The room was cramped, the microphone unsteady and HSBC Holdings Plc’s Noel Quinn was the only major bank CEO there.

Wednesday was Finance Day at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, when the United Nations climate talks shifted from discussing carbon dioxide in the air and ravaged communities and ecosytems on the ground to the dollars in bank accounts and investment portfolios that can be put to work to fund the transition to clean energy.

The contrast to the same event just a year ago in Glasgow couldn’t have been greater. Unlike 2021, Quinn didn’t have the company of fellow ...

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