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New to sustainable finance? Choose the starting point that fits what you need today.
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| Guide | What you'll take away | Useful for |
|---|---|---|
| Sustainable Finance in Malaysia | Understand the main labels and how funding can connect to environmental or social goals. | Business owners and teams new to the subject · Introduction |
| How to Choose a Financing Route | Shortlist routes based on your project, payment plan and available evidence. | SMEs, chief financial officers (CFOs) and project owners · Decision guide |
| Financing Readiness: Evidence and Application Checklist | Organise the records you have and identify what to ask for before an application. | SMEs, finance and sustainability teams · Checklist |
Choosing financing and preparing an application
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| Guide and short description | Your question | Audience · Type |
|---|---|---|
| How to Choose a Financing Route — Compare ways to fund your project, including ownership, payments and support. | Which route is worth discussing with a financier? | SMEs, CFOs, project owners · Decision guide |
| A Guide to Raising Finance for Sustainable Projects — Follow a project from the first brief through assessment, delivery and reporting. | What happens between having an idea and managing the financing? | First-time applicants, SMEs, project sponsors · Step-by-step guide |
| Financing Readiness: Evidence and Application Checklist — Bring business records, quotations and sustainability evidence into one preparation pack. | What should I gather before approaching a bank or arranger? | SMEs, finance and sustainability teams · Checklist |
| Sustainable Finance Product Innovation — See how different structures work, from equipment finance and service arrangements to trade and platform funding. | How would each arrangement work, and what would we commit to? | SMEs, CFOs, treasurers · Structures guide |
Loans and Islamic financing
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| Guide and short description | Your question | Audience · Type |
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| Green Loans in Malaysia — Understand project-purpose lending, the evidence to prepare and the full offer to compare, including Islamic financing questions. | What makes a loan green, and what should I check in an offer? | Businesses, SMEs, CFOs · Explainer |
| Sustainability-Linked Loans and Financing in Malaysia — Work through performance measures, targets, verification and the costs behind a conditional benefit. | Could financing tied to our business's performance fit our plans? | SMEs, CFOs, treasurers, sustainability teams · Explainer |
For the Islamic capital-market route, continue to the sukuk guides below.
Bonds and sukuk
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| Guide and short description | Your question | Audience · Type |
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| Green, Social and Sustainability Bonds — Compare project-purpose labels and the preparation, repayment and reporting work behind issuance. | Would raising money from investors suit our projects and team? | Prospective issuers, CFOs; investors · Explainer |
| Green and SRI Sukuk Explained — Understand Islamic capital-market financing, project-purpose and linked approaches, and the questions to take to an arranger. | How would green or SRI sukuk fund our project? | Business owners, finance teams, project sponsors · Explainer |
| Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) Sukuk Framework — Look more closely at project selection, tracking funds, disclosures and review differences between issuance routes. | What should we prepare with our advisers under this framework? | Prospective issuers, CFOs, advisers · Framework guide |
Incentives and SME support
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| Guide and short description | Your question | Audience · Type |
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| Sustainable Finance Incentives and SME Support — Distinguish financing, guarantees, reimbursement, tax incentives and co-investment, with timing and availability questions. | Which kind of support should we investigate before committing costs? | SMEs, CFOs, project sponsors · Support guide |
| Green Technology Financing Scheme (GTFS 5.0) — Understand the published guarantee summary and prepare company, project and application questions. | How might GTFS fit our financing, and what must we confirm? | Project owners, SMEs, CFOs · Scheme guide |
| SRI Sukuk and Bond Grant Scheme — Understand the published external-review cost support and the terms, timing and availability to confirm before claiming. | Could we receive support for the external-review costs of our issuance? | Issuers, CFOs, arrangers · Scheme guide |
Solar and other sustainable projects
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| Guide and short description | Your question | Audience · Type |
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| Renewable Energy and Solar Financing in Malaysia — Compare business rooftop-solar ownership and payment arrangements, how the electricity will be used or credited, and the evidence needed for a funding discussion. Includes shorter sections on other renewables and household solar. | Should we buy or finance the system, lease it or buy the electricity it generates—and what needs checking? | Businesses, SMEs; households for the home-solar section · Project guide |
For another project, begin with choosing a financing route and the financing-readiness checklist. Use them to frame the purpose, costs and evidence for your enquiry.
