Vienne Lee takes the Finance Mandarin ESG book to the HKEX Hall

We are delighted to support World Investor Week – the International Organization of Securities Commissions’ annual global campaign to raise awareness of the importance of investor education.

This year’s theme is investor resilience and sustainable finance, and the Finance Mandarin team is attending the investor education and financial literacy event.

HKEX is partnering with the Investor and Financial Education Council (IFEC), the CFA Institute, and the CFA Society Hong Kong to host our annual Strike the Gong for Financial Literacy event on Wednesday, 4 October 2023.

HKEX Strike the Gong financial literacy

Market Open Ceremony – Strike the Gong for Financial Literacy

👍 Vanessa Lau
Group Chief Financial Officer, HKEX

Keynote Speech

👍Tim Lui
Chairman, Securities and Futures Commission

Panel Discussion: Understand the Financial and ESG Benefits of Sustainable Investing

👍 Priscilla Luk
Managing Director, Head of Global Research & Design, APAC, S&P Dow Jones Indices

👍 Keith Ng
Managing Director – Finance, Link Asset Management Limited

👍Frank Tsui
Managing Director, Head of ESG Investment, Value Partners Group

👍 Wisely Ngai, CFA, CAIA (Moderator)
Vice-Chair, Media Committee, CFA Society Hong Kong

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The First ESG Sustainable Finance Mandarin Book

🌍🌱 Introducing the Finance Mandarin 漢通金融學院 ESG Book - The First ESG Sustainable Finance Mandarin Book! 📘📚

🔹 Mandarin, Pinyin, and English translations
🔹 8 case studies focusing on the Principals and Essence of ESG
🔹 China Carbon Goals and GBA Green initiatives covered
🔹 Real Estate, Energy, Green Bond, Syndication Loans, Infrastructure finance
🔹 Hong Kong, Greater Bay Area, China, and Asia focus
🔹 Intermediate to advanced Mandarin Level
🔹 Video teachings on ESG cases
🔹 Online access to 8 case studies
🔹 Audio, video, ESG keywords flashcards, voice input
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🔹 Bringing ESG education to schools in Hong Kong, GBA, Singapore
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Native Mandarin Investment bankers come to Finance Mandarin 100-hour Real Estate Finance, Why?

Finance Mandarin Real Estate 100 hours 1-1

宋伟,中国上海出生的中国人,一位能力优秀的投资银行分析师,毕业于常青藤名校 MBA。

他目前的工作需要面向中国房地产投融资,所以他想更好地掌握融资谈判沟通,了解更多中国房地产的具体个案。

由于母语是普通话,他的汉语水平比较扎实。

但是对于如何正确阐述金融房地产投资的相关评论, 分析存在困难。

通过60分钟金融语言诊断测试,我们发现他的挑战是不能精准地描述对债券违约的来龙去脉,这不利与与客户深入交流。

同时,与其他投行的学生一样,对于中国国情与宏观经济措施,宋伟需要认识更多,例如习近平总书记倡导的共同富裕三次分配。 

因此,我们根据宋伟的语言程度,工作内容,特别设计了私人化定制课程聚焦在中国房地产金融相关专题进行学习

宋伟的金融房地产证书课程共有100 小时。

立即报名 Finance Mandarin金融房地产课程:

Finance Mandarin: 在岸人民币与离岸人民币—交易和结算CNY vs CNH: Trading and Settlement

Finance Mandarin 汉通金融教研团队于2022年8月11日主持亚洲证券业与金融市场协会(ASIFMA)举办的专业培训课程—中国篇。此为系列培训,以普通话主讲。 

8月探讨的主题是在岸人民币与离岸人民币:交易和结算。

参与演讲的嘉宾均为交易和结算方面的专业人士,拥有多年的丰富的交易经验。 他们分别是澳新银行 (ANZ) 环球金融市场部中国交易主管胡晓雯女士 (Ms. Nicole Hu) ,贝莱德建信理财 (BlackRock CCB Wealth Management)资深交易员童雪敏女士 (Ms. Xuemin Tong) 。

此次培训的课程问题是:2021年,全球贸易结算货币份额中,人民币占多少?在这个问题中,有超过43%的学员选择了3%,另有超过50%的学员选择了0.5%-2%和2%-3%。

第一部分 由胡晓雯女士讲解人民币可交割及不可交割的远期产品——交易和结算;

第二部分 由童雪敏女士来讨论离岸人民币市场的发展 。

在一个小时的课程中,Finance Mandarin的教研团队深入理解了CNY和CNH的交易现状及交易流程,两位讲师详细的讲解了在交易过程中可能面对的问题:

