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» Moderator | You Tay Lee
Professor of Finance, Pukyong National University

Hello everyone, this is really a high-tech and I've never done this
before; it's kind of awkward. I'm You Tae Lee, professor of Finance at
Pukyong National University located here at Busan. I'm really honored
and grateful to be a moderator for this very first session of the AFIS. Session I
Sustainability, as you already know, is a very important key word and
so is ESG. So in this session, we will talk about ESG-related practices,
objectives, policies and the regulatory constraints. It's my great pleasure
to welcome honorable keynote speaker Luca Bertalot for this session,
and it's also my honor to introduce a great speaker, Maureen Schuller,
as the first speaker. She will talk about green covered bonds, which is
a very new area in Korea. We have a second speaker Colin Chen, who I would like to address two questions today. As you well know, the
will talk about the Singaporean real estate market and examples of ESG covered bond market in Europe is a very important instrument to
bond issuance. And we have Chae Sun Chung, an expert in social bond finance mortgage loans. But covered bonds are still far less used by banks
at Korea Housing Finance Corporation. Mr. Luca finished his keynote for green financing purposes than senior unsecured bonds. So that is the
speech in less than 30 minutes, so we have a lot of time, but for an early first question I would like to address and my second question is whether
lunch, here is my game plan; For the first 40 minutes, we'll have two the regulatory developments in Europe will actually support the green
presentations by Maureen Schuller and Colin Chen, after which we'll covered bond market going forward.
have some discussions and open the floor to questions.

» Speaker | Maureen Schuller
Head of Covered Bond Strategy and Financials Research, ING

So hello everybody, my name is Maureen Schuller, I'm the Head
of Financials Research of ING in the Netherlands. I would really like
to thank the organization, Korean Housing Finance Corporation, for
inviting me here today and I would also like to compliment them on
their excellent organization of this Asian Fixed Income Summit.

I'm very happy to be here today, and to present to you some thoughts
on where two of the most fascinating worlds come together; the worlds
of covered bonds and the very important theme of sustainability.

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