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Green bond comment, January 2018: What has the green bond market ever done for us?

In the classic film Monty Python's Life of Brian, a group plotting to overthrow the Roman Empire ask: 'What have the Romans ever done for us?'

IFC's emerging market green bond fund set to close 'in weeks'

The IFC and Amundi's emerging market green bond fund is expected to launch officially early next month, Environmental Finance has learned.

Green bonds round-up, 14 December 2017

HSBC expects up to $180bn of green bonds in 2018

HSBC predicts green bond supply to reach as much as $180 billion next year, up from the bank's projected sum of $125 billion for 2017.

Green bond comment, November 2017

It was great to have something positive to announce about the US green bond market at this year's Green Bonds Americas conference!

Folksam buys more green bonds and doubles investment target

Sweden's Folksam has acquired $350 million of green bonds from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank.

SEB recruits Powell from IFC

Swedish bank SEB has recruited IFC's head of funding and Treasury market operations, Ben Powell, to join its sustainability team.

Green bond comment: Back to work!

The summer holiday is over for the green bond market.

IFC's Hartwick joins AIIB

Evelyn Hartwick is to move from the IFC's Treasury department to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

Cubico closes $450m of renewables projects in Mexico

Cubico Sustainable Investments has raised $450 million in debt for the construction of 600MW of renewables projects in Mexico.