The Mergermarket M&A Forum - Southeast Asia returns on 25 April 2023 to Singapore. The event will bring together over 430 corporate investors, private equity fund managers and M&A advisors for a day of exclusive networking and high-level insights into the M&A landscape in the region.

The 5th Mergermarket M&A Forum - Australia returns this year on 16 March 2023 in Sydney, bringing together leading corporate investors, private equity fund managers and M&A advisors for a day of exclusive networking and high-level insights into the Australian M&A deal landscape.

Valued for its quality in-depth discussions, the high-level Dialogue will gather the region’s leading minds in Islamic and sustainable finance to engage in an intellectual exercise toward finding pragmatic solutions to advance the Islamic sustainable agenda in the region.

As the leading fixed-income debt instrument, green bonds have also paved the way for the appearance of other thematic-labelled bonds. New labels and formats contributing to long-term environmental and social projects have arisen to further expand the labelled bond market, which is a clear signal that issuers and investors are highly committed to a greener, fairer, and more sustainable world.

For financial institutions, measuring and managing market and credit risk is a relatively straightforward process done through established tools, models and methodologies. However, accurately identifying and measuring the complex risks directly associated with climate change (and other important events) is a significantly more challenging task.

Digital payments and financial inclusion accelerated powerfully over the past couple of years, and in 2023 market conditions — like rising inflation, mass layoffs in tech, stagnating venture capital investment, declining GDP growth and the decline of crypto — will pose challenging circumstances for all fintech players.

Resilience, SLB standards, sovereign issuance & transition tipping-point all in the mix for 2023

Entrex Carbon Market (Entrex), a Florida-based blockchain-enabled carbon offsets and futures trading platform, is considering pursuing a Shariah compliant Fatwa for its offerings pursuant to the investor mandate, Stephen H Watkins, CEO of Entrex, told ISFI.

The global steel sector has reached a fork in the road. Before 2030, 71% of existing coal-based blast furnaces (1090 Mt) will reach the end of its lifetime and require major reinvestment. As the next investment cycle won’t happen for another two decades, this means that this decade provides the critical opportunity for steel to transition to a more sustainable sector.

AmInvest is targeting to convert some of its existing funds to SRI-qualified funds by the end of the first quarter of 2024, Goh Wee Peng, CEO of AmFunds Management (AmFunds), told ISFI.