GC2025 Insights: From Green Finance to Impact Investing in Asia

In the following episodes, we bring you insights from this year’s AVPN Global Conference (“GC2025”), held September 9-11 in Hong Kong. There will be episodes highlighting thought leadership from prominent speakers. This includes snippets from speeches, and special features of our speakers on Impact Investing Day (September 10).Impact investing is entering a new era - one where Asia is no longer following global trends but actively shaping them.In this episode, Dr. Ma Jun, M.H., Chairman and President of Hong Kong Green Finance Association (HKGFA) and Chairman of the Capacity-building Alliance of Sustainable Investment (CASI), provides a systems perspective of what can shape Asia’s impact investing landscape. Particularly, he draws on his decades of leadership in sustainable finance for application in the impact investing context.He draws from his experiences across the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Deutsche Bank, and later, as Chief Economist of the People's Bank of China (PBC). He contributed through his work developing China’s green finance guidelines, and later assumed international roles in developing G20 transitional finance frameworks.From his sharing, it is clear that a strong market infrastructure is key to the acceleration of sustainable development.Listeners will gain insights into:How sustainable finance in Asia has evolved from early experimentation to a more advanced and structured ecosystem, and how the same can and ought to happen for impact investing.Why clear taxonomies and disclosure standards are essential to avoid impact-washing and enable credible impact investing.How incentives and stronger coordination - from governments, philanthropists, and financial institutions - can crowd in private capital and build impact-investing frameworks.Whether you're an investor, policymaker, corporate leader, or ecosystem builder, this episode offers a practical and structured overview of what it will take to develop Asia’s next-generation impact investing ecosystem.