG Portfolio
In this session, experts working in Data Management will discuss the challenges of building a Passive investing Index drive portfolio for Institutional Investors using ESG and other data. Overcoming challenges and identifying opportunities to create sound portfolios that deliver returns for all stakeholders.
Session lead: Jess Panni
Endjin
Matthew Adams
Endjin
Sadia Ahmed
AB Sustain
Elena Philipova
Refinitiv
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