ICMA-HKMA Webinar: Digital Green Bond Issuance and the Bond Data Taxonomy

ICMA and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) did a webinar on 26th June at 9.30am (BST), 4.30pm (Hong Kong) where we reflected on the ground-breaking multi-currency digital green bond issuance by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China on 7 February 2024, and how the Bond Data Taxonomy was implemented. The issuance marked the first adoption of ICMA’s Bond Data Taxonomy (BDT) by a government issuer and a was a first for a green bond.

After a brief introduction there was a presentation on the key features of the issuance, the benefits for issuers and investors, as well as the opportunities, challenges and lessons learned.

After the presentation, Gabriel Callsen from ICMA and Georgina Lok from the HKMA discussed the implementation of the Bond Data Taxonomy and how this can pave the way for greater automation and interoperability.

There was an opportunity to ask questions after the discussion

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ICMA was pleased to partner with Ashurst for a virtual event on Net Zero and the Asia-Pacific Capital Markets on 20 April 2021.

Keynote presentations were provided by Mr. OMOTE Takashi, Deputy Director-General for Environment, Energy and Innovation at Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; and Dr. MA Jun, Chairman, Green Finance Committee of the China Society of Finance and Banking.

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ICMA-HKMA Webinar: Digital Green Bond Issuance and the Bond Data Taxonomy

ICMA-HKMA Webinar: Digital Green Bond Issuance and the Bond Data Taxonomy