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L&G: 'Quirky' debt-for-nature swaps becoming 'more digestible' for investors

Institutional investors are increasingly able to incorporate unusually structured debt-for-nature swaps into their debt allocation, but Legal & General (L&G) said further simplification and reporting improvements are needed as the market scales.

ING: SLB market 'reinvigoration' awaits after initial 'exuberance' evaporates

The contrasting experience of the sustainability-linked loan and bond issuance continued in 2024, but ING said more quality data and "realistic" target approaches should see loan market continue to grow and bonds to finally begin to reverse declines.

First EU green bond of 2025 attracts €69bn orderbook

'SLB issuers should use SBTi-validated targets', says LuxSE

Sustainability-linked bond (SLB) issuers have been encouraged by Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) to use science-based targets to enhance the "credibility" of the issuances, ...

Sustainable debt round-up: KfW, CADES, Singtel ... and more

SLBs: 'Flight to quality' amid complexity challenge could be a positive

The underappreciated complexity of the sustainability-linked bond (SLB) has played a major role in the issuance decline in recent years, but...

ING: CSRD struggles feeding 'exceptionally high' sleeping SLL activity

ING saw an "exceptionally high" number of 'sleeping' sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) in 2024, as corporates struggled to deal with the forthcoming EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requirements.

'Sovereigns should use ASCOR for SLBs'

The assessment framework could help bring credibility to the nascent market. Ahren Lester reports

'Big four' SPO providers becomes 'big five' in 2024

Japan-focused Rating and Investment Information (R&I) secured more than a 10% share of the sustainable finance second-party opinion market in 2024, joining the global 'big four' US providers led by Sustainalytics and S&P Global.

South Korea readies sovereign green bond market return in 2026

South Korea is planning to issue a green bond in 2026 following investor engagement, according to a senior government official - five years after the sovereign was last active in the market.