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A Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL) is a credit facility that offers companies a discounted rate if they can meet the Sustainability Performance Targets (SPT) detailed within their issuance. The terms of these loans are not tied to the use of proceeds, nor the projects funded, they are exclusively concerned with the borrower’s ESG related performance,…

The Chinese electric vehicle (EV) market has seen contrasting fortunes recently. NIO, a Chinese company specialized in the production and development of EVs saw its US-listed share price rise by over 1100% in the year 2020 with the pandemic and yet the share price performance of it and several other EV manufacturers slumped in the…

Informa PLC (Informa) has recently announced the sale of Pharma Intelligence to Warburg Pincus, the US private equity group, in a deal worth 1.9 billion GBP. This deal is part of a trend in which more technology and data analytics are being used to reduce the time to market for drugs, which is being driven…

Waves of price rallies and record low stockpiles in numerous commodity markets mark the start of a possible commodity crunch in 2022. The combinatory effects of bad weather, lack of investment, supply chain constraints and increasing geopolitical tensions have resulted in diminished supply and waning stockpiles across multiple sectors including agricultural products, industrial metals, and…

Germany has updated their ambitions for a renewable energy transition – aiming to fulfil all electricity needs from renewable sources by 2035. This contrasts against their previously rather vague target of being fossil fuel-free “well before 2040”. There has been increasing pressure for European countries to move away from Russia supplied gas specifically, which has…

After having been founded in 2014, the Singapore-based interior design start-up, Livspace, has become a unicorn start-up following a recent funding round which saw the company raise 180 million USD at a valuation of 1.2 billion USD. The latest funding round, which was completed on the 7th February 2022, included investors such as Kohlberg Kravis…

On the 4th February 2022, it was announced that Joe Biden, President of the United States, has renewed four years of tariffs on imported solar panels, which was previously implemented by the Trump administration. The steps have come under both praise and criticism. Praise for the approach in the perspective of increasing a national effort…

Artificial intelligence is the ability of a computer to do tasks usually carried out by humans, by mimicking human thinking to learn how to improve at tasks independently. Though there have been recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence, especially in the automotive and robotics industries, the field is still in its infancy. Although the software that…

Promising to be environmentally sustainable, cheaper to manufacture, and faster to build, modular construction is an attempt to bring the efficiency of the assembly line to the construction industry. Modular construction is a form of prefabrication where the building is produced in a factory and assembled on site. The factory produces standardised modules, which are…

In a transaction worth 6.6 billion USD, the low-cost airline Frontier has agreed to purchase rival airline Spirit, with Spirit shareholders receiving a 19 per cent premium compared to the value of their shareholding before the announcement. Spirit shares were only trading up by 13% in midday trading, however, representing uncertainty about whether the deal…