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  • Kawasaki publishes 'world first' purchaser-focused green finance framework

    16 March 2026

    Kawasaki Heavy Industries has published a sustainable finance framework which includes an innovative 'sales promotion' framework to help customers raise their own green and transition finance after they purchase its sustainable products.

  • Mizuho: Nature bond growth a 'natural next step' after 'symbolic' Japan debut

    07 August 2025

    Japanese interest in the newly introduced 'nature bond' sub-label is off to a strong start amid the highly "symbolic" inaugural transaction from Nagoya City and growing momentum behind the critical sustainable finance theme, according to Mizuho Securities.

  • Japan's Nagoya plans 'first' ICMA-aligned 'nature bond'

    06 August 2025

    The City of Nagoya is planning to raise JPY5 billion ($34 million) from a green bond which could be the first to use the 'nature bond' sub-label approved by an influential trade association.

  • Green label helps Hungary issue longer-dated debt

    23 February 2022

    Hungary has raised JPY59 billion ($514 million) from its second 'samurai' sovereign green bond, with the green label helping it to attract investors to longer duration paper.

  • People Moves 15 October: McKinley returns to BlackRock, Leigh-Bell leaves CBI, and Howchin quits Swedish funds

    15 October 2021

  • Further 'sustainability-linked green' bonds expected in future, says Mizuho

    13 April 2021

    Hopes are high that the first sustainability-linked green bond in Japan will spark a flurry of others, according to Mizuho Securities, amid expectations that sustainability-linked fixed income instruments will become the main sustainable bond product in the country in the future.

  • Bank of China issues first 'blue bonds' in Asia

    22 October 2020

    The Bank of China (BoC) has issued the first blue bonds in Asia, raising nearly $950 million in a transaction described as a "milestone" in the development of financial instruments that help protect the oceans.

  • Green bond round-up: Société du Grand Paris, Duke Energy, ReNew Power, Kommuninvest, World Bank, Santa Fe

    13 March 2019

  • Green bonds round-up, 6 February

    06 February 2019

    Bank of America has raised $500 million from what it said is the first social bond by a US bank.

  • Green bonds round-up, 23 January

    23 January 2019

    Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has issued its second green bond, raising CAD500 million ($375 million).