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About us
We help corporates advance their sustainability strategy and objectives through embedding ESG into their financing and treasury agenda.
We offer our corporate customers a broad range of sustainable finance and advisory services and products. Together, these can help develop a sustainable treasury function – one that supports the ESG objectives of the company by using ESG treasury tools across multiple dimensions, such as: financing, liquidity, ratings, financial risk management, investor relations and supply chain management.
In doing so, we can support our customers in optimising their sustainability decisions to match the requirements of multiple key stakeholders in sustainable finance.
Sustainability labelled debt
All forms of sustainability labelled debt such as green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked debt, including drafting associated frameworks and obtaining Second Party Opinions.
Sustainability labelled loans
All forms of sustainability labelled lending products, including green loans and sustainability-linked loans, whether syndicated or bilateral.
Green and ESG-linked commercial paper
Short-term financing instruments with funds earmarked for green assets/projects or linked to certain key performance indicators (“KPIs”).
Green supply chain finance
Supply chain financing linked to suppliers’ ESG performance.
ESG deposits
A form of deposit that allows you to place a business' surplus liquidity into a time deposit that factors in ESG criteria.
Non deal roadshow and investor engagement
We facilitate engagement with current and potential investors with specific focus on strategic ESG and sustainable finance topics.
ESG derivatives
We develop derivative contracts (e.g. FX forwards, interest rates swaps) where the contracts’ cash flows are linked to the counterparties’ performance on specific ESG targets.
ESG rating support
Support your engagement with and review of your independent ESG ratings (and ESG drivers of credit ratings) including obtaining, managing and improving identifying these ratings.
Investor strategies
Assessing the ESG commitments and priorities of your investors.
ESG reporting & disclosure
Advice on data requirements and on optimising ESG reporting disclosures.
Guidance on regulatory and other market developments
Bespoke advisory solutions to help you navigate national and international market and regulatory developments.
Johnson Matthey
We are really proud to have supported Johnson Matthey on such a successful transaction and also in aligning their funding to one of their key sustainability KPIs, adopting the concept of ‘sustainability-linked’ to Private Placements.
Wood
We are delighted to have been able to help Wood in aligning their FX hedging programme with two key ESG KPIs, adopting the concept of ‘sustainability-linked’ to FX.
Ørsted
We are thrilled to have been able to support our customer, Ørsted, again; this time with their dual tranche Green Bond, which attracted high quality ESG investors, underlining their strong ESG credentials, green ‘use of proceeds’ format and rarity value.
TenneT
We are delighted to have been able to support TenneT with their Green Euro benchmark, achieving another record deal as investors continue to have confidence in the quality and resilience of TenneT’s sustainability and credit story.
Sustainable finance
Dr. Arthur Krebbers
Head of Corporate Climate and ESG Capital Markets