胡晓雯女士主要关注人民币可交割外汇远期(DF)和人民币无本金交割外汇远期(NDF)。胡女士从三个方面对两种交易进行了讲解,一是产品介绍;而是交易模式和结算方式;三是外汇远期定价。

人民币可交割外汇远期产品主要的交易市场是在中国境内的场外市场,市场参与者主要为具备资格并获得金融监管机构批准的金融机构、有债券投资背景的境外机构和有贸易实际需要的企业客户。产品主要包括:即期产品、掉期产品和远期产品。其中远期产品中的撮合交易较为具有中国特色。结算方面,中国市场以上清所为中央对手方。另外需要注意的是美金利率、人民币利率以及其他因素对利率的影响。

人民币无本金交割远期外汇交易方面,主要的交易市场为离岸场外市场,参与者为境外金融机构和境外企业客户。因此交易的时间会跟随海外的外汇市场交易时段。结算时企业客户间进行双边结算,银行间通过香港交易所和伦敦交易所进行结算。

童学敏女士介绍了离岸人民币市场的发展。从交易的角度讲,童女士认为,离岸人民币市场是处于一个增长的状态。2020年下半年以来,人民币进入了升值周期,汇率形成的机制更加市场化,双向浮动弹性增强,CNH的交易更为市场化更为灵活,更可能带动CNY的价格。

截止到2021年12月人民币在国际的主要清算货币比例达到了2.7%,今次元美元、欧元和英镑。绝大多数的场景发生在中国香港,达到了76.84%。同时,人民币国际储备地位上升。离岸人民币继续扩容,衍生品市场加快发展,向更多元化的角度迈进。而人民币跨境基础设置更加完善,中国金融市场进一步融入全球体系,人民币跨境支付系统(CIPS)继续巩固。

在课程中,也有学员根据实时的新闻提出了自己的问题。问题都得到了讲师的详细解答。

Nicolas aguzin, ceo of hkex




  1. 新的Swap Connect对于CNY和CNH市场有什么影响?

  2. 人民币在国际主要清算货币中的占比,2016年到2018年为什么会从2.45下降到1.66?

  3. 很多境外投资机构或个人投资者增持人民币的原因是什么?交易中的人民币会重新流入国内市场吗?增持的底层逻辑是什么?

  4. 2022年以来,美联储快节奏加息,吸收全球资本回流美国,加上国内疫情和经济形势严峻,市场对中国外汇收支有一定担心,您认为未来外汇收支趋势如何,如果进入逆差是否会对人民币走势造成影响? 

Finance Mandarin与行业协会紧密合作,为来自香港、新加坡及英美欧外籍高管学员提供优质的教育服务,深入认识不同地区间的金融监管机制的异同。学员来自政府部门与金融监管、各跨国金融企业及资产投资巨头,包括高盛、摩根大通、富达、摩根士丹利、东方汇理、花旗、道富、汇丰等感到收获颇丰。 

参加该系列课程不仅帮助Finance Mandarin的教研团队在金融课程设计、 师资增值,更好地与学生进行沟通和交流,并且能更深入地理解学生在工 作中可能会遇到的问题并给予指引。 

该协会系列课程内容专业、节奏紧凑,同时由中国内地的专业人士为学员进行解答,十分适合希望对中国市场有进一步深入认识的投资人士。推荐行业内的专业人员报名参与。

Testimonial of Michael Chadwick, Head of Education & Training at ASIFMA

The secret to the great success of our business in China

“Vienne Lee and Debbie Chen from Finance Mandarin have contributed their great effort to the success of our ASIFMA China Training Series.

Finance Mandarin’s top trainer Debbie has hosted the ASIFMA webinars that are conducted in Mandarin since April 2022, and she understands and hosts webinars well with her financial knowledge and good expression.

Debbie is well prepared before each webinar, joining each panellist meeting to know more about the contents. She prepares questions in advance in case the participants cannot make questions on their own. Debbie also conducts the Q&A sessions, leads the flow of the webinars, and she assigns questions to panelists according to best suitability and relevancy.

We appreciate Finance Mandarin's efforts during the past 5 months, and we are looking forward to cooperating with Finance Mandarin again in the future.”

Testimonial of Senan Yuen, Head of Investment, China at Fidelity

I am very happy with my progress over the past year. Thanks to Vienne Lee and the Finance Mandarin team of great teachers. Debbie Chen is very pragmatic and excellent in applying the 80/20 rule to organise my thoughts and accomplish focused learning tasks within a limited time so that I can achieve solid results and tangible outputs. Wang Laoshi is good at accurate pronunciation drills and culture sharing.

