Archive

  • Mirova's sustainable ocean fund achieves $132m close

    06 August 2020

    Sustainablilty focused asset manager Mirova, an affiliate of Natixis, has closed its Althelia Sustainable Ocean Fund (SOF) with $132 million, above the target amount of $100 million.

  • People Moves, 10 July: BT Pension; Mirova; JPMorgan; RPMI Railpen; Aegon; Gresham House

    10 July 2020

  • Green and sustainability-linked loan round-up: Keppel, Cobra, Oatly, NMB

    01 July 2020

  • Banks step up action on biodiversity

    15 June 2020

    Natixis, HSBC and a number of Dutch banks are calling for the financial sector to accelerate action to prevent biodiversity loss.

  • Impact debt fund poised to raise €400m

    11 June 2020

    The manager of a debt fund that links the cost of its lending to pre-agreed environmental and social 'key performance indicators' (KPIs) has said the fund is poised to attract €400 million ($455 million) in commitments.

  • Sustainability-linked Bond Principles mark new era for bond market

    09 June 2020

    A set of Sustainability-linked Bond Principles (SLBP) was launched today, in a landmark move that is expected to kickstart a new market of labelled bond issuance that will "complement rather than act as an alternative" to the green bond market.

  • Chinese regulators to exclude 'clean' fossil fuels from green bond standard

    29 May 2020

    Chinese regulators propose to exclude controversial 'clean' fossil fuel projects from their list of eligible green bonds.

  • Banks' fossil fuel commitments accelerate as pressure intensifies

    19 May 2020

  • Unédic issues largest ever social bond

    18 May 2020

    Unédic, France's unemployment insurance management body, has launched the world's largest ever social bond, raising €4 billion ($4.3 billion) to support its response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • What makes a good corona-bond?

    29 April 2020

    Amid the pressing need to rush out Covid-19 bonds, how to uphold best practice, asks Michael Hurley