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Aegon AM 'hesitant' to endorse sovereign SLBs

Aegon Asset Management is "hesitant" to give a blanket endorsement to sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs), an Environmental Finance conference heard, alongside fears issuers may underestimate the work required.

People Moves, 14 February: BlackRock; HSBC; Colesco Capital; Bloomberg ... and more

People Moves, 17 January: Mark Carney; Barclays; Regeneration.VC; Terra Impact Ventures ... and more

SWEN leads £31m funding round in UK green hydrogen business

Barclays begins stress-testing for nature

Barclays has begun piloting nature stress testing as part of a drive to better understand its environmental risks.

People moves, 15 November: BlackRock, Barclays, South Pole, WHEB ... and more

Barclays: Focused supply chain initiatives could become 'more common' in sustainable bonds

Barclays said targeted Scope 3 supply chain emissions initiatives are becoming a key focus for large corporates, and could become "more frequent" in sustainable bond use-of-proceeds as they become more common and mature.

Barclays: 'Surprising' rise in principal repayment penalty SLBs

There has been a "surprising" increase in the use of penalties applied to the principal repayment at maturity for sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs), according to Barclays - a move that it said could make the struggling instrument "less appealing" to investors.

Barclays: Jury still out on El Salvador's $1bn debt-for-nature swap

"Additional scrutiny" of the quality of El Salvador's $1 billion debt-for-nature swap is "warranted", Barclays has said.

Barclays calls on UK to focus on three transition finance areas

Barclays has highlighted three priorities in transition finance for the UK government that will support global decarbonisation efforts and UK climate and economic goals.