Fossil lending

The Box Mar 23 (Credit Suisse/UBS update)

Written by Ulf Erlandsson & Johan Jarnmo

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This report provides the Mar-23 net green/fossil bond syndication league tables ahead of the International Monetary Market (IMM) date (and derivative rolls).

The intent of these league tables is to rank the relative tilt of individual counterparties’ commercial banking activities for purposes of ‘The Box’ counterparty selection algorithms. The report covers a select number of large and intermediate potential counterparties.

Fees are calculated over a two-year rolling window, and changes are reported versus the last report in Dec-22 as well as compared to Mar-22 and Mar-21.

Following last week’s implosion of Credit Suisse and the subsequent acquisition by UBS over the weekend, orchestrated by the Swiss authorities, we update our net green/fossil syndication fee league tables to reflect the merged entity.

In the original Mar 2023 article UBS was ranked 1 and Credit Suisse was ranked 6. We now show that when combining fees for the two they end up with a rank of 3, shifting HSBC to the top instead. When observing the intermediate institutions, Rabobank and Natixis exhibit the largest moves compared to the last report.

About the authors

Ulf Erlandsson

Ulf Erlandsson

Founder, Board member

Dr Ulf Erlandsson founded the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute and was its first CEO. A pioneer of climate-focused fixed income portfolio management, he was named Environmental Finance’s Bond Personality of the Year 2022.

Johan Jarnmo

Johan Jarnmo

Associate Director, Portfolio Strategy

Johan develops tools and analytics that help fixed income investors invest in a climate- and nature-positive way, including AFII’s portfolio tools Co₂liseum and FIONA. He previously worked in Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice.

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