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Automated bond platform cut Volvo’s issuance lead time to a fraction
VIDEO | Preparing for a syndicated bond issuance requires mammoth effort, and even more so when you are the first issuer of such a bond on a new debt digitisation service. Yet, Volvo Treasury succeeded in doing just that on the Origin platform last year –...
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How to build a treasury in six months, the Ebusco way
VIDEO | Suddenly flushed with more funds than it knew what to do with after an IPO, Dutch electric bus manufacturer Ebusco needed a treasury, and fast. At the Treasury 360° Nordic conference, Guus Groote Schaarsberg, Senior Associate at Orchard Finance, and Jan Hermans, Ebusco’s...
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At H&M, resilience means setting up umbrellas before storm clouds appear
VIDEO | In his introduction of the session, Sander van Tol, Partner at Zanders, reminded us that the only certainty in business is uncertainty. Carl Gemzell, Group Treasurer, H&M then took the mic and illustrated the point by charting H&M’s tumultuous journey through the capital...
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With different businesses, different ways to tap funding in hard times
VIDEO | A comparative take on three corporations – NIBE Group, European Energy, and Falck, each represented by their treasurers – were topic for a full-room breakout session in the Thursday morning of the Treasury 360° conference. Their strategies to navigate the tougher debt market...
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Considering green bonds? Learn all about KfW’s big-scale example
VIDEO | With a flagship role to finance the world’s sustainability transition on behalf of Germany, development bank KfW sourced over 80 billion euro in funding only in 2021. Of this, 16 billion was issued under its “Green Bonds – Made by KfW” framework. In...
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New ESG metrics, new debt instruments – and a new treasurer role
VIDEO | By contracts with its debt holders, food-retail giant Ahold Delhaize will pay less for its funding if it can successfully reduce its carbon emissions, cut the food waste at its 7,000 shops, and make its 55 million weekly customers eat healthier. Treasury 360°...
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For investor dialogue, social media is now the natural place
VIDEO | With costs of traditional investor-recruitment roadshows running in the thousands of euro per day (and so even per recruited investor), the emergence of digital alternatives holds great promise for issuers – deepening and widening the investor communication as well as cutting cost. At...
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“We want to be followed by as many as possible”
With green bond issues worth 16 billion euro in 2021 alone, Germany’s development bank KfW is among the world leaders. On Thursday 9 June, group treasurer Tim Armbruster will speak with the Treasury 360° Nordic conference in Copenhagen. “The decade ahead will determine what consequences...
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Meet the world’s largest non-sovereign bond issuer
Germany’s development bank KfW is a giant, having raised 83 billion euro in international debt capital markets in 2021 alone to support its mandate to promote the transformation to a climate-friendly economy and society. On 9 June, meet Group Treasurer Tim Armbruster for a rare...
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Corporates dived into 2022 bond issuance
As the world’s corporations tried to lock in low interest rates before an expected rise, they issued 101 billion USD in bonds in the first seven days of 2022 alone, data firm Refinitiv observes.
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