{"id":439143,"date":"2021-09-30T08:24:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T02:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439143"},"modified":"2021-09-30T09:33:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T04:03:51","slug":"sembcorp-launches-sustainability-linked-bond-raises-s675-mn-for-asian-mkt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sembcorp-launches-sustainability-linked-bond-raises-s675-mn-for-asian-mkt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sembcorp launches sustainability-linked bond, raises S$675 mn for Asian mkt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global energy major Sembcorp launched its first Sustainability linked Bonds (SLB) and raised S$675 million. The company it is the first and largest such issuance in the Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>This also marks the latest phase in the transition to a net-zero future by the company, Sembcorp said in a statement. The SLB issuance was anchored by IFC with an investment of S$150 million. This is the first SLB investment by IFC.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike traditional green bonds, SLBs involve issuers pledging to improve their performance against tailor-made ESG (environmental, social and governance) targets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sembcorp, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Sembcorp Financial Services Pte. Ltd., priced its inaugural SLB today anchored by an investment of S$150 million from IFC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global energy major Sembcorp launched its first Sustainability linked Bonds (SLB) and raised S$675 million. The company it is the first and largest such issuance in the Southeast Asia. This also marks the latest phase in the transition to a net-zero future by the company, Sembcorp said in a statement. The SLB issuance was anchored by IFC with an investment of S$150 million. This is the first SLB investment by IFC. Unlike traditional green bonds, SLBs involve issuers pledging to improve their performance against tailor-made ESG (environmental, social and governance) targets. &#8220;Sembcorp, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Sembcorp Financial Services Pte. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}