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KBN's first Green bond issuance of 2018 was carried out in the Australian dollar market this week.
1 October 2018The transaction represents KBN’s inaugural Green bond transaction in the AUD market and is the first Kangaroo Green Bond from an agency issuer since March 2015. The benchmark was upsized to AUD450m from the initial AUD250m minimum deal size, marking KBN’s largest AUD transaction since they began issuing in the market 17 years ago.
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NWB Bank issues second Social Bond of the year
25 September 2018For the second time this year NWB Bank has successfully launched an Affordable Housing Bond (Social Bond). This time the bank has issued a 5-year €1 billion benchmark Affordable Housing Bond. The proceeds of the issue of the bond will be credited to a special budget account that will support NWB Bank lending for social housing activities.
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NWB Bank finances solar projects in Asia via Climate Investor One
19 September 2018Cleantech Solar, the leading pan-Asian supplier of renewable energy to corporates, is the first company to receive an investment from the Climate Investor One fund. The equity investment amounts USD 50 million of which € 20mln is made available by NWB Bank via the facility the bank has granted to Climate Investor One last year.
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Rentenbank: Promotional loans for machinery and buildings particularly in demand, win energy financing faces headwinds
22 August 2018Frankfurt. In the first half of 2018, Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank extended low-interest special promotional loans of EUR 3.3 billion (H1 2017: EUR 3.6 billion). The decline was almost entirely attributable to a lower volume of wind turbine financing. In contrast, Germany’s development agency for agribusiness and rural areas saw growth in its Agribusiness and Rural Development promotional lines.
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The Group ICF facilitate the financing to 746 companies for an amount of 213 million euros in the first semester of the year
6 August 201897.6% of the funded companies has been small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurs, the main sectors of the Catalan economy. The ICF has activated during the six first months of the year new lines of loans with €250 M to promote the promotion and acquisition of housings destined to social rent. During the first semester of 2018, the Group ICF has facilitated the financing, through loans and guarantees, to 746 companies for a total amount of €213 million, which €147.9 M have been formalized through the ICF and €65.1 M through Avalis de Catalunya, with the objective of contribute to the growth and to the sustainability of the Catalan economy.
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