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Green bond round-up, 16 May
16 May 2018The African Development Bank (AfDB) has priced its second social bond to help finance socio-economic development on the continent.
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Banking on a changing climate?
05 April 2018Climate change poses a significant threat to banks. How big is their exposure to climate risks, and what are they doing to mitigate them, asks Peter Cripps
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France grows green bond to €11bn
05 April 2018The Republic of France has grown the size of its sovereign green bond to €10.8 billion ($13.3 billion) by tapping it for a third time.
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Olam secures Asia's first sustainability-linked club loan facility
26 March 2018Agri business Olam has signed a three-year sustainability-linked revolving credit facility, aggregating $500 million of loans.
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First green-certified commercial real estate loan to build Paris towers
09 March 2018A commercial real estate loan that will help build hotel and office space in Paris has become the first to be certified as green and provide an accompanying external second party opinion.
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Green Bond Comment, February 2018
07 March 2018Sovereign issuers gave a major boost to the green bond market in February, with inaugural issues from Belgium (€4.5 billion) and Indonesia ($1.25 billion) and a repeat issue from Poland (€1.0 billion).
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Natixis repackages French green sovereign bond into green structured note
05 March 2018French bank Natixis has designed what it claims is the first green structured note – a repackaging of France's €7 billion ($8.6 billion) green obligation assimilable du Trésor (OAT).
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Investors take more active ESG approach, Natixis survey finds
27 February 2018New attitudes towards environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing are emerging, as investors believe it will become "standard practice" soon, a survey has found.
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Danone 'paves the way' for linking ESG with traditional financing
21 February 2018An agreement to link Danone's €2 billion ($2.5 billion) syndicated credit facility with environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria has been hailed as "the future of banking".
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€1bn green covered bond to be issued tomorrow
29 January 2018The first green covered bond from a Nordic bank will be issued tomorrow.