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  • Orange bonds receive green light in Asia

    09 July 2025

    Gender equality-focused sustainable bonds secured strong endorsement from a wide range of market participants in Asia as recognition of their key climate transition role matures. Ahren Lester writes

  • Dozens of financial institutions urge EU against weakening sustainability rules

    01 July 2025
  • Manulife: 'We are watching the interesting SLLB instrument closely'

    30 June 2025

    The nascent Sustainability-Linked Loan Bond (SLLB) market is being watched closely by Manulife Investment Management (Manulife IM) as an "interesting" way to accelerate sustainable lending...

  • Sustainable finance rules 'fully consistent with' €800bn defence push, EU says

    18 June 2025

    The EU's sustainable finance rulebook "is fully consistent with" a push to invest €800 billion ($920 billion) in defence, the European Commission said as it suggested it was ready to change sustainable investment disclosure rules to support its objectives.

  • Australian financial institutions to pilot sustainable finance taxonomy

    17 June 2025

    The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) has published the Australian sustainable finance taxonomy covering "green and transition" activities - including those in minerals, mining and metals - which will now be tested by some of the country's largest financial institutions.

  • Allianz, Zurich and CDPQ sign up to ambitious blended finance investment project

    02 June 2025

    From Peter Cripps in Hamburg

  • Use Omnibus as opportunity to simplify SFDR, financial institutions tell EU

    29 May 2025

    Allianz is among several financial groups to call for the EU to use its Omnibus process to 'streamline' the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), including by removing some principal adverse impact (PAI) disclosures.

  • French asset owners launch search for private markets biodiversity fund manager

    19 March 2025

    A group of French asset owners has launched a process to select the manager of a €150 million ($160 million) private markets biodiversity fund.

  • Sustainable Debt EMEA: early bird ends today

    28 February 2025

    The early bird rate for Environmental Finance's annual Sustainable Debt EMEA conference ends today, so register now to save 20%.

  • 'DFIs in a race to the bottom on pricing in EMs', warns Allianz GI

    11 February 2025

    DFIs and MDBs sometimes under-price their emerging market investments, which can drive away the private sector, Allianz Global Investors has claimed.