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BNP Paribas is the European Union's leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 190,000 employees, including nearly 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group's commercial & personal banking and several specialised businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval ; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment and protection solutions ; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, Eastern Europe as well as via a large network in the western part of the United States. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific.
BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability.
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Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking is a leading global financial institution that provides advisory, investment banking, financing, corporate banking and capital markets services to corporations, financial institutions, financial sponsors and sovereign and supranational organizations worldwide.
Our teams of experts in around 30 countries advise clients on their strategic development, helping them to grow and transform their businesses, and maximize their positive impact.
We are committed to aligning our financing portfolio with a carbon neutrality path by 2050 while helping our clients reduce the environmental impact of their business.
As part of the global financial services division of Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France through the Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne retail networks, Natixis CIB benefits from the Group's financial strength and solid financial ratings (Standard & Poor's: A, Moody's: A1, Fitch: AA-, R&I: A+)
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RBC Capital Markets, part of Royal Bank of Canada, is a premier global investment bank with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach. We provide expertise in banking, finance and capital markets to corporations, institutional investors, asset managers and governments from 60 offices in 16 countries across North America, the UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Our 7,000 professionals leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We deliver the experience and insights required to raise capital, access markets, mitigate risk and acquire or dispose of assets for our 21,500 clients worldwide and we are consistently ranked among the 10 largest, most significant investment banks globally.
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Societe Generale is a leading European financial services group. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth. Committed to the positive transformations of the world, the Group seeks to build, together with its clients, a better and sustainable future through responsible and innovative financial solutions.
With a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale has over 117,000 members of staff in 66 countries and supports on a daily basis 25 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world.
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Sustainable Fitch provides insights, tools and data that have been designed and built entirely and exclusively to help bring clarity to the ESG financial community. Our focus is, and will always be, on providing transparent, objective and substantive data that enables confidence in decision-making. To best serve our clients and partners, Fitch realized that it would be necessary to build an entirely new product suite of objective ESG data and analysis, focusing on consistency, comparability, coverage and granularity. Leaning on our expertise in best-in-class analytics and research, and reputation for transparency and integrity, our team of leading ESG experts came together to bring the financial community a robust and comprehensive ESG data and analysis solution. Powered by the human insight that has differentiated Fitch for over 100 years, Sustainable Fitch brings experience and heritage to help the financial community make smarter decisions, using the best ESG information available.
For more information, visit www.sustainablefitch.com
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ANZ Banking Group provides banking and financial products and services to more than 8.5 million retail, business and Institutional customers. Building on a proud banking heritage spanning over 180 years, ANZ is one of Australia’s largest listed companies. Ranked the No.1 Institutional Bank across Australia, New Zealand and Asia on a range of measures, ANZ Institutional has operations in 29 markets globally focused on supporting multinational corporations and financial institutions with the movement of trade and capital around the world.
ANZ’s purpose is to shape a world where people and communities thrive. Our Sustainable Finance team is helping our Institutional customers by encouraging them to identify climate and nature-related risks and opportunities. We’ve set a target to fund and facilitate at least A$100 billion by the end of 2030 in social and environmental outcomes through customer activities & direct investments by ANZ. ANZ is also an issuer of sustainable finance debt having previously issued five Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) bonds.
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Our purpose – Opening up a world of opportunity – explains why we exist. We're here to use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open up new kinds of opportunity for our customers. We're bringing together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world – for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share.
We're mobilising finance to support our customers' transitions to net zero, accelerating innovation to help scale up climate change solutions and building global partnerships to ensure investment is swiftly channelled towards truly sustainable projects.
We are committed to aligning the financed emissions from our portfolio of customers to net zero by 2050 or sooner, in line with the Paris Agreement goals. To help get there, our target by 2030 is to provide between USD750 billion and USD1 trillion of finance and investment towards the transition.
For more information, please visit https://www.gbm.hsbc.com/
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IFC—a member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year 2023, IFC committed a record $43.7 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity as economies grapple with the impacts of global compounding crises.
For more information, please visit www.ifc.org.
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ING is a leading European universal bank. Our more than 60,000 employees serve around 37 million customers, corporate clients and financial institutions in over 40 countries. Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. Our products include savings, payments, investments, loans and mortgages in most of our retail markets. For our Wholesale Banking clients, we provide specialised lending, tailored corporate finance, debt and equity market solutions, sustainable finance solutions, payments & cash management and trade and treasury services. When it comes to sustainability, we facilitate and finance society’s shift to a low-carbon future and pioneer innovative forms of finance to support a better world. Sustainability forms an integral part of ING’s strategy. For more information please visit https://www.ing.com/.
