MHI Finalizes Terms of First Transition Bond Issuance

TOKYO, Sep 2, 2022 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has finalized the issuance terms of the transition bond being issued today via public offering in the domestic market, as announced in the Company's press release of August 5, 2022.The issuance is based on MHI's selection as a model example for the "2021 Climate Transition Finance Model Projects"* being supported by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), as announced in the Company's press release of March 18, 2022. One of the unique features of this model example is that MHI not only plans to achieve emission reductions from its own economic activities, but will also attempt to enable the realization of transition strategies of other parties through its products and services.Through issuance of its first transition bond, MHI looks to diversify its fund procurement methods and achieve its target of carbon neutrality by 2040.*Projects supported by METI which provide information on and reduce the assessment costs of examples that are deemed to have model qualities for promoting the spread of transition finance. Examples that conform to the "Basic Guidelines on Climate Transition Finance," formulated by the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) and the Financial Services Agency (FSA), and have model qualities are selected as model examples. For further information: bit.ly/3RgPNh5About MHI GroupMitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group is one of the world's leading industrial groups, spanning energy, smart infrastructure, industrial machinery, aerospace and defense. MHI Group combines cutting-edge technology with deep experience to deliver innovative, integrated solutions that help to realize a carbon neutral world, improve the quality of life and ensure a safer world. For more information, please visit www.mhi.com or follow our insights and stories on spectra.mhi.com. Copyright 2022 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. (via SEAPRWire)

MHI to Issue its First Transition Bond

TOKYO, Aug 5, 2022 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) today submitted a revised shelf registration statement to the Kanto Local Finance Bureau in preparation for planned issuance of a transition bond in the Japanese market. The issuance will be undertaken to raise funds for allocation to diverse initiatives toward achieving carbon neutrality.The planned issuance is based on MHI's selection as a model example of the "2021 Climate Transition Finance Model Projects" being supported by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), as announced in the Company's press release of March 18, 2022. One of the unique features of this model example is that MHI not only plans to achieve emission reduction from the economic activities of itself but also attempts to enable the realization of transition strategies of other parties through its products and services. Through issuance of its first transition bond, MHI looks to diversify its fund procurement methods and achieve its target of carbon neutrality by 2040.For more information visit https://www.mhi.com/news/22080502.html. Copyright 2022 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. (via SEAPRWire)

