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NYK ready to issue shipping's first green bond
17 April 2018Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) will become the world's first shipping company to issue a labelled green bond, hot on the heels of the industry's commitment to halve carbon emissions by 2050.
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Big in Japan?
04 September 2017Support from the biggest pension fund in the world is helping ESG take off in Japan, write Peter Cripps and Joe Walsh
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Hannon Armstrong prices $135m of convertibles
18 August 2017Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI) has priced a $135 million offering of convertible senior notes.
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[Updated] Fannie Mae prices its first structured green MBS
16 February 2017The US Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) has priced a $611 million securitised bond that aggregates numerous green mortgages.
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Ulrik Ross leaves HSBC
30 January 2017HSBC's global head of public sector and sustainable debt, Ulrik Ross, has left the bank, according to figures in the green bond market.
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Green Bonds Round Up - 18 January 17
18 January 2017Danish public sector lender KommuneKredit is gearing up to launch a benchmark-sized euro-denominated green bond in the second quarter of this year.
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50 shades of green bonds - and 50 ways of assessing them
29 December 2016Ratings agencies have weighed into the green bond market in the past year, adding to the raft of existing tools for assessing bonds. Where is this increasingly crowded marketplace heading, asks Peter Cripps
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Ygrene issues first AAA rated Pace bond in $329.5m fundraise
15 November 2016Ygrene Energy Fund has raised $329.5 million by issuing two Property Assessed Clean Energy (Pace) bonds including the market's first AAA rated notes.
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KfW comes to market with kanga green bond
30 March 2015KfW has issued its first green bond in Australian dollars.
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EIB issues €400m tap of Climate Awareness Bond with negative yield
24 February 2015The European Investment Bank (EIB) has further expanded its range of green bonds, with its first issue offering a negative yield.