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The Creation of Value through Sustainable Debt Instruments
Sustainable debt instruments, and in particular green bonds, sustainability-linked bonds, and green loans, represent an innovative, constantly-growing solution to finance business activities and projects. These instruments are characterized by the possible presence of the so-called greenium, the negative premium that debt subscribers are willing to pay the issues for those instruments. Although the ...
ESG Rating and Credit: How to Assess Integrated Risk
A sustainability rating, or ESG rating, represents an appropriate integration of the information on business risk deriving from the more consolidated credit rating. An integrated approach that involves a joint assessment of the financial solidity of a company (credit rating) and its sustainability (or solidity of the business model), allows for innovating risk management activity by making it more ...
Accelerating the Transition: Financial Services Must Also Do Their Part
In the last two years, the increase of social disturbances, the growing attention to climate change, and the need to act on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, has attracted attention from companies in all sectors. Financial services companies are also called on to catalyze and accelerate the transition toward a new economy, based on ecosystems that satisfy the needs of all stakeholders. ...
The Impact of Sustainability on the Cost of Capital
The concept of creation of value has recently taken on a new feature, the sharing of value for all of the stakeholders involved. In order for this to occur, it is necessary for business strategies and models to be structured and managed in an amply sustainable vision in environmental, social, cultural, and ethical terms. Companies that are associated with high ESG performance have easier access to ...
Sustainable Finance. Why It Has to Change
In the focus of this issue of Economia&Management , some colleagues from the REPAiR present studies and analyses on the future of finance, developed in the context of the new laboratory at the SDA Bocconi.
Green Finance and Sustainable Regeneration
Sustainable finance aims to create long-term value by directing capital during both the design and the management phases of urban regeneration projects. Through stakeholder-centric financial intermediaries, such as banks and new operators, and through new investment instruments (green, social, and sustainability bonds), the regeneration of entire dilapidated or abandoned areas generates considerable ...