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  • BNG issues €1bn social bond to finance housing associations

    11 July 2016

    Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (BNG), a Dutch public sector bank, has issued a €1 billion ($1.1 billion) bond to support the social housing sector in the Netherlands. It is believed to be the first social bond issued in line with the guidance on such issues in the recently revised Green Bond Principles.

  • Chinese bank issues largest international green bond

    06 July 2016

    One of China's largest state-owned commercial banks has issued the largest green bond to date in the international markets.

  • INDCs to become 'significant' ratings driver, says Moody's

    28 June 2016

    Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) will become key ratings drivers as countries enact and ratify the landmark Paris climate agreement, according to a report by Moody's.

  • 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.