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  • NRW issues its largest sustainability bond

    07 March 2018

    The State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has priced a €2.025 billion ($2.51 billion) sustainability bond – its largest ever.

  • People moves, 2 February 2018

    02 February 2018

    Ulrika Hasselgren has left Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) to head the responsible investment team at Danske Bank.

  • Mapping the SDGs

    11 December 2017

    Two years on from the launch of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, how are investors responding, asks Peter Cripps

  • Rating agencies are the main driver of corporate sustainability, says Oekom

    18 October 2017

    Companies currently regard rating agencies as the primary driver of sustainability, but expect them to be overtaken in the future by customer demands, regulations and investor pressure, according to German research firm Oekom.

  • Green bond round-up, 20 September 2017

    20 September 2017

    Mexico City Airport Trust has returned to the green bond market with the biggest corporate issue to date – a two-tranche $4 billion bond – to finance what it claims will be the world's most sustainable airport.

  • Green bond round-up, 6 September 2017

    06 September 2017

    Canada's export credit agency, Export Development Canada (EDC) has issued its fourth green bond – its first denominated in its home currency.

  • Natixis issues first green CMBS

    07 July 2017

    Natixis has issued the world's first green commercial mortgage backed securitisation (CMBS) in collaboration with real estate investors Ivanhoé Cambridge and Callahan Capital Properties, raising $72 million.

  • Nordea roadshows green bond at Environmental Finance conference

    21 June 2017

    Scandinavian financial services group Nordea is this week roadshowing its inaugural green bond, including meeting investors on the sidelines of Environmental Finance's Green Bonds Europe 2017 conference.

  • Comment: Why impact is the word of the moment

    21 April 2017

    Measuring impact is increasingly a preoccupation of investors in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space.

  • Introducing the Principles for Positive Impact Finance

    19 April 2017

    The Principles have been designed to help meet the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. But how will they be implemented? Peter Cripps reports