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Just Eat Takeaway.com is the kind of company you are happy to have invested in.
Clients' successes
Societe Generale joins EBRD in financing Izmir metro
Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city, is receiving a new funding boost, despite the coronavirus pandemic, as Societe Generale is joining the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in financing the expansion of the city’s metro network.
Sustainable & Positive Impact Finance
Aligning impact portfolios of listed assets with the UN’s SDGs
Sustainable & Positive Impact Finance
How can Europe’s transition to electric vehicles mobilise capital?
Europe’s car industry is in a race to switch from combustion engine to electric propulsion. Not only does it need to comply with the EU’s new emissions regulations from 2021, but it must scale up quickly or face losing ground to competitors from Asia and the United States.
Sustainable & Positive Impact Finance
Will satellites become the eyes of sustainable investing?
Eyes in the sky don’t lie. Indeed, during the coronavirus outbreak satellites have shown a revealing picture of plummeting levels of nitrogen dioxide, a major pollutant associated with industrial activity, in locked down economies
Sustainable & Positive Impact Finance
Going beyond green bonds to finance sustainable development in emerging economies
While green bonds grab the news headlines for financing sustainable development in emerging economies, in fact they are a small part of the picture. Multilateral development banks are the most active agents of change as they pioneer methods of financing that encourage sustainable growth and foster more direct involvement from private sector banks and investors.
Clients' successes
The Spanish State Finance Agency updates its Social Bond framework and issues its first bond to address the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic
Instituto de Crédito Oficial recently expanded its Social Bond Framework to bolster its committment to those sectors identified as a priority due to their social, cultural, innovative or environmental significance.
Clients' successes
Fnac Darty benefits from the support of the French government... and its French banks
Fnac Darty Group is the first major French company to benefit from the State Guaranteed Loan facility for an amount of 500 million euros. It is strengthening its liquidity to cope with the crisis and prepare for the recovery of its activities.
Sustainable & Positive Impact Finance
What’s Green and Outperforms the Market?
Companies that take steps to become greener, historical data show, outperform similar companies that haven’t taken climate change action.
Trade Finance
Societe Generale wants to make trade finance greener
Societe Generale has launched a structured green trade finance initiative targeting customers active in clean energy or organising their transition from a carbon-intensive activity to a sustainable business model.
Clients' successes
ANZ achieved the first sustainability Tier 2 issuance from an Australian bank
Bank liquidity on Taiwan offshore
Taiwan is at the forefront of the offshore wind sector developing in the Asia Pacific region.
Clients' successes
FCC MedioAmbiente joins the green bond market to further protect the environment
FCC Medioambiente, one of the largest environmental services in the world, successfully joined the green bond market last December with an inaugural senior unsecured 1.1bn euro dual tranche.
Siemens Gamesa finances itself in green to combat climate change
Sustainable & Positive Impact Finance
Banks are the agents of change
The United Nations and the European Union have introduced prevailing frameworks and targets to boost development in a sustainable manner.
Clients' successes
Connecting global investors to Tokyo’s booming commercial real estate market
Space-starved Tokyo’s commercial real estate market is known as one of the region’s most robust, in-demand and lucrative investment destinations.
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Coronavirus crisis
Societe Generale mobilized to ensure the safety of its teams and its clients. Read more.
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