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

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

Sustainable Finance Framework

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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.

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

Why talk to us
Our offering

Dedicated sustainable finance platform

Deep knowledge and extensive experience

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

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

Recent deals

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Standard Bank provides CNBM with a R600-million sustainable finance solution

As Africa’s largest bank by assets, Standard Bank is proud to announce that it has successfully concluded a R600-million sustainable finance funding solution with China National Building Materials International (Pty) Ltd (CNBM) that will enable the company’s solar and energy storage solutions business in South Africa.

Standard Bank provides funding in support of TASC’s efforts towards emissions reductions

Standard Bank supports TASC’s efforts to reduce emissions, preserve biodiversity and improve the health and well being of rural communities through the funding of its efficient cookstove program.

Standard Bank supports STANLIB’s ambitions to expand its investment in infrastructure and sustainable energy

Standard Bank is proud to announce that it has provided the STANLIB Infrastructure Fund of Funds, managed by STANLIB Asset Management, with a revolving credit facility solution to fund future infrastructure and sustainable energy investments.

Standard Bank supports Sea Harvest’s ESG ambitions with a R175-million sustainability-linked working capital facility

Standard Bank is proud to announce that it has partnered with Sea Harvest to provide the company with a R175-million working capital facility embedding sustainability targets to incentivise the company to further its ESG ambitions. This transaction is the first of its kind in the Fisheries sector within the broader Consumer sector.

Standard Bank’s $100 million sustainability-linked financing towards growing Africa’s infrastructure

Standard Bank is excited to announce its efforts towards sustainability-linked financing have been bolstered as we have signed off a $75 million multicurrency revolving credit facility and a $25 million sustainability-linked term debt facility for the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF).

Standard Bank, Scatec and STANLIB set to revolutionise renewable energy access in South Africa

Standard Bank is proud to announce that it has advised Scatec and STANLIB in establishing a new renewable energy platform called Lyra Energy.

Standard Bank supports Norsad’s goal to build a better Africa, with a jointly arranged ZAR680m sustainability linked funding

Standard Bank is proud to announce that it has jointly provided African private debt firm, Norsad Capital Limited with a ZAR680 million 6-year sustainability-linked term loan to assist with its growth ambitions and impact investment goals.

Standard Bank delivers double commitment to Kenya’s off-grid solar energy company Greenlight Planet

Stanbic Bank Kenya has provided a commitment in Greenlight Planet Kenya’s $130m local currency securitisation and in a $20m local currency borrowing base facility.

Standard Bank funds Spear REIT Limited’s renewable energy, diversity and inclusion ambitions with their first R230m sustainability linked loan

Standard Bank is proud to announce that it has partnered with Spear REIT Limited to provide them with a R230-million sustainability linked loan which embeds key sustainability focus areas into their funding.

Standard Bank issues the first ZAR sustainability-linked bond in the financial sector

Standard Bank of South Africa is proud to announce it has issued its first R1.4 billion sustainability-linked bond listed on the JSE’s sustainability segment. This is the first sustainability-linked bond issued out of the financial sector in the country.