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  • 'Promising' future for sustainable sukuk as record 2024 on track

    01 August 2024

    Medium-term growth in sustainable sukuk issuance remains "promising" amid a record-breaking start to 2024 for the sustainable Islamic bond market, with some key markets seeing almost half of total sustainable bond issuance in sukuk format.

  • PCAF reaches 500 signatories

    01 August 2024
  • IETA launches Article 6 platform in Singapore

    01 August 2024

    IETA, formerly the International Emissions Trading Association, and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) has launched a platform to help Singaporean companies access high-quality Article 6 credits.

  • Minority of sustainability-linked loan frameworks are 'high quality,' says Moody's

    31 July 2024

    Moody's said a minority of the dedicated sustainability-linked loan (SLL) frameworks it has reviewed were judged to be high quality in terms of their metrics and targets set - in stark contrast to their bond equivalents.

  • Investor concerns at inadequate climate accounting prompt IASB explainer

    31 July 2024

    "Strong demand" from investors who expressed concerns that climate-related information was not sufficiently captured in financial statements has prompted the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to publish examples to clarify its expectations.

  • Moody's: 'Stark difference' in debut sustainable bond issuers entering market in 2024

    30 July 2024

    There has been a "quite dramatic" decline in new issuers entering the sustainable bond market in 2024 as issuers take longer to move from formulating frameworks to executing deals ...

  • ING says it wants to share its transition plan assessment methodology

    30 July 2024

    Dutch bank ING has invited other banks to use an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled methodology it has developed to judge the credibility of the transition plans of its clients.

  • Regulators seek to overcome PAI challenges in SFDR Q&A

    29 July 2024
  • Judging the credibility of transition plans, part two

    29 July 2024

    Investors preparing for a wave of transition plan disclosures face a complicated task to determine 'what good looks like', Michael Hurley writes

  • People Moves, 26 July: Greenbank, Moody's LSEG, Cbus ... and more

    26 July 2024