Maple Leaf Foods, Inc. has become the first company in Canada to secure sustainability-linked terms for its credit facilities. The Company signed an amendment to its existing credit facilities to include financing terms that reduce the interest rate on the […]
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Today, MUFG Bank Ltd. (along with the Norinchukin Bank, Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) granted NYK a syndicated sustainability-linked loan, Japan’s first advanced loan that allows for conditions such as the loan’s interest rate to be adjusted according […]
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Voor de financiering van de twee installatieschepen Les Alizés en Voltaire maakt de groep Jan De Nul voor het eerst gebruik van een groene lening. Het consortium van banken bestond uit KBC Bank, BNP Paribas Fortis, ING Luxembourg, Rabobank en […]
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NIBC bank is pleased to announce being the first to successfully issue a collateralized loan obligation fund (CLO) compliant with the best practices of ESG investing. NIBC’s North Westerly VI B.V. of EUR 410 million is placed via MUFG Securities […]
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Increasing issuance of sustainability-linked loans by top investment-grade companies is boosting lenders’ reliance on independent ratings agencies to score and monitor firms’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance as investors call for greater transparency. Sustainable lending is overtaking green loans […]
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ING has closed what may be the first sustainability-improvement capital-call facility for Singapore-based private equity fund Quadria Capital Fund II, with the interest rate pegged to the fund’s sustainability performance. The US$65 million three-year revolving sustainability-tied facility compares with a […]
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Polymetal is pleased to announce that it has agreed a bilateral sustainability-linked credit facility of up to US$ 75 million with Societe Generale. The facility incorporates an adjustment mechanism which links the pricing of the loan to five of Polymetal’s […]
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Vorige week sloot Fagron een overeenkomst voor een duurzaamheidsgerelateerde lening met een consortium van zes banken: ING België, BNP Paribas Fortis, Belfius, Commerzbank, HSBC en KBC. De voorwaarden van die lening zijn deels afhankelijk van hoe de kredietnemer presteert op […]
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ING has introduced the world’s first sustainability improvement derivative (SID), a derivative with a credit spread that is linked to sustainability performance. The SID is being provided to SBM Offshore in connection with its US$1 billion, five-year revolving credit facility […]
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ING, BBVA and Rabobank have jointly coordinated and participated in a $2.1 billion Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) for Chinese commodities trader COFCO International. It’s the first SLL for a Chinese commodities trader and the largest with a commodities trader worldwide. COFCO International […]
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Nokia announced today the signing of a EUR 1,500 million five-year multicurrency revolving credit facility (“RCF”) with two one-year extension options and introduced a sustainability pricing mechanism linking the margin of the RCF to two of Nokia’s key sustainability targets: […]
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ING has set up a green finance framework for ITOCHU Europe PLC, providing the first-ever green loan to a Japanese trading company. ITOCHU Europe is a subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation, one of Japan’s largest trading companies in terms of asset […]
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