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  • Belgian regulator hopes SFDR review leads to labelling scheme

    26 June 2024

    A senior figure at Belgium's financial regulator said she hopes the EU's fund disclosure rules are reimagined as a labelling scheme.

  • Bond round-up: JFK International, Pirelli, Iceland ... and more

    26 June 2024
  • Decarbonization Partners leads $69m funding round in carbon removal business

    25 June 2024
  • T Rowe Price elected to Principles ExCom

    25 June 2024

    T Rowe Price has been elected to the executive committee (ExCom) of the Principles, which are widely used as best practice guidelines for the sustainable bond market.

  • Listing rules change will raise cost of capital for UK business, asset owners warn

    21 June 2024
  • GSAM backs SLBs with step-downs

    17 June 2024

    A major sustainable bond investor has urged investors and asset owners to seriously consider sustainability-linked bonds (SLB) with a step-down coupon on achieving or outperforming targets, as it is a "better structure" for the performance-based instrument.

  • Emerging market sustainable bond investment momentum building

    14 June 2024

    Investors and issuers are responding to the challenges EM sustainable bonds pose, and the tide is turning in their favour. Ahren Lester reports

  • Australia raises AUD7bn from three-times oversubscribed green bond debut

    04 June 2024

    The Australian government has raised AUD7 billion ($4.7 billion) from its debut sovereign green bond, with the final orderbook around AUD23 billion.

  • Australia sees strong orderbook for AUD7bn debut sovereign green bond

    03 June 2024

    The Australian government has launched a 10-year sovereign green bond which is intending to raise AUD7 billion ($4.7 billion).

  • Index providers must account for ESG data quality to avoid under-serving investors

    30 May 2024

    There is a risk that green-labeled indices may overpromise and under-deliver without a commitment to data quality and transparency from their providers, writes Jonathan Gardiner