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  • Bonds round-up: Sparebank, Brookfield, Kommuninvest, Kerala ... and more

    18 September 2019

    Sparebank issues €500m green bond

  • Citigroup, Shell and 3M removed from DJSI World

    16 September 2019

    S&P Dow Jones Indices (DJI) and RobecoSAM have reviewed the companies in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) World and removed Citigroup, Shell and 3M from it. Citigroup remains in the DJSI North America, however.

  • Bonds round-up: New York MTA, SNCF, Tideway, CalSTRS, Kenya, Colombia ... and more

    21 August 2019

    New York MTA returns with 11th green bond, SNCF Reseau goes long with 100-year green bond and more

  • ESG in Fixed Income Europe, featuring Green Bonds

    03 July 2019

    Nearly 400 delegates attended the conference, now in its ninth year`

  • 'Prepare for abrupt repricing’ of climate risks in sovereign bonds

    24 May 2019

    Climate risk is underestimated as a risk factor by investors in sovereign bonds, who should prepare for the possibility of “an eventual abrupt repricing of environmental risks, including climate risks”, according to the findings of a major study.

  • Regulatory ‘stick’ is driving credit rating agencies’ ESG efforts, says BlueBay

    08 February 2019

    The threat of regulation has driven a flurry of activity in recent months among major credit rating agencies (CRAs) S&P Global, Moody’s and Fitch as they look to better capture environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk factors in their ratings, according to BlueBay Asset Management.

  • Fitch reveals how ESG impacts ratings of 1,500 corporate issuers

    07 January 2019

    Fitch Ratings today published details of how environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors impact the credit rating decisions for more than 1,500 individual corporate issuers.

  • Green Bonds round-up, 28 November

    28 November 2018

    France's state-owned postal company La Poste saw its inaugural €500 million ($564 million) green bond attract orders amounting to more than €2.1 billion.

  • Natixis proposes toolkit to tackle SDG-washing

    21 September 2018

    Investors are "massively dissatisfied" with the way companies report their contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to Natixis.

  • ESG factors increasingly relevant for fixed income investors

    27 June 2018

    Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are clearly relevant and material for fixed income investors, according to panellists at Environmental Finance's Fixed Income & ESG conference in London.