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  • IDBI launches inaugural benchmark-sized green bond

    23 November 2015

    The Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) has launched its inaugural green bond and the second from India to be denominated in dollars.

  • HSBC moves closer to issuing green bonds, as it drafts framework

    20 November 2015

    HSBC has created a green bond framework ahead of its much-anticipated move into the issuing space, after years as a key underwriter in the market.

  • NIB plans to issue around €700m of green bonds each year

    19 November 2015

    The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) plans to step up its green bond programme and is planning issues valued at the equivalent of around €700 million ($750 million) each year in coming years.

  • EF BRIEFS: SocGen, Barclays, Trina, Enel, GIB, Camco, Capital Stage, IIGCC, GE and Alstom

    18 November 2015

    Societe Generale has adopted a climate policy ahead of the Paris climate summit that will see it pull out of some coal financing and double financing for renewables by 2020.

  • 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.

  • Southern Power ups green bond to $1bn

    17 November 2015

    Southern Power has increased the size of its inaugural green bond to $1 billion after being nearly five-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.