Q2 AMER/EMEA Sustainable Debt Outlook: Data Centers Emerge as Key Market Focus
Join us for our Q2 sustainable debt outlook webinar, where we examine key global issuance trends and recent developments in sustainable debt markets, including how the labeled debt market is evolving to support data center expansion. We will also discuss other innovations aiming to expand the scope of sustainable debt markets, including transition-labeled debt and sustainability-linked instruments from governmental issuers.
Discussion topics include:
- What are the key factors that drove sustainable debt issuance in the first quarter of 2026?
- How are labeled bonds financing data center expansion amid rising focus on energy and water usage?
- Which market innovations will support issuance throughout the remainder of the year?
Speakers
Swami Venkataraman, CFA
Associate Managing Director, Sustainable Finance, Global Head of Assessments
Moody's Ratings
Cambyse Parsi
Director, Sustainable Finance
Scotiabank
Celia Price
Director, Head of Sustainable Finance Solutions EMEA, Primary Debt Markets
Mizuho
Matt Kuchtyak
Senior Vice President - Sustainable Finance, Head of Assessments, Americas
Moody's Ratings
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Swami Venkataraman, CFA, is an Associate Managing Director in the Sustainable Finance group at Moody's Ratings. He manages a global team of analysts responsible for producing assessments and thematic research on the credentials of sustainability debt instruments and financing frameworks (Second Party Opinions) and the strength of entities carbon transition plans (Net Zero Assessments). He also leads related outreach efforts for Moody's with regulators, standard setters, investors, corporates and other market participants.
Swami regularly participates in high-profile working groups, conferences and media engagements. He is a member of the International Energy Agency's Finance Industry Advisory Board, the Institute for International Finance's (IIF) Sustainable Finance Working Group, the Executive Committee of the ESG Integrated Disclosure Project (IDP) for private capital markets and manages key external relationships for Moody's such as the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and Ceres. He has presented on climate finance topics at the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) and at various initiatives of the World Bank.
Prior to this role, Swami led the team responsible for the systematic integration of ESG considerations - including climate - into all Moody's credit ratings and the launch of the Moody's Issuer Profile Scores (IPS) and Credit Impact Scores (CIS). Earlier, he was a Senior Vice President in the North American utilities and infrastructure team, with rating committee chair responsibilities. Before Joining Moody's in 2013, Swami was a Director of Project and Export finance with Standard Chartered bank in Asia. He has broad credit and banking expertise in power, clean energy, infrastructure and sustainable finance for over 25 years. He has worked in New York, San Francisco, London, Mumbai and Mexico City.
Swami is a CFA charter holder, with a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and an M.B.A. in Finance and Information systems from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM),Calcutta.
Cambyse leads Scotiabank’s Sustainable Finance efforts in the U.S., advising and providing solutions to clients on sustainability-related products and services.
He has over 15 years of experience across banking, capital markets, impact investing and sustainable finance. While he has spent most of his career in the banking sector, he has worked with a number of impact investing organizations including Developing World Markets, B Lab and BlocPower.
Cambyse has a Bachelor of Engineering from McGill University and an MBA in Finance and Social Enterprise from Columbia Business School.
Matt Kuchtyakis Senior Vice President –Sustainable Finance for Moody’s Ratings. In this capacity, Matt heads the Sustainable Finance Assessments team in the Americas, leading a team of analysts primarily responsible for the publication of Second Party Opinions (SPOs) –which provide an opinion on the overall sustainability quality of financial instruments or financing frameworks –and Net Zero Assessments (NZAs) –which provide an independent and comparable view on the strength of an entity’s carbon emissions reduction plans compared to a global net zero pathway.
In his role, Matt is also responsible for the origination and publication of thematic research related to the global sustainable finance markets. He also leads outreach and engagement on sustainable finance issues, cultivating relationships with investors, intermediaries, issuers and other market participants. He frequently participates in high-profile outreach including investor briefings, webinars, third-party conferences and media engagements. Matt also represents
Moody’s Ratings on a variety of industry initiatives, such as the International Capital Market Association’s sustainable finance working groups.
Before his current role, Matt was an analyst on the ESG team at Moody’s Ratings, where he advanced the rating agency’s efforts to incorporate ESG considerations systematically and transparently into its credit ratings. He was a key contributor to the development of the cross-sector ESG methodology, launch of the ESG Issuer Profile Scores and Credit Impact Scores and the development of the Carbon Transition Assessments. He was also the lead analyst for the Moody’s Ratings Green Bond Assessments. Previously, Matt was a credit analyst in the US Public Finance Group, where he served as a lead analyst for a diverse portfolio of hospitals, public and private universities and other not-for-profits.
Matt holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science summa cum laude from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa