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Long-term financing is helping the continent create more sustainable services and build cities to combat climate change

CAF, the Spanish multinational leader in the design and implementation of comprehensive mobility systems, has recently entrusted Societe Generale to act as fronting and issuing bank of a 107.9 million euros green guarantee facility to be utilized for the supply of electric trains in the scope of an interurban passenger rail transport project with zero direct...

By 2024, Warsan’s greenfield facility will process up to 45% of Dubai's municipal waste as well as generate up to 200 MW green electricity supplying 120,000 households.

An agreement spearheaded by a coalition of major banks is helping to put the world’s commercial maritime fleets on a more sustainable footing

Who would be an energy minister? Fuel and gas prices are soaring, smaller suppliers are going bankrupt and the political opposition claims people will freeze to death during a winter of power cuts.

The first ever SDG Sustainable Development Goals Bond issue out of Africa

Véronique de Bellefon, Marie-Gabrielle de Drouas and Sébastien Halley des Fontaines, respectively Head of CSR for Global Transaction & Payment Services, Positive Impact Structurer and Head of Structured Trade Finance at Societe Generale, describe how the banking sector is promoting the energy transition through its activities and internal policies.

For both individual and corporate customers, KYC (“Know Your Customer”) procedures are among the main friction points in the client journey. These steps, which are required by regulators, are necessary to combat fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing. However, there is still much room for improvement: that is the job of the “KYC Transformation” teams...

A first-of-its-kind green loan for the shipping industry will help New Zealand’s KiwiRail to commission and progressively upgrade two hybrid electric/diesel ferries that will carry the country towards its ambitious sustainability goals.

Inflation and its long-term impact on society is one of the most important questions facing investors, governments and central banks this year.

Acciona Energía, a Spanish renewable energy operator, successfully launched its first senior unsecured green bond last September with great demand from investors.

‘’Paper-based transactions, which still dominate international trade, are a source of cost, delay, inefficiency, fraud, error and environmental impact’’(1), G7, gathered in London in April 2021, said.

Press headlines relating shortages of goods and production inputs have become daily staple and even with some improvement on the health front, there seems to be little let up in the articles reporting various frictions and related price spikes.

First non-recourse green loan in China’s distributed solar sector is a landmark financing for commercial and industrial customers

A clear focus on sustainability can help Asia access the trillions of dollars needed for the transition to a cleaner, greener future