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  • ING issues $1.3bn 'well oversubscribed' green bond

    18 November 2015

    ING Bank has priced its inaugural $1.33 billion green bond, issued in two tranches that were both several times oversubscribed.

  • IFC to issue $500m green bond

    17 November 2015

    The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is set to return to the market with a $500 million green bond, its biggest of the year so far.

  • Yes Bank plans $500m London-listed green bond

    16 November 2015

    Yes Bank is planning to issue a green bond of up to $500 million that it will list on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) by December 2016.

  • EF BRIEFS: Moody's, S&P, Macquarie, UK SIF, Axa IM, TRIG, EDF, Apple

    13 November 2015

    Moody's has given its first public rating of a wind farm, in a move it says sets an important precedent for the emerging asset class.

  • Southern Power Co plans $750m green bond

    13 November 2015

    Southern Power Company is marketing a $750 million green bond, in a transaction set to make it the first US-based utility to tap the market.

  • HSBC pledges $1bn to green bond market

    12 November 2015

    HSBC has stepped up its commitment to the green bond market, pledging to buy $1 billion of notes.

  • EF BRIEFS: Aquila, Scatec Solar, Connecticut green bond

    11 November 2015

    Aquila Capital, an alternative investment specialist, has acquired Smakraft, the largest operator of small-scale hydro plants in Norway, for an undisclosed sum.

  • KfW completes its 2015 green bond programme with $1bn issue

    11 November 2015

    German development bank KfW has priced a $1 billion, five-year, green bond, making it the biggest issuer in the market this year.

  • IADB plans green bonds for energy efficiency projects in Latin America

    11 November 2015

    The $217 million allocated by the UN's Green Climate Fund (GCF) to green bonds for energy efficiency projects in Latin America, will contribute to two asset-backed securitisation programmes planned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).

  • TerraForm Power ups size of planned green bond to $250m

    10 November 2015

    Yieldco TerraForm Power (TERP) has increased the proposed size of a green bond it announced in July to $250 million, up from $200 million.