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The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has appointed Anna Ng as its new regional head of operations for East Asia and the Pacific and head of office for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR).
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank, has appointed a new regional head of operations based in Hong Kong to help accelerate its climate and sustainability efforts in the region. Anna Ng will be responsible for strategy, facilitating and overseeing investment and advisory programmes, as well as fundraising efforts in East Asia and the Pacific, according to a statement on Tuesday. She will also work closely with regional investment and advisory teams to
Anna Ng, as IFC’s regional head for East Asia and the Pacific, will focus on strategy implementation as well as fundraising efforts for the World Bank’s financing arm.
ASIA: Five global banks signed up as cornerstone members of the Alliance for Green Commercial Banks, a global green banking initiative established by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC). The five cornerstone banks are Bank of China (Hong Kong), Citigroup, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC, and Standard Chartered.