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  • KfW ups size of latest green bond to make biggest issue of 2015

    20 October 2015

    KfW has come to market with the biggest green bond of 2015 so far.

  • Canadian Solar buys C$270m of solar from KKR

    05 October 2015

    Canadian Solar has bought a fleet of solar plants from private equity firm KKR in a C$270 million ($204 million) deal.

  • Green bonds market sees summer slow-down despite key deals

    02 October 2015

    The green bond market has seen a drought of issuance in the third quarter of 2015, according to new data from Environmental Finance.

  • NWB Bank issues largest SSA green bond of the year

    27 August 2015

    Dutch public sector lender Nederlandse WaterschapsBank (NWB) has issued a €1 billion ($1.13 billion) green bond – the largest euro-denominated transaction of this kind to come out of a supranational, sub-sovereign and agency (SSA) this year.

  • Private equity firm gets $59m backing for Peruvian hydro

    20 August 2015

    A Peruvian hydropower company has secured a $59 million loan from a series of investors to construct two projects in the country.

  • Consortium lands 'unprecedented' debt package for Australian wind

    20 August 2015

    John Laing and other investors have landed 'an unprecedented' financing package to build an Australian wind farm.

  • Green bonds: The state of sterling

    14 August 2015

    With only a handful of green bonds so far issued in sterling, what is holding the market back, asks Sophie Robinson-Tillett

  • Green bond comment - July 2015

    29 July 2015

    There is no sign that the green bond market has gone off for an early summer break.

  • German wind projects dominate KfW's loans in H1

    27 July 2015

    Wind projects accounted for 89% of the €1.87 billion ($2.08 billion) of renewable energy loans approved by German development bank KfW in the first six months of this year, with 7% being allocated to solar projects.

  • KfW makes debut in sterling green bond market

    24 July 2015

    KfW has issued its first sterling-denominated green bond. The £500 million ($775 million) issue had been expected and continues the development bank's efforts to boost liquidity in the green bond market.