(IN BRIEF) Eurex, on April 29, 2024, introduced a new Green Bond Basket within its GC Pooling segment, aimed at enhancing liquidity and efficiency in the European repo market for green bonds. This addition expands upon the existing three Green Bond Baskets launched in previous years, allowing clients to utilize EUR, USD, GBP, or CHF cash against a selection of 80 green bonds issued by sovereign and supranational entities across the European Economic Area. The inclusion of high-quality rated bonds, focusing on renewable energy and sustainable practices, underscores Eurex’s commitment to supporting environmentally sustainable initiatives while providing efficient collateral management solutions for market participants.
(PRESS RELEASE) FRANKFURT, 29-Apr-2024 — /EuropaWire/ — On 29 April 2024, Eurex launched an additional Green Bond Basket in its GC Pooling segment. This will increase liquidity and efficiency in the European repo market for green bonds, thus strengthening the green bond segment.
The new basket complements three other Green Bond Baskets that were already launched in the Special and GC Repo segments in 2020 and 2021.
The launch of the new GC Pooling Green Bond Basket allows clients to leverage EUR, USD, GBP, or CHF cash against a selection of 80 green bonds issued by sovereign, and supranational entities across seven countries within the European Economic Area. In turn, collateral received from the basket can be re-used for Eurex Clearing margin with Clearstream TriParty, leveraging the established GC Pooling market design to mitigate the risk of transaction failures.
The bonds included in the basket are issued in the areas of renewable energy, sustainable waste management, preservation of biodiversity and/or sustainable land utilization and are classified as a Green Bond pursuant to the data provided by WM Datenservice. They are a subset of the established Eurex Repo GC Pooling ECB basket with a minimum rating of A-/A3.
Carsten Hiller, Head of Repo Sales Europe, at Eurex: “The new offering underpins Eurex’s ESG-related initiatives and showcases its strong efforts to support the development of a well-functioning holistic eco-system for green bonds. We believe that this basket will facilitate greater involvement from market participants, enabling them to efficiently manage collateral while promoting green initiatives.”
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