Page 19 - SC Annual Report 2018 (ENG)

Securities
Commission
Malaysia
ANNUAL
REPORT
2018

Promoting the sustainable finance agenda in 2018 Sc-WOrLD BaNk- IOScO aSIa PacIFIc HUB cONFErENcE 2018: maLaySIa
LEaDS IN aDVOcatING cONVErGENcE OF ISLamIc aND GrEEN FINaNcING

Securities Commission Malaysia
GrEEN FINaNcE 14 & 15 May 2018
FOrUm “The pioneering issuance of green sukuk in
The Conference is the second collaboration between Malaysia demonstrates the substantial potential
of deploying Islamic finance instruments to
17 October the SC and World Bank Group Global Knowledge support the green agenda. This was accomplished
and Research Hub in Malaysia, with a new through the partnership between the World
The forum provided potential co-organiser, International Organization of Securities Bank’s Malaysia Hub, the Malaysian government
fundraisers and financial Commissions (IOSCO) Asia Pacific Hub. and other stakeholders. We intend to build on
intermediaries an update of these accomplishments to foster the use of such
initiatives by the government Themed ‘Harnessing Islamic Finance for a Green instruments to finance sustainable development
agencies in the area of green Future’, the conference gathered 200 industry and build resilience to climate change and natural
financing and funding options practitioners, policymakers and experts in Islamic disasters in our client countries.”
offered by ICM finance and the sustainable investment space to Richard Record , Acting Country Manager for the World
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discuss key policy, regulatory and institutional Bank’s Global Knowledge and Research Hub in Malaysia
elements needed to further increase market
adoption of Islamic finance for climate mitigation
mINIStEr'S DIaLOGUE and adaptation efforts.
WItH cOrPOratE
SUStaINaBILIty
maNaGErS Selected panellists for the programme:

4 December

A dialogue with the Minister
of MESTECC, CMM, Bursa
Malaysia and public listed
companies to collectively aim
towards achieving the UN’s Datuk Zainal Izlan Abayomi A Alawode
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Zainal Abidin
Development Head, Islamic Finance
Deputy Chief Executive World Bank
Securities Commission Malaysia

Sean Kidney Datuk Dr Mohd Mushtaq Kapasi Nezha Hayat
Chief Executive Officer Daud Bakar Chief Representative for President
and Co-founder Asia-Pacific Moroccan Capital
Climate Bonds Initiative Founder and Chairman International Capital Market Authority
Amanie Group
Market Association

5 Richard Record is currently Lead Economist, Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice, World Bank.

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