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    ISS-Corporate Awarded “Best Second Party Opinion Provider” for 2026

    LONDON (June 18, 2026) – ISS-Corporate, a leading provider of robust SaaS and expert advisory services to companies globally, today announced that it was awarded “Best Second Party Opinion Provider” for FIG ESG Bonds in the 2026 GlobalCapital Bond Awards. The GlobalCapital Bond Awards recognize the top-performing issuers, investment banks, investors, rating agencies, law firms and advisers in the international bond market, as voted on by market participants. GlobalCapital, a London-based provider of insight and analysis to international capital markets, has put on the prize for almost two decades.

    “We are pleased to have been recognized by the market as the top Second Party Opinion provider for FIG ESG Bonds for the third year in a row,” said Reinhilde Weidacher, Head of Corporate Sustainability Services at ISS-Corporate. “This award reflects not only the hard work and expertise of our Sustainable Finance Research team but the rigor of the underlying methodology, which supports issuers in assessing their financing frameworks and gives investors visibility into projects’ alignment with best practices and standards.”

    ISS-Corporate’s Second Party Opinion (SPO) services provide corporate, governmental, and financial institution issuers with an independent assessment of their sustainable financing frameworks. To date, ISS-Corporate has issued more than 1,000 SPOs leveraging robust in-house research and data solutions. Over the past several years, ISS-Corporate has issued several milestone SPOs including:

      • The first EU Green Bond Standard pre-issuance external review for a financial institution, in 2025;
      • The first SPO on a green loan financing green steel production in 2024;
      • The first SPO for a Sustainability-Linked Loans financing Bond in 2022;
      • And, in 2020, the first SPO on a sustainability-linked transaction.

    To learn more about ISS-Corporate’s SPO offering and external review process, please click here.

    ISS-Corporate is a leading provider of robust SaaS and expert advisory services to companies, globally. ISS-Corporate’s data-driven, research-backed Compass platform empowers businesses to understand and shape the signals they send to institutional investors, regulators, lenders, and other key stakeholders. By delivering essential data, tools, and advisory services, ISS-Corporate can help businesses around the world to be more resilient, align with market demands, and proactively manage governance, compensation, sustainability, and cyber risk initiatives. ISS Corporate Solutions, Inc. (“ISS-Corporate”) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”) and part of the ISS STOXX GmbH group of companies. This document and all of the information contained in it, including without limitation all text, data, graphs, charts (collectively, the “Information”) is the property of ISS-Corporate or its affiliates. The Information may not be reproduced or disseminated in whole or in part without prior written permission of ISS-Corporate. ISS-Corporate MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION. ISS-Corporate provides advisory services, analytical tools and publications to companies to enable them to improve shareholder value and reduce risk through the adoption of improved corporate governance practices. The ISS STOXX Governance and Sustainability research teams, which are separate from ISS-Corporate, will not give preferential treatment to, and are under no obligation to support, any proxy proposal of a corporate issuer nor provide a favorable rating, assessment, and/or any other favorable results to a corporate issuer (whether or not that corporate issuer has purchased products or services from ISS-Corporate). No statement from an employee of ISS-Corporate should be construed as a guarantee that ISS STOXX will recommend that its clients vote in favor of any particular proxy proposal or provide a favorable rating, assessment or other favorable result. For more information, please visit https://www.iss-corporate.com

    ISS STOXX GmbH, through its group companies, is a leading provider of comprehensive and data-centric research and technology solutions that help capital market participants identify investment opportunities, detect qualitative and quantitative portfolio company risks, and meet evolving regulatory requirements. With roots dating back to 1985, we today deliver world-class benchmark and custom indices across asset classes and geographies and serve as a premier source of independent corporate governance, sustainability, cyber risk, and fund intelligence research, data, and related offerings. Our products and services give clients the scale and leverage they need to grow their business more effectively and efficiently. ISS STOXX, which is majority owned by Deutsche Börse Group, is comprised of more than 3,800 professionals operating across 30 global locations in 20 countries. Its approximately 5,500 clients include many of the world’s leading institutional investors who turn to ISS STOXX for its objective and varied offerings, as well as companies focused on ESG, cyber, and governance risk mitigation as a shareholder value enhancing measure. Clients rely on ISS STOXX’s expertise to help them make informed decisions to benefit their stakeholders.