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Financing a Sustainable World: Global Banks Take Center Stage Progress toward a sustainable world would be hamstrung without the backing of global banks and their sponsorship of green, social and sustainable bonds. AllianceBernstein's Fixed Income Responsible Investing team — Tiffanie Wong, CFA, Patrick O'Connell, CFA and Markus Peters — explain the importance of GSS bonds. #greenbonds #sustainableinvesting #esg #fixedincome #esginvesting https://lnkd.in/d6m9_A_b

Financing a Sustainable World: Global Banks Take Center Stage Progress toward a sustainable world would be hamstrung without the backing of global banks and their sponsorship of green, social and sustainable bonds. AllianceBernstein's Fixed Income Responsible Investing team — Tiffanie Wong, CFA, Patrick O'Connell, CFA and Markus Peters — explain the importance of GSS bonds. #greenbonds #sustainableinvesting #esg #fixedincome #esginvesting https://lnkd.in/d6m9_A_b

While investors are often drawn to EM corporate debt for a variety of reasons, including potential diversification benefits and the potential for attractive yields, many perceive the entire asset class as being at odds with ESG investing. However, we believe that view is misguided: https://lnkd.in/eXhMrTsU #EmergingMarkets #Bonds #ESG

When markets begin to stray from fundamentals, #integritymatters, as does #regulation, both of which are issues discussed in Bloomberg's analysis of the recent fall in sustainability-linked loan and debt issuance: "A key factor behind the slide in SLL issuance is the enforcement of a European Union regulation requiring companies to document their ESG claims, according to one of the bankers Bloomberg interviewed, who asked not to be named discussing private deliberations. The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is now forcing companies that do business in the bloc to provide vast amounts of data to back up virtually every sustainability statement they make." It would be interesting to know the pricing trends in the secondary markets and in volume and pricing trends in African markets (sovereign and corporate). Loshni Naidoo Thato Seritili Cecilia Bjerborn Murai Louise Gardiner

🎯 The 'why invest in climate now' is quite clear to all stakeholders – businesses, banks, and governments. 🤔 It's the 'how to invest now' where more efforts are needed. 💡 Which is why our partnership with Standard Chartered, British Airways and UNDO was born. Our CEO & Co-Founder Marta Krupinska and Simon Derrick from Standard Chartered shared the stage today at Money20/20 in Amsterdam to talk about our First-Of-A-Kind (FOAK) financing pilot, the commercial opportunities emerging from the trillion-dollar carbon removals industry, alongside the critical mission to stop climate change. 👉 So what's the answer to the 'how to invest now'? For buyers, it's de-risked purchases from the best suppliers globally, without the need to pay upfront. For banks, it's access to a vehicle that bridges the gap between equity financing and bespoke project financing. CUR8 solves for the missing pieces of the puzzle – by being the arbiter of good science, and bringing together buyers & capital providers under the same platform. The key motivation was to launch a product that is repeatable and solves for the key risks: •⁠ ⁠Performance risk - answering the ‘does it work’ question •⁠ ⁠Credit risk - buyers pay on delivery and startups have upfront capital needs •⁠ ⁠Counterparty risk •⁠ ⁠Reputational risk The $6-16 trillion funding gap to net zero will have to close and this is just the beginning 🚀 Thanks to Ian Horne & Micky Tesfaye for making this happen!

The commitment of globally systemically important banks (GSIBs) to achieve Net Zero emission targets by 2050 underscores the financial sector's pivotal role in addressing climate change. As intermediaries in the economy financial institutions have an influential role to play through strategic capital allocation decisions and close client collaboration to support an orderly transition to a low-carbon world. Our latest piece, written by Avinash Singh, highlights the strategic role financial institutions can play during the transitional phase to not only manage risk but support client innovation and new opportunities in technology, business models, and supply chains that benefit society at large. Dive into the article now: https://lnkd.in/d-yMjg9Y #Sustainability #ClimateChange #Finance #NetZero #Innovation David Milligan Sash P. Graham Seel

Climate Change and Financial Services go hand in hand- with many interesting scenarios arising from the pairing. In this article by Avinash Singh contains four interesting transition finance opportunities available to #financialservices institutions that are ahead of the curve! #sustainability #transitionfinance #ghgaccounting #netzero

In this weeks edition of the Ulysses Partners newsletter I share my views on transition financing strategies and the opportunity it presents for financial institutions that work in close collaboration with their clients to not only manage #climaterisk proactively but to also redirect capital toward innovations that introduce new technologies, business models and value chains that accelerate our progress toward #netzero commitments.

For those thinking about investing, working on ESG, or involved in Board decisions, look where the potential is to reduce emissions through banking with organisations that are not ploughing your companies money into fossil fuel investments. #fossilfuelreduction #ethicalinvestments #climatechange #corporateresponsibility

The global economy is aiming for #netzero emissions – the #finance sector plays a vital role in this effort. Our latest white paper at Normative.io explains how financial firms can lead the transition to #netzero. The report includes insights from experts at CDP, UBS Wealth Management, and Bankers for Net Zero - it's a must-read for the financial industry!