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◆ French agency brings social bond with a new focus ◆ Momentous bookbuilding leads to large tightening ◆ Zero NIP achieved thanks to label, yield
◆ Both issuers choose €500m no-grows ◆ M&G makes bond debut in green format ◆ Sage keeps attrition at bay with sticky book
◆ 'New SSA on the block' returns after six months ◆ Two more green bonds added to euro curve ◆ Pricing flat to fair value, 'consistent' spread to Dutch govvie achieved
◆ Finnish agency records largest green demand ◆ Deal came 10 years after issuer's ESG debut ◆ 'Right level' versus Finland and EIB
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Commodities company Trafigura’s Singapore arm is making its annual return to the Asian loan market, this time opting for a sustainability-linked facility. -
Armando Tamez, CEO of Mexican car parts maker Nemak, told GlobalCapital that the company sees “great potential” in sustainability-linked bonds, adding that it would be “natural” for Nemak to continue to consider issuing SLBs in the future.
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Activity in the recruitment market for sustainable capital markets experts has ticked up this year, as banks looking to staff up in this area see a small but growing talent pool to tap. A recent hire by Santander in London is a good example.
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In the past two years, environmental, social and governance matters, especially climate change, have gone from a fringe issue in capital markets to — almost — the main issue. Banks, investors, companies and governments have shouldered the responsibility of helping move the economy to net zero emissions in 30 years. That duty has joined the fiduciary obligation to make money for customers and shareholders that have been the markets’ main motivation in the past.
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With a host of landmark transactions that include the world’s first sustainability-linked loan and the world’s first green digital Schuldschein, Verbund stands out as a pioneering issuer of ESG debt. Most recently, it broke significant new ground by combining normally separate green use of bond proceeds with a sustainability-linked coupon.
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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.