Finance Mandarin: 环境、社会和管治(ESG)与可持续金融:Environment, Governance and Sustainable Finance Webinar

Finance Mandarin 汉通金融教研团队于2022年7月12日主持亚洲证券业与金融市场协会(ASIFMA)举办的专业培训课程—中国篇。此为系列培训,以普通话主讲。 

7月探讨的主题是环境、社会和管治(ESG)与可持续金融。 

参与演讲的嘉宾均为金融行业及绿色金融行业中优秀的领导者, 他们分别是沪玥商务咨询(上海)有限公司ESG合规顾问-刘禹先生 (Mr. Ivan Liu) ,施罗德 (Schroders) 亚太环境、社会及企业管治 (ESG)专家, 黄丹祺女士(Ms. Dan Chi Wong) 及瑞银 (UBS) 亚太区ESG/可持续发展研究主管, 胡炳熙先生(Mr. Ronald Wu) 。

此次培训的课程问题是:我的机构对ESG/可持续金融/可持续发展的重视程度是怎么样的。通过这样的问题来了解ESG在中国内地市场的发展情况。在这个问题中,有超过50%的学员选择了重视程度高(在过去1年成为优先事项或在过去的2-3年里成为一个优先事项)。

第一部分 由刘禹先生介绍“ESG的定义、历史和国际背景及当前演变”;

第二部分 由黄丹祺女士来讨论“买方角度谈ESG ”。

第三部分由胡炳熙先生介绍“银行角度谈可持续金融与碳市场”

在一个小时的课程中,Finance Mandarin的教研团队深入理解了ESG的发展过程及现状,确定ESG在金融行业中的重要性:

刘禹先生详细解释了什么是ESG,即用环境、社会和管治三个非金融标准来衡量一个投资机遇或一个公司的可持续发展性。环境方面包括气候变化、碳排放、水资源短缺等等;社会层面包括客户满意度、数据保护及保密、性别与多元化等;管治方面包括董事会构成及结构、审核委员会的结构等等。现阶段,世界各个金融交易中心都已经相继推出对上市公司关于ESG以及气候变化相关的披露要求。

黄丹祺女士主要介绍了做好ESG的各种方法,这些方法不是互斥的并且具有抵御偏好。根据研究将ESG整合进投资过程这一方法从2019年的64%的选择增长到67%,但负向筛选从53%下跌至43%。而从2020年开始,投资者也开始考虑影响力投资的方法。从地域角度观察,亚太地区认为最重要的部分是公司管理,达到了61%。

胡炳熙先生从银行角度讨论了可持续金融与碳市场,中国的3060计划,代表2030年会实现碳达峰,而到了2060年中国将实现碳中和。同时,胡炳熙先生也讨论了现阶段环境和气候压力测试和风险评估、全球和中国的碳排放交易以及全球和中国绿色金融现状与展望。

在课程中,也有学员根据实时的新闻提出了自己的疑惑“德国取消了在2035年实现碳达峰的计划,这样的消息对于ESG或绿色金融的发展会否产生什么影响”,该问题也得到了几位导师的充分解答。

Finance Mandarin与行业协会紧密合作,为来自香港、新加坡及英美欧外籍高管学员提供优质的教育服务,深入认识不同地区间的金融监管机制的异同。学员来自政府部门与金融监管、各跨国金融企业及资产投资巨头,包括高盛、摩根大通、富达、摩根士丹利、东方汇理、花旗、道富、汇丰等感到收获颇丰。 

参加该系列课程不仅帮助Finance Mandarin的教研团队在金融课程设计、 师资增值,更好地与学生进行沟通和交流,并且能更深入地理解学生在工 作中可能会遇到的问题并给予指引。 

该协会系列课程内容专业、节奏紧凑,同时由中国内地的专业人士为学员进行解答,十分适合希望对中国市场有进一步深入认识的投资人士。推荐行业内的专业人员报名参与。

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Mark Machin, Toronto-based president of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, says his aim in learning Mandarin is to be able to have good conversations with people and to be able to read relevant Chinese language articles.

"The benefits [of learning Mandarin] are a better understanding of the news and context from Greater China,” he says.

Machin started learning Mandarin in 2012 and maintains a working relationship with Finance Mandarin to improve his Mandarin proficiency. Before taking on his current role in Toronto, the pension’s helmsman was most recently CPPIB’s Hong Kong-based senior managing director and head of international.

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Vienne Lee was authorized to be the English-Mandarin Simultaneous Interpreter for Yu Hua and Kevin Drew at CNN, 2008. Vienne was excited to share the Chinese culture by redefining the values and meaning of the book “To Live” ; 《活着 huó zhe》, by 余华 Yúhuá。

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