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As a leading global provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis, we offer valuable insights into the financial stability and creditworthiness of organizations, debt instruments, and securities.
Credit ratings from Moody's Ratings allow issuers to create timely, go-to-market debt strategies and capture wider investor focus. Likewise, investors gain a broad view of global debt markets through our credit ratings and research.
Moody's insights can help decision-makers navigate through market volatility.
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MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.
For more information, please visit https://www.msci.com/
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Nordea is a universal bank with a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies – enabling dreams and aspirations for a greater good. Every day, we work to support our customers’ financial development, delivering best-in-class omnichannel customer experiences and driving sustainable change. The Nordea share is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki, Nasdaq Copenhagen and Nasdaq Stockholm exchanges. Read more about us at nordea.com.
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S&P Global Ratings is the world's leading provider of independent credit ratings. Our ratings are essential to driving growth, providing transparency and helping educate market participants so they can make decisions with confidence. We have more than 1 million credit ratings outstanding on government, corporate, financial sector and structured finance entities and securities. We offer an independent view of the market built on a unique combination of broad perspective and local insight. We provide our opinions and research about relative credit risk; market participants gain independent information to help support the growth of transparent, liquid debt markets worldwide.
S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), the world's foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics in the global capital and commodity markets, offering ESG solutions, deep data and insights on critical economic, market and business factors. S&P Global has been providing essential intelligence that unlocks opportunity, fosters growth and accelerates progress for more than 160 years. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings
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A trusted partner for the long term
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), a Tokyo-based bank holding company that is ranked among the largest banks globally by assets under management.
The Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Division is an integral part of SMBC Group’s Global Business Unit. Having first established an office in London over a century ago, SMBC has steadily grown its footprint across the region, and today has a network of over 30 offices in 20 cities, consisting of branches, representative offices and subsidiaries.
SMBC Bank International (registered in the UK) and SMBC Bank EU AG (registered in Germany) are wholly owned subsidiaries of SMBC and are responsible for the management and control of much of the Group’s activities across EMEA.
Through its combined entities, the EMEA Division delivers a universal banking platform and a full suite of corporate finance solutions to its customers. SMBC’s Corporate and Investment Banking platform offers a broad range of wholesale banking products and services in corporate, structured and trade finance, leveraged finance, loan capital markets, sustainable finance, treasury, and asset financing and leasing.
In addition, it provides investment banking and advisory services and a range of innovative solutions in global capital markets.
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T. Rowe Price is an asset management firm focused on delivering global investment management excellence that investors can rely on—now, and over the long term. Founded in 1937 in Baltimore, Maryland, T. Rowe Price’s clients have entrusted the firm with US $1.45 trillion in assets under management.* T. Rowe Price is committed to responsible investment and its disciplined investment approach is rooted in proprietary research. T. Rowe Price’s experienced investment professionals around the globe actively seek to identify investment risks and opportunities, with ESG factors as one of many considerations in its investment process. T. Rowe Price believes its principled investing approach helps the firm pursue better outcomes for its investors over the long term.
For more information, visit www.troweprice.com/blueeconomy
*Preliminary data as of December 31, 2023. Subject to adjustment. Firmwide assets under management include assets managed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and its investment advisor affiliates.
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The Carbon Trust is a global climate consultancy driven by the mission to accelerate the move to a decarbonised future. Climate pioneers for over 20 years, it partners with businesses, governments and financial institutions to drive positive climate action.
From strategic planning and target setting to implementation and communication, the Carbon Trust turns ambition into impact. To date, its 400 experts have helped set over 200 science-based targets and guided more than 3,000 organisations and cities across five continents on their route to Net Zero.
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DNB is Norway's largest financial services group and one of the largest in the Nordic region in terms of market capitalization. We offer our corporate clients financial services from our offices around the globe. DNB is one of the world's leading shipping banks and has a strong position in the energy sector, and the fisheries and seafood industry.
DNB's investment banking arm offers services such as risk management, investment and financing products in the capital markets to the Group's customers through offices in Stockholm, London, New York, Singapore and our head office in Norway.
Sustainability is integrated into all parts of our business operations and DNB will be a driving force for sustainable transition. DNB has an overall goal of achieving net-zero emissions from our financing and investment activities by 2050 and we will use our position and expertise to actively help our customers to move in a more sustainable direction, through advisory services, financing and clear requirements. For more information, please visit About the Group - DNB.