Reporting, standards and transition planning
ESG means environmental, social and governance. NSRF is Malaysia's National Sustainability Reporting Framework.
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| Guide and short description | Your question | Audience · Type |
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| Simplified ESG Disclosure Guide (SEDG) for SMEs — Start with a customer or bank request, gather supporting records and assign someone to collect each missing item. | Which sustainability information should our SME collect and share? | SME owners, finance and administration teams · Practical guide |
| ESG Disclosure, NSRF and Sustainability Reporting — Work through company reporting applicability, separate reporting and assurance calendars, and preparation responsibilities. | What applies to our company, and how do we organise the work? | CFOs, reporting and sustainability teams; SMEs handling requests · Reporting guide |
| Sustainable Finance Policies and Standards — Find the references relevant to your route and distinguish rules, voluntary standards and contract commitments. | Which framework should I read for this financing question? | Businesses, SMEs, finance and sustainability teams · Standards browsing guide |
| Banking, Tax and Project Rules — Identify the authority and timing checks around your site, equipment, tax route and financing. | What must we check before ordering, installing or claiming? | SME owners, CFOs, project owners · Practical checks |
| Transition Finance and Credible Transition Plans — Connect lower-emissions goals to actions, investment, milestones and evidence, including the long-term implications of equipment choices. | How can we explain and finance a credible transition? | Business owners, CFOs, operations and sustainability teams · Planning guide |
Institutions and market information
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| Guide and short description | Your question | Audience · Type |
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| Joint Committee on Climate Change (JC3) — Understand its role and which outputs can help you prepare for a financing conversation. | Why does JC3's work matter to our business and our bank? | Business owners, SMEs, finance and sustainability teams · Institution explainer |
| Malaysia Sustainable Finance: Market Data and Trends — Read a dated market snapshot with the definitions and limits attached to the figures. | What do the market numbers actually measure? | CFOs, sustainability teams; investors · Dated market briefing |
| FTSE4Good Bursa Malaysia Index — Understand selection, assessment and what index membership can and cannot tell you. | What does inclusion mean for our company or investment research? | Listed-company teams; investors and SME suppliers · Index explainer |
Cases and investment perspectives
Use these dated cases and investment explainers to learn from published examples without treating past transactions or historical material as current offers or guaranteed results.
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| PNB Merdeka Ventures Green Sukuk: What the Merdeka 118 Case Teaches — Distinguish the programme limit, issuance, allocation and reported results. | What can this green sukuk teach us about keeping evidence after issuance? | Issuers, property developers and investors · Historical case study |
| Integrating a Gender Lens in Sustainable Investing — Examine objectives, evidence, valuation and risks without treating a diversity measure as a performance guarantee. | What evidence should I examine when an investment makes gender-related claims? | Investors, fund managers and finance teams · Investment guide |
| Sustainable Bonds and Sukuk: International Case Studies — Compare historical issuer documents on project allocation, linked targets and reporting. | How do different structures change what an issuer must track and report? | Issuers, advisers and researchers · International case studies |
| Blue Finance: The Original Webinar and Practical Resources — Check a water or ocean project's purpose, safeguards, financing structure and evidence. | Could our project fit a blue-finance framework? | Businesses, finance teams and financial institutions · Event archive and explainer |
| Leadership in Action: Lessons from Four Sustainable Finance Cases — Compare four Malaysian company cases and the work behind their financing structures, allocation records, targets and reviews. | What can we learn from how these companies prepared and managed sustainable finance? | Finance, treasury and sustainability teams · Case-study review |