Corporate and Investment
Sustainable Finance
Responsible Banking Solutions with Sustainable Finance
As an African bank, we aim to empower our clients by providing them with a range of innovative products and solutions. Our dedicated Sustainable Finance team works to offer a broad spectrum of product solutions that range from debt management to advisory and support services. Our focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) ensures that we maintain a complete top-down view on all aspects of your business to help manage regulatory and compliance risk while helping to adhere to ethical and environmental standards.
Find out how sustainable finance could help drive Africa’s economic recovery.
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Some of the benefits
Supporting sustainable growth
We provide products and services to drive sustainable development and economic growth
At the Forefront of ESG Integration
We strive for innovative ESG integration into product development and client engagements
Established Lending and Advisory Expertise
Our ESG advisory capabilities span across our Project Finance, Export Credit and Corporate Finance product offerings
Influencing the Sustainable Finance Agenda
We are consistently party to conversations around the future of ESG and how it is shaping business decisions across Africa
Standard Bank’s Sustainable Finance journey
Standard Bank is committed to doing good business by driving sustainable and inclusive economic growth.
We are focused, primarily through our Sustainable Finance division, on providing financial products and services that support positive ESG outcomes. ESG means investing in a better, more sustainable future, by living our values as we add value to the bottom line.
This is our journey to-date.
Sustainable finance solutions from Standard Bank
Standard Bank is a leading provider of innovative and sustainable business finance offerings in Africa.
Our products and services benefit clients, communities and the corporate governance landscape while striving to respect our environmental responsibilities.
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Why talk to us
- Dedicated sustainable finance platform
Our Sustainable Finance business unit works with clients and consumers to deliver a broad range of sustainable products and services across the Standard Bank Group. These offerings include personal banking, green and social bonds, project finance, the sustainable loans market and sustainable trade.
- Deep knowledge and extensive experience
Our expert team of sustainable finance specialists provide ESG advisory services, both to our clients and other financial institutions, for limited recourse projects, acquisitions, other structured solutions and corporate strategy.
- Driving ESG integration and promoting client sustainability strategies
We help our clients to use ESG as a differentiator for their businesses so that they can outperform their competitors in market position and through improved margins.
- Innovative and sustainable solutions
Our pioneering approach to structuring and executing sustainable finance products lets us provide novel solutions to our clients as we partner to deliver first-to-market solutions.
- Partnered with the sustainable finance community
Standard Bank is the longest serving chair of the Global Equator Principles Steering Committee, a working group lead on the International Chamber of Commerce Sustainable Trade and a member of the National Task Force for Impact Investing and continues to participate and drive the sustainable finance agenda.
Our offering
- Sustainability linked funding
- Green, social and sustainable bonds and loans
- Transition bonds and loans
- Sustainable trade and supply chain finance
- Impact investing
- ESG corporate advisory
- E&S project advisory
- ESG linked deposits and personal banking options
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Why talk to us
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Our offering
- Dedicated sustainable finance platform
Our Sustainable Finance business unit works with clients and consumers to deliver a broad range of sustainable products and services across the Standard Bank Group. These offerings include personal banking, green and social bonds, project finance, the sustainable loans market and sustainable trade.
- Deep knowledge and extensive experience
Our expert team of sustainable finance specialists provide ESG advisory services, both to our clients and other financial institutions, for limited recourse projects, acquisitions, other structured solutions and corporate strategy.
- Driving ESG integration and promoting client sustainability strategies
We help our clients to use ESG as a differentiator for their businesses so that they can outperform their competitors in market position and through improved margins.
- Innovative and sustainable solutions
Our pioneering approach to structuring and executing sustainable finance products lets us provide novel solutions to our clients as we partner to deliver first-to-market solutions.
- Partnered with the sustainable finance community
Standard Bank is the longest serving chair of the Global Equator Principles Steering Committee, a working group lead on the International Chamber of Commerce Sustainable Trade and a member of the National Task Force for Impact Investing and continues to participate and drive the sustainable finance agenda.
- Sustainability linked funding
- Green, social and sustainable bonds and loans
- Transition bonds and loans
- Sustainable trade and supply chain finance
- Impact investing
- ESG corporate advisory
- E&S project advisory
- ESG linked deposits and personal banking options
Get in touch
Sasha Cook
Head: Sustainable Finance
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Anneke Lund
Executive: Sustainable Finance
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Recent deals
Landmark sustainability-linked loan indicates a shift towards sustainable finance solutions
This JSE-listed real estate investment trust (REIT) has closed a sustainability-linked loan with us aimed at promoting the achievement of various environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) targets.
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