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IBEC votes for green investments

The International Bank for Economic Co-operation has supported the first issue of green bonds in the Russian stock market history. IBEC subscribed to 10% of the issue of Center-invest Bank securities. In total, 250 thousand bonds with a nominal value of 1,000 rubles each were sold by open subscription. The Moscow Exchange has included Center-invest bonds in the Green Bonds Segment of the Sustainable Development Sector. "The funds raised are going to be used to finance and refinance loans for the implementation of energy-efficient projects, development of renewable energy and environmentally friendly transport," the Moscow Exchange said. According to the RAEX-Europe credit rating agency report, Center-invest Bank's issue of this type of bonds is carried out in accordance with the Green Bond Principles 2018 developed by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA).

According to Anna Kuznetsova, Board Member - Managing director of the stock market of the Moscow Exchange: “our Sustainable Development Sector will help to promote issuers with the targeted nature of investments attracted to the public market and will help to finance companies implementing environmental and social projects. We are pleased to include the securities of the first issuer in the Sustainable Development Sector and look forward to the arrival of new participants who manage to increase the investment attractiveness of their instruments.”

“Supporting the green sector of the economy is one of the important components of the IBEC strategy as a multilateral development institution. Therefore, the bank took the opportunity to support the initiative of Russian colleagues to popularize new financial instruments with an environmental focus. Moreover, we are talking not only about a separate security, but about the launch of an entire infrastructure for such products” -said Denis Ivanov, Chairman of the IBEC Board.

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