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• Trade associations launch 'refreshed' sustainable loan principles

  26 March 2025

  Influential loan market associations have published an updated set of the widely used sustainable loan principles, with the most substantial changes made to the Sustainability Linked Loan Principles (SLLP).

• Greenwashing 'bogeyman' having tangible impact on sustainable loan flows

  14 March 2025

  Fear of 'greenwashing' risk is "clearly presenting a barrier" to the growth of labelled sustainable loans, with uncertainty linked to anti-greenwashing regulation also potentially contributing to the problem.

• 'Vital' LMA green loan drafting guidance to support market credibility

  11 November 2024

  The Loan Market Association (LMA) has published drafting guidance for green loan transactions to encourage greater consistency and support a "more active and robust" market in the future.

• 'Unlikely' potential Transition Loan Principles will launch in 2024

  13 September 2024

  The expert taskforce brought together by influential trade associations to look into developing ground-breaking Transition Loan Principles (TLP) is unlikely to publish any guidance before next year.

• SLLP consider formalising 'sleeping SLL' guardrails

  23 July 2024

  The Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles (SLLP) are preparing to formalise treatment of so-called 'sleeping SLLs' in its upcoming revision, including formalising "guardrails" to ensure these contested but "useful tools" are credible.

• Ground-breaking 'Transition Loan Principles' expected by November

  03 July 2024

  With formal principles on the horizon, the 'transition loan' market could be on the cusp of a new era - a dramatic step-change that could extend into the bond market. Ahren Lester reports

• ICMA, LMA release 'sustainability-linked loan bond' guidance

  25 June 2024

  Two debt industry bodies have jointly published guidance for the issuance of bonds dedicated to financing sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) in order to develop a new sustainable finance product and support the credibility of the performance-based lending instrument.

• Sustainability-linked loan model 'may have been ahead of its time'

  18 April 2024

  The model for sustainability-linked loans "might have been ahead of its time" in the leeway it gives borrowers to choose which sustainability-related indicators they will be judged against, an Environmental Finance conference heard.

• LMA exploring 'transition loan' label as sustainability-linked debt flounders

  28 March 2024

  The Loan Market Association (LMA) is exploring the creation of a label for loans that finance climate transition-themed projects or activities, as it considers how to drive more investment in 'hard-to-abate' sectors.

• External reviews are the 'main sticking point' for sustainable loan deals

  30 October 2023

  Updated guidance on external reviews is being readied, the Loan Market Association's Gemma Lawrence-Pardew tells Ahren Lester