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  • 'Pure-play taskforce' launched for green, social loan market

    04 July 2025

    Influential loan market trade associations have convened a 'pure-play taskforce' to develop guidance on how 'green'- and 'social'-focused companies can access the existing labelled sustainable loan market.

  • Nuveen: PG&E credit upgrade 'not possible' without wildfire recovery bonds

    02 April 2025

    The projects financed by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) through its Wildfire Recovery Bonds were "critical" to the recent credit rating upgrade for the US utility firm, according to Nuveen.

  • Trade associations launch 'refreshed' sustainable loan principles

    26 March 2025

    Influential loan market associations have published an updated set of the widely used sustainable loan principles, with the most substantial changes made to the Sustainability Linked Loan Principles (SLLP).

  • $500m CCMM bond marks 'new era for climate finance'

    15 January 2025

    The Climate Investment Funds Capital Markets Mechanism (CCMM) has issued a $500 million bond, in a deal hailed as the dawn of "a new era in climate finance".

  • 'Unlikely' potential Transition Loan Principles will launch in 2024

    13 September 2024

    The expert taskforce brought together by influential trade associations to look into developing ground-breaking Transition Loan Principles (TLP) is unlikely to publish any guidance before next year.

  • US exodus of CA100+ continues as politicians say it could violate antitrust laws

    07 August 2024

    More US asset managers have departed Climate Action 100+ (CA100+), as Republican politicians wrote to more than 100 investors asking them how they would pressure companies to decarbonise and suggested that signatories could have breached US antitrust law.

  • Ground-breaking 'Transition Loan Principles' expected by November

    03 July 2024

    With formal principles on the horizon, the 'transition loan' market could be on the cusp of a new era - a dramatic step-change that could extend into the bond market. Ahren Lester reports

  • Loan round-up: CALC, Aguas Pacifico, NYK Line ... and more

    01 February 2024
  • Loan round-up: Thai Union, Pacific Basin Shipping, AET...and more

    07 December 2023
  • External reviews are the 'main sticking point' for sustainable loan deals

    30 October 2023

    Updated guidance on external reviews is being readied, the Loan Market Association's Gemma Lawrence-Pardew tells Ahren Lester