NEW YORK, Nov 10, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - The on-chain tokenized green bonds issued by Prontoblock will be one of the first such offerings in the United States. Moody's forecasts that the issuance of green bonds could total $1 trillion in 2022.New York, November 8, 2022 -- Prontoblock, an innovative blockchain and Web3 company, will partner with EPIC ESG to utilize smart contracts in the form of Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs), and introduce utility tokens to support the structure of on-chain green bonds for large-scale projects. Prontoblock will issue approximately $300 million in notional value in the form of on-chain green bonds to support EPIC ESG's take out needs for the company's clean energy projects. According to a 2022 report by McKinsey, capital spending on physical assets for energy and land-use systems required to decarbonize the global economy and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 are estimated to be $9.2 trillion annually, and $275 trillion in total.EPIC ESG's clean energy, carbon sequestration and disruptive agricultural solutions address pressing green energy challenges within the United States. To fund and manage these solutions, Prontoblock will launch a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), an emerging corporate model that democratizes and automates governance utilizing logic embedded within smart contracts, to secure financing, streamline operations and improve reporting. Powered by Prontoblock's platform, this partnership will generate highly secure tokenized green bonds to open up market access for a broad spectrum of investors with increased efficiencies, and fractionalized ownership. This will help increase liquidity and decrease the cost of capital for all participants. By issuing NFTs on a distributed ledger, the ownership rights of these green bonds will be easily traded on multiple centralized and decentralized crypto exchanges globally - delivering new and superior functionality with digital assets over traditional ones."We are very excited to be working with Prontoblock, given their capital markets and blockchain expertise, to advance our ESG initiatives," says Kyle Barnett, CSO of EPIC ESG. "This partnership will democratize retail access to bonds and accelerate the rollout of critically needed clean energy projects.""The opportunity for Prontoblock to support worthy projects in the ESG space is a deserving use case for our technology," says John Murphy, Co-founder and Chairman of Prontoblock. "The DAO and green bonds issued by our platform will significantly increase access to food supply, uninterrupted clean energy and the offsetting of carbon emissions. As the need for capital for climate-related investments in the coming decades will be immense, supporting EPIC ESG's endeavors is a moral imperative for Prontoblock."About ProntoblockProntoblock provides innovative solutions to financial intermediaries and everyday investors. Our products open up both traditional and digital asset markets and streamline investment instrument operations using DeFi protocols. The Prontoblock platform enables clients to issue tokenized assets, and provides seamless and user-friendly on-ramps and off-ramps to web3 architecture. It powers a smart-contract solution that fully automates due diligence, establishes reliable records of current stakeholders and compliance, and significantly improves efficiency by reducing administrative friction. For more information, visit www.prontoblock.com.About EPIC ESGEPIC ESG harnesses the collaborative power of visionary clean energy innovation, values-driven investment, and sustainable, socially responsible impact to create clean energy solutions that transform our health, our economies, our environment, our planet, and the future of our children, and our children's children - for good. For more information, visit https://epicesg.com.Media Contact:Alex GaultProntoblockalex@prontoblock.com415-830-6739www.prontoblock.com Copyright 2022 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. (via SEAPRWire)
TOKYO, Mar 4, 2022 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that the company will issue U.S. dollar-denominated Green Bonds totaling US$2.75 billion for its initiatives toward the realization of a society that aims for zero environmental impact. The proceeds from the issuance of the Green Bonds will be used exclusively toward environmental initiatives(1). This will be the first time for Honda Motor Co., Ltd. to issue Green Bonds.Since its founding in 1948, Honda has been conducting its corporate activities based on its original desire to "help people and society" and "expand people's life's potential." In light of changes happening to our society, Honda believes that working in pursuit of the "elimination of its environmental impact" and "realization of safety protecting precious human lives" are values Honda should provide in the future. Based on this belief, Honda has been working comprehensively to address challenges in the areas of the environment and safety. In the area of the environment, Honda is striving to realize carbon neutrality (net-zero CO2 emissions) for all products and corporate activities Honda is involved in by 2050.By allocating the proceeds from the issuance of the Green Bonds to eligible green projects including the development of zero-emission vehicles such as EVs and FCVs, Honda will further accelerate its initiatives toward the realization of a society that aims for zero environmental impact.(1) Projects that fit within the eligible Green Projects categories specified in the Honda Sustainable Finance Framework.(2) For the issuance of these Green Bonds, Honda has developed a Sustainable Finance Framework (the "Framework") and obtained a Second Party Opinion from Vigeo Eiris, an independent entity, that the Framework is aligned with the Green Bond Principles 2021 (the "GBP"), the Social Bond Principles 2021 (the "SBP"), and the Sustainability Bond Guidelines 2021 (the "SBG") as administered by the International Capital Market Association ("ICMA").- Honda Sustainable Finance Framework: URL:https://global.honda/investors/stock_bond/rating_bond.html- Second Party Opinion provided by Vigeo Eiris: URL:https://vigeo-eiris.com/spo_honda_sustainable_frameworkThis document does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. The securities described herein have not been approved or disapproved by any regulatory authority, nor has any such authority passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of the shelf registration statement, the base prospectus contained therein or the supplements to the base prospectus. Copyright 2022 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. (via SEAPRWire)
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)
HONG KONG, Nov 3, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - Zhonghua Gas Holdings Limited (the "Company"; Stock Code: 8246) together with its subsidiaries (collective namely the "Group") today announces that on 2 November 2020 (after trading hours), the Company entered into Subscription Agreement with the wholly-owned subsidiary of Kai Yuan Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 1215) ("the Subscriber"), pursuant to which the Company has conditionally agreed to issue and the Subscriber has conditionally agreed to subscribe for the three-year Convertible Bonds in the aggregate principal amount of HK$97,800,000. The initial conversion price is HK$0.27 each (subject to adjustments). As at the date of this announcement, the Company has a total of 3,622,136,000 Shares in issue. Assuming there is no further issue or repurchase of the Shares, based on the initial Conversion Price of HK$0.27 per Conversion Share and assuming full conversion of the Convertible Bonds took place, the Convertible Bonds will be convertible into 362,222,222 Conversion Shares, representing approximately 10.00% of the existing issued share capital of the Company as at the date of this announcement and approximately 9.09% of the issued share capital of the Company as enlarged by the issue of the Conversion Shares. The net proceeds are intended to be used for the enhancement of the existing business of the Group and working capital.The Board of Directors believes that through issuing a convertible bond, it presents an opportunity for the Group to strengthen its financial position while optimizing its investor base and capital base. It will also set a good foundation for further strategic alliance with the Subscriber. Thus, the Group is optimistic towards the prospects of the Group.Kai Yuan Holdings Limited is principally engaged in investment holding. One of its substantial shareholders is renowned Chinese entrepreneur Mr. Du Shuang Hua, who was ranked 65th in the Hurun Rich List of 2019. He has extensive businesses covering industries in steel manufacturing, logistics, banking and properties development in the PRC. The subsidiary companies of Kai Yuan are principally engaged in hotel operation and money lending business.Zhonghua Gas Holdings LimitedZhonghua Gas Holdings Limited is principally engaged in provision of diverse integrated new energy services including technological development, construction and consultancy services in relation to heat supply and coal-to-natural gas conversion, supply of liquefied natural gas, coupled with trading of new energy related industrial products. The Group is also engaged in the property investment business.Media Contacts:Angel YeungJovian Communications LtdTel: +852 2581 0168Email: news@joviancomm.com Copyright 2020 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. www.acnnewswire.com




