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  • European banks focus on green tagging to drive energy efficiency

    15 December 2017

    Green tagging is emerging as a key strategy for leading European banks looking to scale up financing of energy-efficient real estate, a report has found.

  • JP Morgan is top green bond underwriter in Q3, with a string of EM deals

    13 October 2017

    JP Morgan seized the bragging rights to the green bond underwriting market in the third quarter of 2017, helped by a series of benchmark-sized issues in emerging markets.

  • Green bond round-up, 20 September 2017

    20 September 2017

    Mexico City Airport Trust has returned to the green bond market with the biggest corporate issue to date – a two-tranche $4 billion bond – to finance what it claims will be the world's most sustainable airport.

  • SSE to price inaugural green bond

    30 August 2017

    Scottish energy company SSE, formerly known as Scottish and Southern Energy, is marketing its first green bond, hoping to raise €500 million ($600m).

  • Spain's BBVA agrees green loan for Uruguay transmission project

    18 July 2017

    Spanish bank BBVA has agreed to provide a $25 million 'green loan' to Italian energy company Terna to help it connect renewable energy projects in Uruguay to the national grid.

  • Time the green bond market grew up

    05 June 2017

    The exclusion of Repsol's bond from the main green bond indexes highlights that a lack of a clear definition of what is green is hindering the market, argues Keith Mullin.

  • Repsol's green bond: exploring the controversy

    19 May 2017

    Spanish oil & gas company Repsol issued a controversial green bond that immediately raised concerns, mainly because it represents more investment in production that results in more carbon emissions, even if more efficiently. Marcio Viegas assesses the controversy

  • Spanish oil company issues controversial green bond

    10 May 2017

    Spanish oil company Repsol has issued a controversial €500 million ($543 million) green bond that will be partly used to fund energy efficiency projects in its oil and chemical refineries.

  • BBVA makes second green loan to Acciona

    25 April 2017

    BBVA has signed a $100 million green-labelled loan agreement with Acciona to partially fund solar and wind projects in Chile

  • Green bond roundup - 29 March 2017

    29 March 2017

    The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has issued a AUD650 million ($495 million) green bond, its inaugural offering.