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  • Olam secures Asia's first sustainability-linked club loan facility

    26 March 2018

    Agri business Olam has signed a three-year sustainability-linked revolving credit facility, aggregating $500 million of loans.

  • 2018 'set to be another record year' for the green bond market

    26 January 2018

    The green bond market is set for another record-breaking year of issues in 2018, according to an online poll conducted by Environmental Finance.

  • Big in Japan?

    04 September 2017

    Support from the biggest pension fund in the world is helping ESG take off in Japan, write Peter Cripps and Joe Walsh

  • Two major LatAm wind deals reach financial close

    09 August 2017

    Two major wind deals in Latin America, both involving emerging markets private equity firm Actis, have reached financial close.

  • HgCapital sells stake in Irish wind assets to Japanese

    02 August 2017

    Invis Energy, a joint venture between HgCapital and engineering company Craydel, has sold a 60% stake in five Irish wind farms to a group of Japanese investors. The price paid was not disclosed.

  • India, Paris and EIB add $2bn to green bond market

    03 July 2017

    The European Investment Bank (EIB), has issued a €1 billion ($1.124 billion) Climate Awareness Bond maturing in 2047.

  • Credit Agricole, BNP and Natixis fund world's largest solar project

    25 May 2017

    The world's largest solar photovoltaic (PV) project, at 1.2GW when operational, has received $900 million in funding including loans from Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Natixis as part of a banking syndicate.

  • TSKB to issue sustainability bond to increase bank capital

    16 March 2017

    Turkish investment and development bank Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma (TSKB) is gearing up to issue a first-of-its-kind sustainability bond that will be partially used to meet the bank's capital requirements.

  • Starbucks issues JPY85bn sustainability bond

    13 March 2017

    US coffee shop giant Starbucks has issued a JPY85 billion ($736 million) sustainability bond, the biggest of its kind issued in Japanese yen.

  • Why Allianz is investing where the wind blows

    10 February 2017

    Allianz's in-house alternative asset manager has closed four tax equity investments in US wind farms in only 12 months, and plans more in 2017. Head of renewables at Allianz Capital Partners David Jones talks to Asa Gibson about the firm's American wind adventure.