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...
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°...
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...
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...
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...
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.
VIDEO | Speaking with Treasury 360° Stockholm in early December, Euronext Securities’ Bjørn Stendorph Crepaz lined out how corporations can issue bonds for an international investor community, while going through a central securities depository (CSD) in the region – rather than going through one of...
VIDEO | Lining out the development of the bond market through the decades, Euronext Securities’ Bjørn Crepaz pointed to the increasing possibilities of issuing debt for an international investor community – but through a CSD in your own region.
VIDEO | A ten-year euro bond at a 0.5 percent coupon was one of the early successes as Finnish forest industry group UPM, after it recently started issuing green bonds. Funding director Marjut Artimo lined out her framework in the Treasury 360° Helsinki conference on...