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'Momentum returning' to SLL market but targets and transition plans must improve, webinar hears
27 March 2025Momentum is returning to the sustainability-linked loan (SLL) market but further work is needed to ensure the credibility of Sustainability Performance Targets (SPTs), an Environmental Finance webinar heard.
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Greenwashing 'bogeyman' having tangible impact on sustainable loan flows
14 March 2025Fear 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.
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Transparency needed to bring more credibility to sustainable loans market
17 April 2024The sustainability-linked loan market is evolving, as it battles to overcome its credibility issues, the Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt EMEA conference heard.
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LMA urges vigilance on 'a la carte' sustainability-linked loans
08 July 2022The Loan Market Association (LMA) said that the sustainability-linked loan (SLL) label should be "earnt, not handed over," as the trade association warned against the development of 'sustainability à la carte'.
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ELFA, LMA outline sustainability-linked leveraged loan 'best practice'
10 December 2021'Best practice' guidance has been issued for completing the terms of sustainability-linked leveraged loans, including advice for transactions...
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Social Loan Principles launched by industry associations
13 April 2021Social Loan Principles (SLP) have been published by the trio of industry associations that administer the widely used voluntary principles for green and sustainability-linked loans.