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Michael Roberts

CEO of HSBC Bank plc and CEO of Corporate and Institutional Banking, Hsbc

Search every verified Michael Roberts interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In 2020, Roberts said he believed the financial system was undergoing a "fundamentally changing" shift toward incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) attributes, noting that it had been "slow to get going" but that the financial community was "waking up." He stated that having the financial system move in that direction would be "hugely beneficial." Roberts also argued that regulators would eventually require banks to stress-test for climate change, which he said was a "very difficult task." He predicted that banks would be forced to reserve capital against companies deemed unlikely to survive the transition, driving up costs and reducing appetite for risk. Speaking at the same event, Roberts said green finance had started earlier in Europe and that U.S. banks, regulators, and capital markets were "behind" but that this was "starting to change." He described 2020 as the "decisive decade for climate" and said that if change was not made, children would "pay the cost." He characterized his presentation as focusing on the importance of establishing a business case for sustainability and called on companies to be "providers of good."

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