Socium

Sustainability - sustainable finance - pricing - social bonds.

Socium is a compound of "social premium".

In this context, socium means the saving an issuer can enjoy on its cost of borrowing, because it is issuing a social bond - or other social instrument - rather than a conventional instrument.

The socium is the amount by which the yield on the social instrument is lower, compared with the conventional instrument.

See also

• Bond
• Greenium
• Issuer
• Premium
• Return
• Risk premium
• Social bond
• Yield curve