Archive

  • Sustainable banking principles to be launched in November

    01 June 2018

    Banks from five different continents have joined forces to redefine the sector's purpose, in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement.

  • Generali links credit facilities with ESG factors

    25 May 2018

    Generali has introduced environmental, social and governance (ESG) features into its revolving credit facilities, in the latest example of these so-called non-financial factors being incorporated into loans.

  • Green bond round-up, 9 May

    09 May 2018

    BBVA has tapped the green bond market with the largest ever green bond issue by a Eurozone financial institution.

  • TCFD guidance for banks launched

    26 April 2018

    Guidance was today launched to help banks assess and report the 'transition risks' in their loan books, as recommended by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

  • Green bond round-up, 25 April

    25 April 2018

    More than $3.3 billion of green bonds have settled in the first three days of this week*, with announcements suggesting that a strong pipeline of issuance of green and social bonds can be expected in coming weeks.

  • HSBC is latest bank to withdraw from coal and tar sands

    20 April 2018

    HSBC pledged to stop lending to most coal-fired power stations and to stop financing oil from tar sands, but "missed the chance to join the green banking leaders", according to one NGO.

  • BBVA pledges €100bn of green finance, including sustainability bonds

    01 March 2018

    BBVA has pledged to mobilise €100 billion ($121.7 billion) in green finance by 2025, in a move that would also see the Spanish bank issue its own sustainability bonds.

  • Mapfre eyes sustainability goals to improve loan terms

    26 February 2018

    Spanish insurer Mapfre has converted a €1billion ($1.2 billion) syndicated credit line into a loan whose terms depend on the company's sustainability performance.

  • 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.