-
Green bonds round-up, 5 September 2018
05 September 2018German real estate bank, Deutsche Hypothekenbank, has issued its second €500 million ($580 million) green Pfandbrief.
-
Green is Good
22 August 2018Times are a-changin' in the bond market. Companies with strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings stand to have privileged access to the capital markets. A universal 'green treasury' approach is needed to reap the economic and social rewards, says Arthur Krebbers
-
People moves: AP3, ISS-Oekom, IETA
10 August 2018Mårten Lindeborg, AP3’s CIO and deputy CEO, has passed away. The Swedish buffer fund announced yesterday that Lindeborg died after a short illness
-
Green Bonds round-up, 27 June
27 June 2018KBC Group, a leading Belgian financial institution, has issued its first green bond – a five-year, €500 million ($600 million) transaction that was three-times oversubscribed.
-
ESG factors increasingly relevant for fixed income investors
27 June 2018Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are clearly relevant and material for fixed income investors, according to panellists at Environmental Finance's Fixed Income & ESG conference in London.
-
Green bond round-up, 9 May
09 May 2018BBVA has tapped the green bond market with the largest ever green bond issue by a Eurozone financial institution.
-
ISS-Oekom to extend coverage of forward-looking impact assessment tool
04 May 2018ISS-Oekom will extend the scope of a ‘forward-looking’ tool it uses to evaluate the impact of companies’ contributions to environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives.
-
Green bond round-up, 25 April
25 April 2018More than $3.3 billion of green bonds have settled in the first three days of this week*, with announcements suggesting that a strong pipeline of issuance of green and social bonds can be expected in coming weeks.
-
ISS expands ESG offering with Oekom acquisition
15 March 2018Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has continued to build out its capabilities in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) data arena, with the acquisition of Oekom Research, arguably the last of the independent second party opinion providers in the green bond market.
-
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.