JONES DAY TALKS®: European Central Bank’s Climate Center & Investment Plans Focus on Sustainability (Encore Presentation)
JONES DAY TALKS®: European Central Bank’s Climate Center & Investment Plans Focus on Sustainability
Podcast: European Green Finance and Sustainability Proposals – Impact for Asset Managers
In the first of our series “ESG in Fund Finance” articles, we summarise and examine the recent publication “A Guide to the Application of Sustainability-linked Loan Principles in Fund Finance”....more
Our latest Trade & Export Finance webinar, delivered by Maria Capocci (Associate) and Ellis Lawson (Partner), considered the different types of environmental, social and governance (ESG) loans and their current position in...more
In February 2023, the Loan Market Association (LMA), the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association (APLMA) and the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) re-issued the Sustainability-linked Loan (SLL) Principles and the...more
On June 29, 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority, the UK’s financial markets regulator, released a summary of its concerns over the market for sustainability-linked loans (SLLs). Responding to concerns that banks overstate...more
The LSTA and LMA hosted their Joint New York Conference recently. One of the panels focused on “Sustainable Finance: Maintaining Integrity” and featured an impressive line-up of industry leaders in this space, including...more
In our last few editions of REF News and Views, we featured the Green Loan Series of articles in which we discussed the emergence of “green loans” and the Green Loan Principles − those principles that form the proposed...more
There has been a dramatic increase in appetite amongst funds for sustainability linked loans (SLLs), which are often commonly referred to as “ESG linked loans” or “KPI loans,” an appetite that is expected to continue to...more
Pre-COVID-19, pressure from investors, stakeholders and regulators helped jump-start green financing. The onset of the pandemic brought a temporary chilling effect to the global economy, but because sustainability-linked...more