Posted on: Thu Nov 17 2022

TOPIC
Structuring Sustainable Financial Products

DATE AND TIME
Thursday 17 November 2022, 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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ABSTRACT
The sustainable finance markets have expanded rapidly in the past 10 years, from a fringe “movement” to sizeable markets providing significant financing and investing opportunities. We provide a definition and overview of the sustainable finance markets, and seek to understand the process by which traditional financial products and instruments can be financially engineered to become sustainable finance products, through two main avenues: the use of proceeds, and performance-based pricing. We provide some recent examples of innovative structures and conclude by showing that the sustainable finance market will continue to develop once solid foundations have been set.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Prof. Veronique Lafon-Vinais is a seasoned financial market professional with over 20 years of banking and capital markets experience. She has worked in all the major financial markets and has extensive experience in all the major debt markets. She is now dedicating herself full time to education and teaching as Associate Professor of Business Education, Department of Finance, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where she teaches in the MBA/MSc programs as well as in the Undergraduate Programs, and professional training and consulting for the finance industry. She is the Executive Director, Career Development & Corporate Outreach for the School of Business and Management at HKUST, Associate Director for the UG programs, Co-Director of the BSc in Sustainable and Green Finance, Associate Director of the tri-degree World Bachelor in Business Program, and Project Director for the HKUST-NYU Stern MSc in Global Finance.

ABOUT THE WEBINAR SERIES
This is part 2 of a 5-part webinar series featuring leading academic and industry experts in sustainability, green finance, artificial intelligence, information systems, big data analytics, machine learning, and large-scale data processing. Students interested in the CBSA-Wisers Analytics Challenge @HKUST 2022/23 are highly encouraged to attend the webinars.