Apac offers significant growth potential for sustainable bonds: SocGen

Singapore

INCREASING top-down support from regulators and governments has driven the growth of global socially responsible investment (SRI) bonds in the past few years, with the supply from Asia-Pacific expected to ramp up as financing needs rise in the region, said Raj Malhotra, head of debt capital markets, Asia Pacific, Societe Generale.

The volume of issuance of such bonds has quadrupled since 2015, from 39 billion euros (S$59.5 billion) in 2015 t…