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Green and sustainability-linked loan round-up: Keppel, Cobra, Oatly, NMB

IFC celebrates 100 signatories to impact principles

100 investors have signed up to a set of principles that require annual public disclosure of information on how they seek to achieve positive impact through their investments, as well as independent verification of their alignment with the principles.

HSBC and IFC real economy green bond fund raises $470m

HSBC Global Asset Management (HSBC GAM) and the International Finance Corporation announced their green bond fund targeting "real economy" assets has raised more than $470 million following its third close.

Emerging market green bond issuance jumps a fifth in 2019

Green bond issuance across emerging markets jumped a fifth in 2019, a report by Amundi Asset Management and the International Finance Corporation revealed.

A principled approach to impact

The Operating Principles for Impact are set to bring increased transparency to impact investing, the IFC's Neil Gregory tells Michael Hurley, on the first anniversary of their launch.

Covid-19 slams the brakes on green bond issuance

Issuance of green, social and sustainability (GSS) bonds slowed dramatically in the first three months of 2020, as the severe impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the global economy became clear.

Amundi's one-year-old green bond fund 'ahead of schedule'

The world's largest green bond fund bought more green-labelled issuance in its first year than originally anticipated, Frédéric Samama tells Michael Hurley

People Moves: Lazard Asset Management, BlackRock, Pensions Infrastructure Platform, PGGM, Carbon Market Institute and St. James's Place

Green bond round-up, 11 July 2018

Actiam New Member of the ICMA Executive Committee

The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) announced Foppe-Jan van der Meij of Actiam as its new member of the Executive Committee of the Green Bond Principles (GBP) at the annual meeting on 14 June 2018.