Phaeton Announces ESG Bond Exchange to Power Its Green Environmental Goals

Perth, Australia, Oct 1, 2021 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Phaeton, a decentralised ledger system, announced the launch of Phaeton ESG Bond Exchange powered by blockchain technology. The launch of its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Bond fits well with Phaeton's core ethos of using its technology to make a positive social impact. In addition, Phaeton is planning to take on the already crowded DeFi market with a new use case. While several DeFi protocols offer various payment solutions, such as lending and borrowing, Phaeton plans to serve a new market segment with its ESG Bonds.Phaeton ESG Bonds will finance Phaeton's projects, such as its Green Modular Data Centres, Smarter Housing and Solar Farms. However, the Phaeton ESG Bond Exchange will also be open to the public and governments worldwide, making it a diverse asset offering. Bond market stability is something Phaeton is banking on as bond markets play a significant role in ensuring financial stability for both buyers and issuers. When the stock market hits a correction, the bond market is a far more stable option for generating wealth.Phaeton wants to tap into the growing ESG bonds market. One model, which has gained significant attention, has been the growth of Green Bonds. Lately, corporate issuers have sought innovative ways to access the now burgeoning ESG-conscious capital market with new bond trading models such as transition bonds and sustainability-linked bonds. Additionally, the arrival of COVID-19 has also created a need for governments and enterprises to mitigate social risks. As a result, this has led to the rapid rise of so-called social bonds beginning in 2020.How can Phaeton ESG Bond benefit Investors?The corporate bond market is highly fragmented, illiquid, and opaque. Currently, only 26% of the $41 trillion US corporate bonds get traded electronically. Lack of standardisation and appropriate modern technology in these primary markets has a significant flow-on effect on secondary markets. For example, information asymmetry, inefficient pricing, expensive transactional costs, lengthy settlement times, and intensive administrative work hamper efficiencies and accelerate costs in secondary markets.There are several reasons why Phaeton blockchain technology significantly improves the traditional Bond Marketplace. Phaeton Blockchain bonds are more efficient: The blockchain bond issuing process is simpler and efficient. Consequently, when bonds are moved into the secondary market, the process is far simpler, allowing investors to buy and sell their "bond tokens" directly, like bitcoin and other digital assets. Phaeton Blockchain bonds are more transparent: All the requisite information on issued bonds is stored on its Blockchain, bringing transparency to an otherwise closed system. This newfound transparency also improves bond ratings, which have been criticised for having a closed system. Phaeton Blockchain bonds are more trusted: The unique advantage delivered by Blockchain is complete transparency and immutability of transactions, thereby offering a higher level of trust. In addition, with Phaeton's own distributed ledger technology (DLT), all data is available to all parties and is duplicated across a network of their Blockchain linked computers. Phaeton Blockchain cuts out the middlemen: Its Blockchain establishes a trustless synergy between stakeholders, which effectively eliminates intermediaries. In addition, Phaeton's smart contract includes all the necessary information whereby businesses can streamline their related processes, making the complex trading procedure less time-consuming, cost-efficient, and risk-free. Bond Size and Liquidity: The high price for trading traditional bonds generally excludes smaller investors resulting in the lack of liquidity in the sector. Through Phaeton's tokenisation technology, bonds can be fractionalised into smaller increments, as low as $100.00. Thus, allowing smaller investors to participate, thereby increasing transactions and liquidity within secondary markets. Lower Issuing Cost: Phaeton's high-efficiency level helps cost reduction because of the decrease in the number of intermediaries involved in the bond process. Not only does it facilitate immediate distribution through smart contracts, but it also minimises reconciliation activities (e.g., cryptographic signatures remove the need for anti-fraud or error checks). Further, it delivers significant improvements in settlement times from the traditional 2–3 days settlement period to just seconds.The high cost of issuance prevents corporations from acquiring cost-efficient capital. Many intermediary parties make up today's bond market, including issuers, underwriters, transfer agents, payment agents, registration agents, broker-dealers/ investment banks, auditors, rating agencies etc. This traditionally bloated method of intermediaries adds a high cost to a bond issue. Phaeton's Blockchain removes their participation as they are no longer required under its proprietary Blockchain.Phaeton: Delivers 100% Green Infrastructure Phaeton blockchain has been developed to be significantly superior to other counterparts making it a truly web 3,0 protocol that has been designed for the future. Phaeton's ecosystem offering gives users access to a decentralised global market. Its unique system of Side Chains allows the development of independent dApps, facilitating customisation, infinite scalability, and a profound departure from high network fees, thereby providing multiple previously unavailable and highly sought-after benefits to users. Furthermore, Phaeton's protocol has been designed to make it highly cost-effective, high-speed, convenient, secure (military-grade encryption), and seamless for all stakeholders.Phaeton focuses on applying its technology to deliver a positive social impact. This core value is used for all projects undertaken by Phaeton. Projects must have a positive social impact. To this end, Phaeton's has created its Incubator Platform for Social Impact enterprises. In addition, Phaeton, under the motto of "Action Yields Results", has initiated several of its own branded projects. Team Phaeton is, for example, working on affordable housing, renewable energy, carbon credits, health and wellness, education, social infrastructure, and sustainable agriculture. These are, of course, being built on Phaeton's own 100% green infrastructure.Phaeton's Green infrastructure: designed to back products built on its own Blockchain.The first round of IEO is still running! Grab some PHAE nowP2pb2b: https://p2pb2b.io/token-sale/302/Latoken: https://latoken.com/ieo/PHAETo learn more about Phaeton, visit Phaeton.io.Social Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhaetonOfficialFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/phaeton.io/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phaetontechnology/Telegram: http://bit.ly/Phaeton_telegramMedium: http://medium.com/@phaeton-technologyLinkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/phaeton-technologyDiscord: https://discordapp.com/invite/F44YbhjYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLIYg824KeHUmUtDBqRundgMedia ContactCompany: Phaeton PTY LTDContact: Chai ShepherdEmail: media@phaeton.ioWebsite: https://Phaeton.ioSOURCE: Phaeton Copyright 2021 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. (via SEAPRWire)

