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  • Artesian: 'Really targeting' potential blue bonds issuers

    04 December 2024

    Alternative investment manager Artesian is "really targeting" blue bonds in the Australian sustainable bond market, but acknowledges that the market opportunity is still small.

  • ADB and XacBank sign $50m financing deal

    04 December 2024
  • Australia invests in HSBC, Temasek-led blended finance fund

    03 December 2024
  • Japan targets SLL market integrity concerns in latest sustainable finance updates

    03 December 2024

    The Japanese government has updated its green and sustainability-linked bond and loan guidance to better reflect the updated international market principles and try and address two "major concerns" around the sustainability-linked loan (SLL) market in the country.

  • India sovereign green bond demand weak amid 'greenium' push

    02 December 2024

    India rejected the majority of the bids for its latest sovereign green bond deal after investors resisted accepting a 'greenium' on the issuance.

  • Expansion of the Common Ground Taxonomy needed, says Carbon Trust

    29 November 2024

    Further expansion of the Common Ground Taxonomy into southeast Asia is needed to scale up transition finance, The Carbon Trust has said, calling for more sustainability-linked financial instruments.

  • BNP Paribas: We need more Asian banks to issue transition bonds

    28 November 2024

    The market needs more Asian banks to issue transition bonds, to both test investor confidence in the instrument as well as help rapidly scale access to transition finance in hard-to-abate sectors, according to BNP Paribas.

  • Japan expects a 'circle of friends' to issue sovereign transition bonds soon

    27 November 2024

    The head of the Japanese debt agency hopes a "circle of friends" will issue sovereign transition bonds in the near future, amid "many enquiries" following its ground-breaking deal earlier this year.

  • Mirova to invest $10m in Indian clean energy

    27 November 2024
  • SLBs linked to donations or carbon credit investments are 'promising'

    25 November 2024

    Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) which use the financial penalties for missing targets to make donations or purchase carbon credits should be looked at more closely by the market,...