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Ethifinance is an innovative European Credit and ESG Rating, Research and Advisory Group. We provide tools and solutions to investors, corporates and organizations to meet the challenges of financing and environmental and societal transformation.
Through our five business lines, we offer a wide range of financial and sustainability service solutions. On the ESG side, our ESG Rating Agency provides assessment products that are rooted in proprietary and publicly available methodologies, and we provide off-the shelf as well as solicited ESG ratings, ESG data sets and Second Party Opinions on green and sustainable bonds and loans. Our ESG Advisory & Solutions unit help investors and financial institutions navigate the complexity of ESG regulations and develop robust sustainable products and strategies. We provide an ESG assessment platform for unlisted assets (private equity, private debt, venture capital, real estate), and we support investors with ESG screening and reporting as well as advisory services.
Our Analytics team help banks and financial institutions assess their risks thanks to robust modelling capabilities and we provide environmental modelling (climate and biodiversity) as well as financial risk modelling services. With more than 160 employees, Ethifinance, is established in France, Spain and Germany, with offices in Granada, Lyon, Madrid, Hanover and Paris. It serves over 350 clients across Europe, corporates (SMEs, mid- and large caps), financial institutions, as well as investors (asset managers, institutional investors, private equity) and local authorities.
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ISS-Corporate is a leading provider of cutting-edge SaaS and high-touch advisory services to companies, globally. Companies turn to ISS-Corporate for expertise in designing and managing governance, compensation, sustainability, and cyber risk programs that align with company goals, reduce risk, and manage the needs of a diverse shareholder base by delivering data, tools, and advisory services. ISS-Corporate's global client base extends across North America, Europe, and Asia, as well as other established and emerging markets worldwide.
As part of its sustainable finance solutions, ISS-Corporate's Second Party Opinion (SPO) services provides issuers with an independent assessment of their Green, Social and Sustainability-linked Financing Frameworks, and investors assurance that the projects they fund adhere to industry best practices and market guidelines.
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MainStreet Partners was born in 2008 with a big dream in mind: to help investors to achieve consistent financial returns while improving people's lives and protecting our planet.
MainStreet is the trusted ESG partner of top-tier investors and distributors for a simple reason: it provide a one stop shop for their sustainability requirements at portfolio level. MainStreet's clients comprise some of the most sophisticated and leading Wealth Managers, Asset Managers, Investment Banks, and Asset Owners in the financial industry.
MainStreet is part of Allfunds Group, one of the leading global Wealth Tech companies with a service offering tailored for Fund Houses and Distributors. MainStreet is located in London and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. It offers a unique and user-friendly platform hosting all proprietary data across asset classes on ESGeverything.COM
For more information, please visit: MSPartners.ORG
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Sustainalytics, a Morningstar Company, is a leading ESG research, ratings and data firm that supports investors around the world with the development and implementation of responsible investment strategies. For more than 25 years, the firm has been at the forefront of developing high-quality, innovative solutions to meet the evolving needs of global investors. Today, Sustainalytics works with hundreds of the world's leading asset managers and pension funds who incorporate ESG and corporate governance information and assessments into their investment processes. Sustainalytics also works with hundreds of companies and their financial intermediaries to help them consider sustainability in policies, practices and capital projects. With 16 offices globally, Sustainalytics has more than 800 staff members, including more than 300 analysts with varied multidisciplinary expertise across more than 40 industry groups.
For more information, visit www.sustainalytics.com.
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Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com.
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SIX is a global financial services provider supporting the entire value chain. SIX operates the Swiss, Spanish and Digital Stock Exchanges, providing post trade services in domestic and global markets. Financial Information provides global data services and solutions. The Group also orchestrates Banking Services on behalf of the Swiss National Bank. The company is owned by its users (120 banks). With a workforce of 4,044 employees and a presence in 20 countries, it generated operating income of CHF 1.5 billion and Group net profit of CHF 185.0 million in 2022.
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We support our clients throughout the lifecycle of their capital structure, from initial acquisition to refinancing and – in many cases – exit, dealing with related treasury requirements as they arise in the meantime.
Our team sets itself apart by focussing on client relationships rather than on particular financing practice areas. This allows us to deploy smaller, but more versatile, teams that draw expertise from our banking, DCM, securitisation, derivatives and tax specialists to deliver a service that is carefully tailored to the needs of our clients.
Sustainability is a whole business proposition for us. We view sustainability and climate change as fundamental considerations within all strategic and operational decision making, impacting all businesses and organisations. We understand the challenges and opportunities developing within the transition to a low carbon and sustainable future, and provide our clients with expert advice and insight on securing long term responsible business practices and resilience.