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Green Loans

ESG

South-east Asia’s ESG bond issuance extends decline with 75% drop in Q2 2025

Environmental, social and governance loans see a smaller decrease, with funds raised dipping 7.6% to US$7.7 billion

AirTrunk will partner technology companies to develop the new data centre, which will be sited in Loyang – where its first data centre AirTrunk SGP1 (above) is located.
Global Enterprise

Blackstone-backed AirTrunk secures S$2.3 billion green loan for second Singapore hyperscale data centre

The green loan has the option of conversion to a sustainability-linked loan, where interest rates vary based on the borrower’s ability to achieve sustainability performance indicators

The green loan was jointly provided by UOB, Bank of China’s Singapore branch and OCBC under GuocoLand’s green finance framework.
Companies & Markets

GuocoLand secures S$619.3 million green loan for River Valley Green development

This project adds to the company’s expanding pipeline of green-certified developments

DBS’ enhanced framework supports funding for hard-to-abate sectors working to reduce emissions but fall outside traditional green taxonomies.
Sustainable Finance
BRANDED CONTENT

Transition finance: Where business meets green growth

Serving as a catalyst for strategic business transformation, transition finance supports decarbonisation across global supply chains and complex systems

Governments in the region have expressed continued commitment to accelerate decarbonisation initiatives, in the wake of Trump saying he will withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement again.
Sustainable Finance

Sustainable finance in S-E Asia to remain robust in 2025 despite Trump-led climate setback

Regional governments have renewed their commitments and built a track record, say bankers

To date, GuocoLand has secured about S$5 billion in green financing.
Companies & Markets

GuocoLand bags S$1.2 billion in green loans

One of the two facilities is the group’s largest to date, and will be used to refinance its latest integrated mixed development

Citigroup ranks as the world’s fourth underwriter of green bonds since the start of the decade.
Companies & Markets

Citigroup, BofA exit global climate-banking alliance

CITIGROUP and Bank of America said they are leaving a global climate-banking group, becoming the latest Wall Street lenders to exit the coalition in the past month.

Resource-rich Indonesia is aiming for net-zero carbon emissions by 2060.
Asean Business

ADB approves US$500 million loan for Indonesia’s energy transition efforts

THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Friday (Sep 20) that it has approved a US$500 million policy-based loan to Indonesia to fund a programme designed to help its energy transition efforts.

Serena Teo, chief executive of the managers of CapitaLand Ascott Trust, says the latest facility brings the stapled group’s sustainable financing to over S$700 million.
Sustainable Finance

CapitaLand Ascott Trust bags S$165 million OCBC sustainability-linked loan

The stapled group is said to have ‘greened’ 51 per cent of its global portfolio by gross floor area as at May 2024

CDL intends to use proceeds from the loan for general corporate funding and working capital purposes, including the redevelopment of the group’s existing assets.
Sustainable Finance

City Developments takes out S$400 million sustainability-linked loan from DBS

The loan marks the first of its kind with criteria guided by targets set by the company

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