The growth of sustainability-linked financing has been extraordinary. Lenders are increasingly assessing borrowers through an ESG lens, reflecting lenders’ own stretching commitments to deploy capital responsibly, and recognising the role sustainability has to play in enhancing borrowers’ long-term business resilience and value creation.
Borrowers, therefore, have an opportunity to capitalise on lenders’ appetite for sustainability-linked debt to deliver competitive financing terms and future proof the capital structure. But the ESG bar is rising. Lenders now expect borrowers to make stretching, measurable ESG commitments that can be independently assured.
Are you a business looking to raise finance to support your sustainability journey?
How confident are you that you can articulate your ESG priorities to your lenders in a way that will obtain their support?