MHI to Issue the Second Series MHI Green Bond

TOKYO, Aug 2, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) today submitted a revised shelf registration statement to the Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau in preparation for its planned issuance of a corporate green bond in the Japanese market. This will be the Company's second issuance of this kind, following issuance of the heavy industry sector's first green bond in 2020.In 2020, MHI identified five components of "materiality": topics which the Company should address with high priority in order to help solve major social issues and simultaneously enable its sustained growth long into the future. Among the five topics is to "provide energy solutions to enable a carbon neutral world." In its "2021 Medium-Term Business Plan," which covers the three years starting FY2021, this materiality issue has been reflected by designating "Energy Transition" solutions as a central growth engine, committing the Company to focus investments into products and services that will contribute to decarbonization in power generation and other fields.Through issuance of green bonds, MHI Group will diversify its means of procuring funds as it also pursues achievement of the Energy Transition, toward realizing a carbon neutral world by 2050. Copyright 2021 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. (via SEAPRWire)

MHI to Issue First Green Bond

TOKYO, Oct 30, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) today submitted a revised shelf registration statement to the Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau in preparation for its planned issuance of a corporate green bond(1) in the Japan market. The move represents the Company's first issuance of this kind.MHI Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Hisato Kozawa described the significance of the Company's first green bond issuance as follows: "Since its founding, MHI has contributed to progress in society with myriad products and technologies. The funds raised by issuing this green bond will be used to address environmental issues and thereby facilitate achievement of a decarbonized society, and we believe we can contribute to that society by providing a well-balanced energy infrastructure. In this way, the green bond issuance will help resolve energy issues as a means of achieving decarbonization, a cornerstone of our materiality initiatives."1. Objectives and BackgroundMHI contributes to the resolution of global issues through worldwide provision of products and technologies that support infrastructure, both improving people's lives and driving industry forward. Through our business operations we contribute to progress in the world as a company engaged in "monozukuri" -- the traditional Japanese concept of craftsmanship -- based on our corporate philosophy set out in "Our Principles."MHI Group is proactively addressing environmental concerns through its support of the "Declaration on Challenge Zero." Challenge Zero (Challenge Net Zero Carbon Innovation) is a new initiative under which Japanese companies and organizations will promote and support worldwide innovative actions taken to achieve a decarbonized world -- the long-term goal of the Paris Agreement, the international framework focused on addressing climate change.As a measure to enable decarbonized world, MHI Group will bring environmentally improving effect by driving renewable energy/clean energy business (wind power equipment/business, hydrogen power equipment/business, and geothermal power equipment/business), which are the usage purpose set for this fund issuance. Eventually, we aim to contribute to achieving "ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all", which is the 7th Sustainable Development Goal defined by the United Nation.2. Outline of the IssuanceBond name: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. 36th Unsecured Corporate Bond (with Inter-bond pari passu clause)(MHI Green Bond)Maturity: To be determinedIssuance amount: To be determinedIssuance time: To be determinedUse of proceeds: New or existing businesses or projects relating to renewable energy or clean energy (wind, hydrogen and geothermal power systems)Lead-managing underwriters: Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd.; SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.; Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.; Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.; Daiwa Securities Co., Ltd.; Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd.