The EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (or "SFDR") became applicable on 10 March 2021.  The SFDR, and imposes obligations incrementally through to mid-2023. The SFDR seeks to integrate sustainability considerations into the financial system, and steer the flow of capital towards sustainable investments.  It seeks to achieve its ambitions through significant additional administrative burdens, principally entity-level and product-level disclosures for funds and their managers.

In this webinar, Ben shared what the SFDR means in APAC, including:

1.  Summarising the key requirements of the SFDR as they are relevant to funds and fund managers located in APAC;

2.  Considering the pinch-points which may be encountered when reconciling SFDR obligations with APAC requirements; and

3.  Analysing what steps you may wish to take, and by when, to comply with applicable SFDR obligations.
 

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Speaker

Ben Hammond

Partner

Ashurst

Ben is a partner in Ashurst's Financial Services Regulatory Group and is also the managing partner of Ashurst's Hong Kong office. Ben leads the firm's non-contentious regulatory practice in Hong Kong and advises a broad range of regulated market participants (banks, brokers, funds, proprietary traders, and family offices) and unregulated clients, in transactional and non-transactional regulatory areas.  Ben is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales as well as Hong Kong and has particular expertise in cross-jurisdictional regulatory advice, including reconciling Asian regulatory regimes with European and UK regulatory requirements.