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  • BAML tops green bond underwriter's league table, but Chinese banks storm top five

    11 April 2016

    Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) regained its title as the leading underwriter in the green bond market in the first quarter of 2016, although Chinese underwriters are now breathing down its neck.

  • Green bond market sees third 10-year dollar issue of 2016

    07 April 2016

    A $1.5 billion green bond issued by the European Investment Bank (EIB) has made it the third issuer this year to tap the market with a 10-year, dollar-denominated issue.

  • NWB Bank prices $1bn, 10-year green bond

    21 March 2016

    Dutch public sector lender Nederlandse WaterschapsBank (NWB) has returned to the green bond market, after pricing its first dollar-denominated transaction.

  • NRW upsizes sustainability bond to €1.6bn

    10 March 2016

    The German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has upsized its second sustainability bond to €1.585 billion ($1.75 billion), on the back of investor demand.

  • Hyundai launches dollar-denominated green bond

    08 March 2016

    South Korean car giant Hyundai has launched a 'use of proceeds' green bond to finance low-carbon vehicles.

  • Are investors beginning to pay up for green bonds?

    26 February 2016

    Are the occasional pieces of evidence that green bonds price differently to their mainstream equivalents a sign of things to come, asks Hamza Ali

  • Green Bond comment - February

    24 February 2016

    Could Apple's $1.5bn green bond be a game changer for corporate issuance?

  • Apple's green bond triggers spate of enquiries from other corporates, says BAML

    24 February 2016

    Apple's green bond has prompted a flurry of enquiries from other corporate bond issuers interested in the market's potential, according to a leading underwriter.

  • Apple takes $1.5bn bite out of green bond market

    17 February 2016

    Corporate giant Apple has priced a benchmark-sized green bond, in a "tremendous boost" to the fledgling market's prospects for attracting corporate issuers.

  • Kommuninvest says planned green bond will be 'first of many'

    12 February 2016

    Swedish public sector lender Kommuninvest hopes to follow its planned inaugural green bond with a second this year, as it continues to build up its green loan book.