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.
Some of the benefits
Supporting sustainable growth
At the Forefront of ESG Integration
Established Lending and Advisory Expertise
Influencing the Sustainable Finance Agenda
- 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
- ESG corporate advisory
- E&S project advisory
- ESG linked deposits and personal banking options
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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
- ESG corporate advisory
- E&S project advisory
- ESG linked deposits and personal banking options