Specific Standard Disclosures Key Fully disclosed Social Partially disclosed Not disclosed Product portfolio* Indicator requirement Status Con ■■ t New homes plan for over 400 homes in central Manchester: e Mosscare, operating primarily in the Moss Side area of Manchester FS8* xt and Appr was incorporated in 1968 and has been a client of Barclays since 1984. Monetary value of products and services designed to deliver a Barclays provides banking and treasury services and capital for specific environmental benefit for each business line broken down by purpose. o development and day-to-day operations. A recently completed Omissions ach funding transaction paves the way for their ongoing development Initiatives reported represent a selection of examples and programme for over 400 properties, an increase in homes of more exclude Barclays Africa Group Limited (BAGL). than 10%. The outline plan is for a mix of affordable rent and extra Please refer to 2016 BAGL Annual Report for details: care property and a learning disability project. barclaysafrica.com/barclaysafrica/Investor-Relations/ ■■ Longhurst Group owns and manages over 18,700 homes and Announcements-and-publications/Annual-and-interim-reports.. operates in more than 45 local authority areas across the Midlands Shar and East of England. We recently helped the group restructure an Corporate and Investment Bank ed Gr existing £23m facility which was due to expire in 2017 and also ■■ Debt Finance, including Infrastructure and Project Finance o provide additional funding of £27.0m including a £25.0m Revolving ■■ Debt and Equity Capital Markets wth Ambition Credit Facility (RCF). The RCF will give them certainty of funding for a ■■ Green Bonds further period of time and spread the re-finance risk out, as well as an ■■ IB Research additional £25m capital to assist their development programme. It will ■■ Trade Finance – Sustainable Shipment Letters of Credit provide the Homes and Community Agency (HCA) with comfort that Barclays UK Longhurst Group has certainty of funding and will mean they can ■■ Lending for high growth green enterprises continue to build around 500 new social housing properties in the ■■ Impact Investing Midlands area. Treasury ■■ £18.5m revolving credit facility for new-to-bank client, Birmingham ■■ Green Bond portfolio Gener Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, to support their working capital requirements and transition to Foundation Trust Barclays Corporate and Investment Bank al S status. Banks are uniquely positioned to facilitate the flow of capital towards tandar ■■ Barclays continues to be an innovator and active lender in the low and environmentally and socially beneficial activity. A range of business lines are d Disclosur moderate income housing finance space in the US. During 2016, actively involved in delivering solutions across product groups, geographies Barclays assisted the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency in and industry sectors. Barclays supports renewable energy sector coverage raising $118 million through a combination of publically offered debt offering strategic advice to and facilitating access to finance globally in es and a private bond sale. The transaction spanned both construction wind, solar, geothermal, waste and hydro. Financing includes project and permanent financings and included an interest rate hedge to help financing, loans and bonds, convertibles, IPOs, follow-ons and private further subsidize the borrowing cost for the client. The deal provided placements and is coupled with a leading M&A advisory practice. Specifically within Cleantech coverage, Barclays has executed projects in funding for the construction and rehabilitation of six multifamily rental the following sectors: advanced materials, energy efficiency, water, Specific S housing projects totalling 801 units of housing throughout the State. manufacturing, transportation and agriculture. 613 of the apartments are affordable housing units and the remaining 214 are age-restricted units. This financing served a vital role in See pages 8-9 for further information on financing activity in 2016 tandar assisting the State ensure the availability of clean and safe housing for including Green Bonds. low and moderate income families and moreover, provide greater d Disclosur support for an underserved population. The Corporate and Investment Bank also offers more specialist solutions, such as £2m in Asset Finance to Lookers to fund sustainable green ■■ Barclays served as bookrunning senior manager for a $600 million initiatives over a relatively short payback period. Lookers is a North West es refinancing bond issued by the City of Detroit. As a result of this based motor retail group with 150 dealerships throughout the UK. transaction, the City’s interest costs were reduced by over $60 million, Heating, power and energy requirements across its network are not only of which $25 million will be realized directly by City residents over the a financial drain but place a firm dent in its green credentials. The next five years in the form of reduced property taxes and the balance finance helped activate a five-year plan to install biomass heating and KP is expected to be applied toward the City’s revitalization initiatives over cooling systems across the group, and a standalone solar panel facility in MG Assur the next three years. Additionally, the transaction allowed the City to Northern Ireland. realize administrative and operational improvements by consolidating 35 prior series of bonds into the new series. The success of this Our Corporate Banking Trade and Working Capital team in Singapore ance S has been successful in the launch of the Sustainable Shipment LC, transaction was the direct result of close coordination between the ta designed to help clients in the soft commodities sector achieve their t City of Detroit, Michigan’s Department of Treasury and Barclays, and environmental goals by certifying that goods have been produced in a emen reflects the power of governmental cooperation to improve the lives of Detroit’s residents and support the City’s post-bankruptcy recovery. sustainable way. Since then, the Barclays Sustainable Shipment product t suite has expanded and now includes documentary collections as well Barclays also offers two investment products in the socially-responsible as Letters of Credit. Barclays Sustainable Shipment products show how investment space: the Women in Leadership Index and Exchange Traded trade finance can positively influence the environment. Using a simple Note (ETNs) and the Return on Disability ETN, both listed on the NYSE adaptation to existing products and protocols, this is an innovation Arca Exchange. The Women in Leadership ETN tracks the Barclays which avoids the need for complex and expensive systems changes Women in Leadership Total Return USD Index and is designed to provide making it easy for the market to adopt. investors with exposure to US companies with gender-diverse executive leadership and governance. The Return on Disability ETNs are linked to the performance of a US Large Cap index developed in conjunction with The Donovan Group LLC and is designed to provide investors with exposure to US-based companies that have acted to attract and serve people with disabilities as customers and employees. Note * Financial Services Sector Disclosures document home.barclays/annualreport Barclays PLC Environmental Social Governance Supplement 2016 • 46
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