Laurent Bassi
Head of Sustainable Finance France - ING
Laurent Bassi is the Head of Sustainable Finance for ING Bank France since 2022. He is an experienced international banker with more than 25 years of experience in investment and corporate banking and corporate/business development between Brussels, London and Paris across products and sectors. Prior to its current role, Laurent Bassi was heading the Capital & Structuring Advisory team in France since 2013. From 1999 to 2013, Laurent Bassi was a a TMT investment banker for RBS and ING Barings based in London. Laurent Bassi started his career in 1997 with Orange and Orange Belgium (then Mobistar) based in Brussels where he worked on Corporate and Business development including the IPO of Mobistar.
All Sessions by Laurent Bassi
INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE
Achieving sustainable investment returns during uncertain market conditions
- Understanding the impact of external factors like interest rates, supply cain disruptions, and political shifts on returns
- Assessing the difficulty in identifying winning sustainable companies amid market turbulence
- Discussing strategies to balance financial performance with sustainability goals
- Highlighting the need for more targeted and nuanced investment approaches
- Leveraging sustainability analysis to mitigate ESG risks while identifying long-term opportunities
- Reframing sustainability as a core driver of long-term value, not just a compliance exercise
- Addressing the challenges of standardizing ESG assessment
- Exploring the subjective nature “S” and “G” and the lack of standardized measurement methods
- Linking S and G to credit, market and liquidity risk with a lack of historical evidence