ICMA Women’s Network: A conversation with champions of diversity on empowering change and advancing gender equality

Date: 3 Dec 2024
Time: 5 pm - 7:15 pm HKT
Venue: Davis Polk, 10/F, The Hong Kong Club Building, 3A Chater Road, Central, Hong Kong

Overview

Please join the ICMA Women’s Network (IWN) for an inspiring fireside chat with male and female champions of diversity and gender equality. This event will explore the intersectionality of personal life, building resilient and successful careers, and advancing women's representation in leadership roles. Through insights drawn from their own journeys and by reference to their unique challenges and opportunities, our panellists will explore essential topics and key strategies that connect individual and career growth with broader change in the industry. Discussions will cover essential topics like career longevity, work/life balance, navigating transitions, making successful pivots, leveraging transferable skills to future-proof your career and taking calculated risks—all aimed at empowering change to drive both personal success and collective progress toward gender equality in finance.

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17:00		Registration
17:20		Welcome remarks Miranda So, Partner, Co-head of Asia (ex-Japan), Davis Polk Bryan Pascoe, Chief Executive, International Capital Markets Association (ICMA)
17:30		Keynote speech Speaker to be announced
17:45		Panel Discussion Moderator: Desirée Sumilang, Executive Director, Senior Legal Counsel, Global Markets Division, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and ICMA Women's Network APAC Representative Panellists: Miranda So, Partner, Co-head of Asia (ex-Japan), Davis Polk Vincent Ng, General Counsel and Head of Public Affairs, Klook Yvette Marie G. Rodriguez, Managing Director and Head of APAC Corporate Finance Legal, Global Chair of the Legal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council, Deutsche Bank
18:30		Closing remarks Mushtaq Kapasi, Managing Director and Chief Representative for Asia-Pacific, ICMA
18:35		Networking reception
19:15		Event Close

Overview of the latest developments in the sustainable bond markets: an ICMA and BofA Securities training workshop (by invitation only)
Organised by: ICMA and BofA Securities
Time: 08:30 - 16:30 SGT, Tuesday, June 27
Venue: The Westin Singapore

ICMA and BofA Securities will hold a one-day training workshop aimed at regulators, issuers, investors and other market participants from the APAC region on June 27 at the Westin Singapore. The workshop will cover a comprehensive range of topics including: an overview of the Principles, financing themes such as climate transition, blue and biodiversity, overview of the EU/ASEAN taxonomies, an update on external reviews, disclosures and reporting as well as a case study on sustainability-linked bond issuance. Presenters will include representatives from ICMA, IFC, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, BofA Securities, RAM Sustainability and Dentons Hong Kong.

Roundtable on Singapore GFIT Taxonomy (invitation only)
Organised by ICMA
Time: 10:00-11:30 SGT, Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Venue: Singapore

Roundtable on global and Asian transition finance (invitation only)
Organised by ICMA
Time: 15:30-17:00 SGT, Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Venue: Singapore

Dynamics and developments in the international sustainable bond markets – Implications for the MENA region

Capital Club, DIFC, Dubai, 8 December 2021

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