The Vietnam-Singapore Board Forum (VSBF 2024) co-organised by VIETSTAR Consulting and Training JSC and SMU was held in Hanoi on 23 May. The VSBF 2024 focused on the theme "Leading for Tomorrow: Pioneering Green Business Solutions", and explored the upcoming challenges and opportunities arising from economic volatility, climate change, energy transition, green businesses, green technology, and green finance. Commenting on Green Finance issues, SMU Associate Professor of Finance and Co-Director of Singapore Green Finance Centre Hao Liang said, There are increasingly more channels providing loans to businesses today, from banks, investors, and investment funds in Singapore. Therefore, there is a need for a green classification system for these entities to have a basis for specific assessments of each customer and business during the lending appraisal process, and then develop green credit packages tailored to their business characteristics and technology transformation, for example."
