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Eskhata Bank secures first green bond in Tajikistan
19 February 2024Eskhata Bank has raised the equivalent of $10 million in local currency from its debut green bond, which is the first sustainable bond issued in Tajikistan.
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Emerging markets to increasingly tap sustainable bond market in 2024, says S&P
16 February 2024Emerging markets could increasingly access the labelled bond market in 2024, S&P Global Ratings predicted, despite moderate growth being forecast for the market as a whole.
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Goldman Sachs launches €10m green bond ETF
16 February 2024Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has launched its first dedicated green bond exchange traded-fund (ETF), adding the first passively managed product to its green bond fund range.
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'Reasonable' greenium for landmark Japan transition bond
15 February 2024Japan's ground-breaking climate transition bond (CTB) secured a "reasonable" greenium, and it is preparing to return to the market at the end of March with a two-year bond to complement the existing five-year deal.
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Bond round-up: Dow, Snam, Hong Kong and ... more
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'Milestone' Japanese transition bond three-times oversubscribed
14 February 2024Japan has raised JPY800 billion ($5.3 billion) from its debut 'climate transition' bond (CTB), with the ground-breaking deal almost three-times oversubscribed.
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AXA launches carbon transition bond fund with £127m from Aon
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Domestic Chinese sustainability-linked bond market 'lacking credibility'
14 February 2024Chinese onshore sustainability-linked bond (SLB) issuance fell in 2023 after a record 2022 as issuers were "less incentivised" to offer material and credible structures for investors, according to Sustainable Fitch.
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Green bond investors eschew EDF 'nuclear' green bond
14 February 2024Dedicated green bond investors largely avoided the ground-breaking 'nuclear' green bond from French energy firm EDF, according to Barclays - but there was "good demand" from sustainable investors more widely.
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Snam steps away from transition bonds with green, SLB deal
13 February 2024Snam has raised €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) from a dual-tranche green and sustainability-linked bond, as the Italian energy infrastructure firm stepped back from the 'transition' bond label it helped pioneer.