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  • JP Morgan and BlackRock launch ESG emerging market fixed income index

    19 April 2018

    JP Morgan and BlackRock have joined forces to launch what they claim to be the "first-of-its kind" suite of emerging markets, fixed income indexes that integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.

  • Green bond round-up, 18 April 2018

    18 April 2018

    BNP Paribas has returned to the green bond market with a €500 million ($618 million), six-year offering paying a coupon of 1.00%.

  • Environmental Finance Green Bond Awards winners revealed

    28 March 2018

    Environmental Finance's Green Bond Awards have grown for the second consecutive year, as the number of categories expands in line with a rapidly expanding market.

  • Franklin Templeton launches its first climate change fund

    06 March 2018

    Franklin Templeton Investments has repurposed one of its products as its first fund focused on climate change goals.

  • Belgian green bond eyes more than €3bn as framework is unveiled

    09 February 2018

    Belgium's much anticipated green bond issue is expected to raise more than €3 billion ($3.68 billion) and proceeds will be used for investments in five sectors.

  • People moves: ICMA, JP Morgan and BIG

    09 February 2018

    The International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Esohe Denise Odaro has taken a secondment at the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), where she is director in the Green Bond Principles/Social Bond Principles (GBP/SBP) secretariat.

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

    08 February 2018

    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?'

  • Green bond round-up, 07 February 2018

    07 February 2018

    Belgium is expected to commence a series of meetings with investors tomorrow as it officially revealed its intention to issue a green bond "in the near future".

  • Societe Generale follows BNP in walking away from oil sands

    11 December 2017

    Societe Generale has committed €100 billion towards financing the energy transition by 2020 and will stop lending to oil sands and Arctic oil projects.

  • JP Morgan is top green bond underwriter in Q3, with a string of EM deals

    13 October 2017

    JP Morgan seized the bragging rights to the green bond underwriting market in the third quarter of 2017, helped by a series of benchmark-sized issues in emerging markets.