Archive

  • GPC: Protecting the GIB's green mandate

    20 April 2017

    As part of the terms of the sale of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) the UK government set up the Green Purposes Company (GPC), which owns a "special share" allocation designed to safeguard the GIB mission to channel money into green projects.

  • GIB sold to Macquarie-led consortium for £2.3bn

    20 April 2017

    The Green Investment Bank (GIB) has been controversially sold to a consortium led by Australian bank Macquarie for £2.3 billion ($2.9 billion).

  • SDCL to launch two funds following court GIB decision

    12 April 2017

    Sustainable Development Capital Ltd (SDCL) is to launch two new funds following a high court decision rejecting its challenge of the UK government's decision to award Australian bank Macquarie Capital preferred bidder status for the sale of the Green Investment Bank (GIB).

  • Judicial review sought over sale of GIB

    01 March 2017

    A firm vying to acquire the UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) has launched a legal challenge in the High Court over the government's decision to award Australian bank Macquarie Capital preferred bidder status.

  • Macquarie dismisses reports it is looking to asset-strip GIB

    26 January 2017

    Macquarie Capital has hit back at reports it will sell of the assets of the UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) if it is selected as buyer.

  • UK government denies reports of IPO for green bank

    23 January 2017

    A report that the UK government is considering floating the Green Investment Bank on the London Stock Exchange, instead of a private sale to Macquarie, has been denied.

  • GIB's offshore wind fund passes £1bn in AUM with final investment

    13 January 2017

    The Green Investment Bank's (GIB) offshore wind fund made its final investment, acquiring a 44% stake in Lincs offshore wind farm for £429 million ($524.4 million), to take its assets under management (AUM) to £1.12 billion.

  • Sale of UK's GIB not yet 'a done deal'

    09 January 2017

    Press reports that the UK government has agreed to sell the Green Investment Bank (GIB) to Australian bank Macquarie may be premature, a source close to the negotiations has told Environmental Finance.

  • 50 shades of green bonds - and 50 ways of assessing them

    29 December 2016

    Ratings agencies have weighed into the green bond market in the past year, adding to the raft of existing tools for assessing bonds. Where is this increasingly crowded marketplace heading, asks Peter Cripps

  • GIB, MUFG, Siemens and Barclays fund £180m energy-from-waste plant

    16 December 2016

    The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) has invested alongside Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Siemens Bank, Natixis and Barclays into a £180 million ($225 million) energy-from-waste plant in Wales.