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CaixaBank to launch innovative 'sustainable supply chain finance' product
13 November 2024Spanish lender CaixaBank is preparing to launch an innovative 'sustainable supply chain finance' (SSCF) product in the "near future" which is focused on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of the suppliers not the buyers.
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'Vital' LMA green loan drafting guidance to support market credibility
11 November 2024The Loan Market Association (LMA) has published drafting guidance for green loan transactions to encourage greater consistency and support a "more active and robust" market in the future.
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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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SLLP consider formalising 'sleeping SLL' guardrails
23 July 2024The Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles (SLLP) are preparing to formalise treatment of so-called 'sleeping SLLs' in its upcoming revision, including formalising "guardrails" to ensure these contested but "useful tools" are credible.
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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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ICMA, LMA release 'sustainability-linked loan bond' guidance
25 June 2024Two debt industry bodies have jointly published guidance for the issuance of bonds dedicated to financing sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) in order to develop a new sustainable finance product and support the credibility of the performance-based lending instrument.
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Sustainability-linked loan model 'may have been ahead of its time'
18 April 2024The model for sustainability-linked loans "might have been ahead of its time" in the leeway it gives borrowers to choose which sustainability-related indicators they will be judged against, an Environmental Finance conference heard.
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Transparency needed to bring more credibility to sustainable loans market
17 April 2024The sustainability-linked loan market is evolving, as it battles to overcome its credibility issues, the Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt EMEA conference heard.
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LMA exploring 'transition loan' label as sustainability-linked debt flounders
28 March 2024The Loan Market Association (LMA) is exploring the creation of a label for loans that finance climate transition-themed projects or activities, as it considers how to drive more investment in 'hard-to-abate' sectors.
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Green loans expected to take 'larger slice of pie' in 2024
06 December 2023Sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) are expected to be the main driver of sustainable loans growth in 2024 despite green loans taking a "larger slice" of the market, the Loan Market Association (LMA) has revealed.