Top Underwriter of Green Bonds HSBC Eyes $1 Trillion Market
- HSBC expects market to reach that level by first half of 2021
- Companies can transform internal wiring with these bond sales
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More first-time issuers are likely to tap financing markets for environmentally and socially responsible debt in the next year or so, bringing the total outstanding amount of such bonds to about $1 trillion by the first half of 2021, according to HSBC Holdings Plc.
“We’re still discovering new clients that have not issued in a sustainable format,” said Jean-Marc Mercier, global co-head of debt capital markets at HSBC, the biggest underwriter of the bonds this year, in an interview in Tokyo. The “internal wiring” of the borrower is transformed in selling such debt, he said.