Financial Crime Compliance

This course ESG513 ESG Investing and Sustainable Finance examines investing and financing from the perspectives of asset managers, banks, and business enterprises. Students will be introduced to the different ways that environmental, social, and corporate governance issues can be incorporated into investment analysis and decision-making processes for asset managers, leading to the construction of an ESG-integrated portfolio. Students will also learn about climate stress testing to quantify the value at risk for a bank’s loan assets and the channels through which climatebased value destruction can occur. cover the major taxonomies that help to classify activities so that funds can be channelled to the right efforts. Students will also study the features of the different types of sustainable financing instruments and the key principles and standards on which they are based, so that they can recommend suitable sustainable financing instruments to business enterprises to catalyse the transition to green by funding enabling activities.