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SRI

Sovereigns set sail for ESG

Although the biggest issuers of all — the US, Japan and China — remain outside the market for now, sovereign ESG debt has gained real momentum in the past 18 months, as a growing number of developed and emerging market issuers have endorsed green, social and sustainable bonds as part of their financing options. As a result, investors are seizing new opportunities to engage on national pandemic recovery and net zero strategies and targets.

GlobalCapital, July 09, 2021
SRI

Fixing the tragedy of the horizons

Central banks have become integral to the fight against climate change in financial markets. Participants now expect them to wield their immense influence through many avenues of their work — economic analysis, metrics, supervision, investment and even monetary policy.

Jon Hay, July 09, 2021
SRI

Social dimension brings greater depth to ESG

While the initial focus of sustainable finance efforts was largely on environmental action, social factors have grown increasingly prominent in recent years — underscored by the establishment of the Social Bond Principles in 2017. Subsequently, Covid and racial tensions in the US have each highlighted social disparities that are leading issuers and investors to treat diversity and inclusion as key parameters too.

GlobalCapital, July 09, 2021
SRI

Sustainable finance builds unstoppable momentum

With sovereign ESG bonds passing a clear inflection point, sustainability-linked bonds seeing notable growth and acceptance, and social bonds catapulted forward by a key borrower — the European Union (EU) — that is also poised to boost the green bonds market with an unprecedented €250bn programme, sustainable debt capital markets are reaching a new peak of activity across the capital structure from every issuer and credit type. So what’s driving the current boom and what will follow it?

GlobalCapital, July 09, 2021
Private debt

Essentra closes private placement at $250m

Essentra, the UK speciality fibres and plastics maker, has closed a US private placement deal at $250m.

Silas Brown, July 09, 2021
Investment Grade Loans

Lenders pile into Gunvor facility

Gunvor, the Swiss energy trading company, has signed an $872.5m guarantee facility. Lenders' demand for assets is so big that the deal was oversubscribed by 45%.

Mike Turner, July 09, 2021
Investment Grade Loans

Loomis secures €265m revolver

Loomis, the Swedish cash handling company, has signed a €265m-equivalent credit facility, with the borrower maintaining the same level of net bank facility debt.

Mike Turner, July 09, 2021
Equity IPOs

Yahsat demand stratospheric as it closes IPO books

Banks wrapped up the $730m-equivalent IPO of Abu Dhabi satellite company Yahsat on Thursday with high levels of demand, particularly from local investors.

Sam Kerr, July 09, 2021
SSA

KfW ready for a choppy second half

KfW has had a strong start to 2021, raising over €50bn in the first six months of the year — around two thirds of its target. The agency will face new challenges in the latter half of the year, particularly in the form of the European Union’s colossal Next Generation funding programme. But treasurer Tim Armbruster, and head of capital markets Petra Wehlert are confident they can navigate the new landscape.

Lewis McLellan, July 09, 2021
Supras and agencies

Funding scorecard: Nordic agencies

This week's scorecard looks at the progress Nordic agencies have made in their funding programmes in early July.

Burhan Khadbai, July 09, 2021
Regulatory Capital

Moody’s updates LGF framework, harmonises AT1 treatment

Moody’s has changed the way it looks at loss-given-failure in banks under resolution regimes, adopting a less conservative approach to non-preferred senior bonds. The rating agency has also done away with its more favourable treatment of high trigger additional tier ones (AT1), putting them on a par with low trigger instruments.

Tyler Davies, July 09, 2021
Regulatory Capital

‘Too early’ to judge capital buffer system, says Basel

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has completed a report looking at lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic, but it has stopped short of recommending any changes to the regulatory capital framework.

Tyler Davies, July 09, 2021

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