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'Unlikely' potential Transition Loan Principles will launch in 2024
13 September 2024The expert taskforce brought together by influential trade associations to look into developing ground-breaking Transition Loan Principles (TLP) is unlikely to publish any guidance before next year.
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Ground-breaking 'Transition Loan Principles' expected by November
03 July 2024With formal principles on the horizon, the 'transition loan' market could be on the cusp of a new era - a dramatic step-change that could extend into the bond market. Ahren Lester reports
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External reviews are the 'main sticking point' for sustainable loan deals
30 October 2023Updated guidance on external reviews is being readied, the Loan Market Association's Gemma Lawrence-Pardew tells Ahren Lester
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Green, Social and Sustainability-linked Loan Principles updated
24 February 2023Three trade associations have published the latest updates to their sustainable loan principles, including tightened guidance around annual target setting and reporting for sustainability-linked loans.
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LMA urges vigilance on 'a la carte' sustainability-linked loans
08 July 2022The Loan Market Association (LMA) said that the sustainability-linked loan (SLL) label should be "earnt, not handed over," as the trade association warned against the development of 'sustainability à la carte'.
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People moves 27 May: BlackRock, Just Climate, Candriam, Bridgepoint and more...
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External verification mandatory in updated Sustainability Linked Loan Principles
01 June 2021External verification is now required under the Sustainability Linked Loan Principles (SLLP) following an update, with the voluntary standards published by three industry associations also tightening guidance on sustainability performance targets.
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Social Loan Principles launched by industry associations
13 April 2021Social Loan Principles (SLP) have been published by the trio of industry associations that administer the widely used voluntary principles for green and sustainability-linked loans.
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ESG financing: cheaper than conventional financing or too expensive to ignore?
31 December 2019Greater demand for sustainable investment products could lead to pricing advantage, argues Neil Caddy
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Sustainable loan principles ‘key to unlocking gargantuan financing needs’
02 May 2019Recently-launched Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles (SLLPs) are ‘key to supplying the gargantuan amount of financing’ required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, White & Case has argued.
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