The Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards (The MAIAs) today announced it has secured initial sponsorship from influential financial players, as the body heads towards the inaugural round of award-giving this spring. Conceived to 'Make Money Better', the MAIAs is a new entity focused on raising awareness of the many problems poor financial literacy causes, while also finding the best solutions from all over the world - and shining a light on them via a high-profile awards system judged by leading academics, NGOs, journalists, influencers, and asset managers. Joining the MAIAs crusade as judges for the inaugural 2022 awards are a host of luminaries from the field, including SMU Professor of Finance (Practice) and Director of Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics Dave Fernandez.
Sharing his views on green bonds' growth in the Asia Pacific, SMU Professor of Finance (Practice) Dave Fernandez, who is also the Director of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics and Co-Director of Singapore Green Finance Centre at SMU, noted that end-investors do not discriminate between the greenwashers and genuinely green funds. "More than 90 per cent of the world's largest companies produce corporate social responsibility reports, but third parties review only a minority of these," he said. "There are valid concerns about the reliability of such self-reporting. The bottom line is that we'll likely see regulators step up in this area."
ABFER-ABS Industry Outreach Panel: "The Impact of Fin-tech Revolution, Digitalisation and Digital Currencies on the Financial System"
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