Trading RCB bonds
The bonds are listed on the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) and admitted to trading on London Stock Exchange and its Order Book for Retail Bonds (“ORB”).
RCB bonds are available to private, professional and charity trust fund investors. For private investors they can be purchased through a regulated stockbroker or wealth manager. An RCB bond issuance could therefore reach thousands of individual investors, including a charity’s natural supporter base, or a company’s customers and staff.
RCB only arranges bonds for charities and organisations that can demonstrate a mission to deliver positive social or environmental impact. It also has a Sustainability Bond Framework which is aligned to Social and Green Bond principles, as confirmed in a second party opinion from Standard & Poor’s.
Professional investors
RCB offers a simple route to integrating social impact objectives into your portfolio using fixed-income bonds issued by a diverse range of charities and impact organisation. All RCB’s bonds are listed on the Official List of the FCA and tradeable on the London Stock Exchange (the “Stock Exchange”) and other venues. They have daily price visibility and committed market makers. RCB has a Sustainability Bond Framework aligned to ICMA’s Green and Social Bond principles, with a third-party opinion from S&P.
Charity trust fund investors
RCB has to date issued bonds for organisations delivering a range of services in care, supported housing, charitable giving and heritage, and can go wider still in supporting the delivery of public benefit. RCB’s bonds provide opportunities for charity trusts and foundations to align investments more closely to their charitable objectives. Each bond represents a loan to a specific borrower and can be integrated into investment policies recognising the potential of impact-led investments to deliver both financial and impact returns.
Private investors
For private investors, buying RCB bonds is a quick and simple way to make your money matter. As each bond funds a different organisation, you have choice as to where you want to direct your investment. By signing up to our website you will receive updates on the performance of the borrowers and notifications of new issues.
For borrowers
For borrowers, RCB offers the ability to raise unsecured finance from a large pool of supportive investors, motivated by the opportunity to accelerate your impact, improve lives and help us move to a greener economy in as fair and inclusive a way as possible. It provides an alternative to bank finance, offering medium term funding, competitive pricing, flexibility and a covenant-lite structure as standard.