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  • Strong performance for green, social and sustainability bond funds in 2019

    16 March 2020

    After a torrid 2018 green, social and sustainability bond funds experienced a stronger performance in 2019, off the back of a rallying fixed income market. But performances were highly variable, reports Ahren Lester.

  • People Moves, 6 March: DG FISMA, ResponsAbility, Carbon4 Finance

    06 March 2020

  • Boom time for green bond funds

    04 March 2020

    Green bond funds reported sizeable assets growth in 2019, Ahren Lester explains, as the green bond market benefitted from rising market credibility and the arrival of ubiquitous corporate names.

  • Irish utility ESB signs €1.4bn sustainability linked loan

    02 March 2020

    Ireland's Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has signed a €1.4 billion ($1.6 billion) sustainability linked loan.

  • Best performing funds of 2019: BNP Paribas Aqua

    26 February 2020

    Growing pressure to regulate so-called 'forever chemicals' helped boost the performance of water testing companies in BNP Paribas' Aqua fund, Justin Winter tells Michael Hurley

  • JetBlue strikes aviation industry's first sustainability-linked loan

    25 February 2020

    US airliner JetBlue has signed a $550 million, sustainability-linked revolving credit facility with BNP Paribas - believes to be the first loan of its kind in the aviation industry.

  • Malaysian banks fund coal power projects at expense of renewables

    21 February 2020

    Malaysian banks continue to provide significant funding to coal power projects amid a rising number of international peers stepping back from such financing, according to a report by an Australian environmental pressure group.

  • HSBC named largest green, social and sustainability bond manager

    10 February 2020

    HSBC became the largest green, social and sustainability (GSS) bond market underwriter in 2019, in a year marked by rapidly accelerating diversification of the market.

  • Fitch Ratings: Investors' ESG focus increases corporate finance risk

    30 January 2020

    Investors' growing adoption of environmental, social and governance (ESG) could gradually increase funding costs for some companies, according to Fitch Ratings.

  • Asset managers launch search for biodiversity tool developer

    29 January 2020

    Four asset managers have opened a search for a partner to develop a tool to measure the impact of investments on biodiversity in order to raise awareness of the threat within the financial community.