Elsa PAU is the founder and Group CEO of BlueOnion, an ESG analytic platform that exposes greenwashing behavior and promotes responsible investing by examining the stewardship practices of asset managers, insurers, pension providers, public and private companies.
PAU is a finance industry veteran focusing on sustainable, responsible, and impact investing. She advocates for investor protection and drives compelling propositions that benefit real change for the finance community. Her mission for BlueOnion is to steer financial services providers toward ethical practices to address climate change and social injustice, helping investors achieve optimal returns with the highest moral responsibilities.
Before creating BlueOnion, she was the Owner-operator of Benchmark, a 25-year-old publication, and a series of Wealth and Asset Management Awards Programs, Forums, and Quality Studies operated under the Benchmark brand.
PAU has a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Florida International University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Florida.
She currently serves as an investment governor of a family office in Asia and a Committee member of the Hong Kong Council of Social Services Development Fund. AsiaWeek once named her one of Asia’s Most Influential Women.
Roundtable Room 3, Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 4
Invite-Only
Both digital trade and digital finance are frequently cited as key to solving the trade finance gap and more generally the financial inclusion gap. Although there are examples of instances where fintechs have helped to expand financial inclusion, the trade finance gap and the problems of financial inclusion continue to grow. The bulk of finance, technology and digital trade innovation– particularly in the past year where focus has been on the use of AI– have focused on making current processes faster and more efficient, without making a real dent on inclusion.
This roundtable seeks to recentre the inclusion discussion on the collaboration that digital trade and digital finance advocates must undertake to create real pathways – not just rhetorical ones – towards financial inclusion. Among the key discussion items will be:
- Creation and sharing of data from trade processes into finance
- Tokenization of real world and financial assets to solve deep tier/upstream access
- Partnership with Multilateral Development Banks and policymakers to drive private sector action
- The role of CBDCs and payments
Working with the audience, the roundtable seeks to outline a number of actions that can be taken collaboratively towards closing the inclusion gap and making real progress, bearing in mind the need to strike a better balance between the need for commercial viability of innovation and the need to solve inclusion issues and secure future prosperity.
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