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  • Obvion allocates inaugural green RMBS only to green investors

    09 June 2016

    Dutch mortgage lender Obvion has priced its inaugural green residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS), allocating the entire bond to green investors.

  • EF BRIEFS: Gothenburg, IEA, MTA, SunEdison

    01 June 2016

    The City of Gothenburg is gearing up to tap the green bond market for the fourth time.

  • Moody's issues two more green bond assessments

    01 June 2016

    Less than a week after Moody's launched its inaugural Green Bond Assessment (GBA), the ratings agency has issued two more.

  • Rabobank to roadshow world's first green RMBS

    24 May 2016

    A Rabobank Group subsidiary has launched what it claims is the first green residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS) programme in the world.

  • EF BRIEFS: FSB, Axis Bank, EIB, Stockholm, Canadian Solar, GRI, BP

    23 May 2016

    The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has appointed nine more members to its new Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.

  • EF BRIEFS: Dong Energy, TenneT, TerraForm Power, Yingli, KfW

    13 May 2016

    Danish utility and offshore wind specialist Dong Energy expects to float this summer, it has announced.

  • FlexiGroup gains tighter prices on green tranche

    21 April 2016

    FlexiGroup has achieved tighter pricing for the green tranche of it latest asset backed security (ABS), Environmental Finance can reveal.

  • Moody's ups 2016 green bond forecast to $70bn

    21 April 2016

    Moody's has upped its prediction for green bond issuance for 2016 to $70 billion, after a record-breaking first quarter boosted by a spate of massive deals from Chinese.

  • FlexiGroup launches ABS with green tranche

    18 April 2016

    Australian consumer lender FlexiGroup has launched an A$260 million ($200 million) asset backed security (ABS) with a green tranche.

  • The differences between incorporating ESG into fixed income and equities

    13 April 2016

    The process of incorporating ESG into fixed income is different to that for equities, but it is even more important to do so, argues My-Linh Ngo