(2)Green bond structuring agent(3): Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd.3. Preparation of Green Bond Framework and Acquisition of Second Party OpinionIn preparation for issuance of its green bond, MHI Group has compiled the "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Green Bond Framework" recording its intentions regarding the four elements stipulated in the Green Bond Guidelines of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA): 1) use of proceeds; 2) process for project evaluation and selection; 3) management of proceeds; and 4) reporting.With respect to evaluation of the green bond's suitability, the Company has received a second party opinion (SPO) from Sustainalytics, a third-party institution, attesting to the bond's conformity with ICMA's "Green Bond Principles 2018" and the "Green Bond Guidelines" (2020 edition) issued by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.4. Outline of Green ProjectsMHI Group's operations in wind power systems trace back to 1982 when the Company delivered its first commercial unit in Japan. Since then, we have supplied a total of more than 4,200 wind turbines (approx. 4.4 gigawatts) worldwide. In 2014 we established a joint venture with Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Vestas) of Denmark dedicated to business in offshore wind power systems. Known as MHI Vestas Offshore Wind A/S (MVOW), the JV has grown into a top global player in the area of wind systems. On October 29, 2020, MHI made an agreement with Vestas to transfer its shares in MVOW to Vestas and to acquire a 2.5% shareholding in Vestas, in order to strengthen competitiveness in this field by unifying development and manufacturing, including onshore wind systems, under Vestas. The agreement also strengthens MHI Group's partnership with Vestas in wind power systems, for example by MHI occupying one seat on the Vestas board. In addition, in July 2020, with an eye on the overall offshore wind systems value chain, we established a JV with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners P/S (CIP), also of Denmark, to develop an offshore wind power project in Hokkaido. In partnership with CIP, MHI is now entering the domestic market for offshore wind power systems.MHI Group has a robust track record in the manufacture and delivery of diverse products related to hydrogen, including hydrogen production systems and rocket engines that use hydrogen as a liquid fuel. We also have abundant experience in the use of hydrogen to generate electricity: specifically, a history of using hydrogen-containing by-product gas spanning some 50 years, back to the 1970s. In the area of large-scale gas turbines, we have achieved 30vol% hydrogen mixed combustion technology, enabled mainly through development of proprietary combustion chamber technology. In addition, MHI Group is participating in a feasibility study for a project targeting transition to 100% hydrogen firing by 2025 at part (440 megawatts) of a natural-gas-fired GTCC (gas turbine combined cycle) power plant in the Netherlands. Plans call for nearly a complete reduction of the plant's current CO2 emissions (approx. 1.3 million tons per year).MHI Group has continuously worked over many years to develop new geothermal power technologies. For example, we were first in the world to apply "two-phase flow and transport" in combination with a "double-flash" system, which today is a global standard in geothermal power plants. Our geothermal plants, which are based on the results of research accumulated over many years, today demonstrate their high performance and high operating rates worldwide. As an example, the Los Azufres III geothermal plant inaugurated in Mexico in 2015 achieved an operating rate of 99.6% within one year of start-up. MHI Group boasts an abundance of knowledge, experience and technologies in geothermal power systems, and today we rank first in the world in number of total deliveries. Going forward, we will continue to provide superlative geothermal technologies that enable stable supplies of electric power.(1) An unsecured straight bond issued only to finance green projects: i.e. projects that will result in environmental improvement. The first bond designated as a "green bond" was issued in 2008 by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), a member of World Bank Group. The scale of the green bond market has subsequently expanded in response to rising attention focused on the environment and such bonds' potential to contribute to initiatives in environmental areas.(2) Effective November 1, 2020, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities will change its trade name to BofA Securities, Inc.(3) A green bond structuring agent supports the issuance of a green bond largely by advising the issuer on how to prepare a green bond framework and how to obtain an SPO. Copyright 2020 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. www.jcnnewswire.com