Funding strategy

UPM has a strong cash flow and industry-leading balance sheet that mitigates risks and enables value-enhancing strategic actions. The group manages its financing activities, debt portfolio and financial resources via various policies that are designed to ensure optimum financing arrangements minimising simultaneously finacial exspences and refinancing risk and optimising liquidity.

UPM targets a net debt to EBITDA ratio of approximately 2 times or less.

Credit ratings

Moody's (changed 2 November 2017)	Baa2
Standard & Poor's (changed 24 July 2018)	BBB

Debt programmes and public bonds

UPM's short term funding consists of drawings under bank facilities and issuance under commercial paper programmes. For medium and long term funding UPM borrows from the bank market, insurance companies and the capital markets.

Debt programmes		Limit
Domestic Commercial Paper Programme		1,000 million

Outstanding bonds

Amount Million	Issued	Maturity	Coupon
USD 375	1997	2027	7,450% p.a.

Funding strategy

Credit ratings

Debt programmes and public bonds

​UPM's short term funding consists of drawings under bank facilities and issuance under commercial paper programmes. For medium and long term funding UPM borrows from the bank market, insurance companies and the capital markets.

Outstanding bonds

UPM's short term funding consists of drawings under bank facilities and issuance under commercial paper programmes. For medium and long term funding UPM borrows from the bank market, insurance companies and the capital markets.