Asia Risk Radio
Asia Risk Radio
Hosted by the Asia Risk editorial team
Blake Evans-Pritchard
Bureau Chief, Asia
Asia Risk
Blake Evans-Pritchard is bureau chief, Asia, for Risk.net based in Hong Kong. Before taking on his current role, he spent three years covering regulatory issues across Asia for Risk.net, including implementation of Basel III and other international standards in regional jurisdictions. Previously, he spent five years in Brussels writing about the European Union’s financial services sector and competition policy and a number of years as Africa editor for a news service covering post-conflict restitution around the world.
Karen Lai
Regulations reporter
Risk.net
Chris Davis
Senior Markets Reporter and Asia Editor
Asia Risk
Episode 2: Challenges of accessing central clearing in Asia
This episode will take a look at the challenges that US investors have in accessing central clearing within the Asia region because of regulatory restrictions imposed by their home regulator.
Blake Evans-Pritchard and Chris Davis will discuss more along with special guest speakers Dawn Stump, Commissioner at US Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner and Tetsuo Otashiro, Head of Clearing Planning Department at Japan Securities Clearing Corporation.
Episode 1: ESG Data and Exposure to Climate Risk
Hong Kong asset managers fear that under rules proposed by the territory’s securities regulator, they will face a next-to-impossible task: disclosing their portfolios’ exposures to climate risk without knowing the climate performance of many companies in those portfolios.
Blake Evans-Pritchard and Karen Lai will discuss more in the first episode along with special guest speaker Tariq Fancy, ex-Chief Investment Officer, Sustainability Investing at BlackRock and Daryl Ho, Executive Director (Banking Policy) at Hong Kong Monetary Authority.