World’s first Green Bond to adapt to the European Green Bond Standard
Handelsbanken served as Green Structuring Advisor to the Swedish real estate company Diös on the development of the world’s first financing structure to conform to the proposed European Green Bond Standard. The inaugural SEK 500m green bond was successfully placed on Thursday November 11[th] 2021, under strong investor interest. "We aren't just targeting alignment to the proposed standard, we’re targeting alignment to the future in-effect regulation with the addition of new mechanisms in both the offering and the prospectus to enable post-issuance accreditation as a European Green Bond",