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  • Green bond round-up, 17 January 2018

    17 January 2018

    Swedish bank SEB expects 2018 will be "a year of consolidation and more modest growth" for green bond issuance than in 2017, with potential to grow 12% year-on-year, to $175 billion.

  • Environmental Finance Green Bond Awards open for entries

    10 January 2018

    Green bonds saw another year of record growth and Environmental Finance is calling for entries for its annual Green Bond Awards to honour the market leaders.

  • €2.8bn infra fund attracts broad pension fund investment

    29 December 2017

    Danish fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has raised €2.8 billion ($3.35 billion) in a sixth close of its third energy fund, with investment largely from European pension funds.

  • European banks focus on green tagging to drive energy efficiency

    15 December 2017

    Green tagging is emerging as a key strategy for leading European banks looking to scale up financing of energy-efficient real estate, a report has found.

  • How to boost the flow of bankable water projects?

    20 October 2017

    There are countless water infra projects that need funding and no shortage of potential investors. But how to bridge the funding gap and create bankable projects asks Aaron Vermeulen

  • SEB recruits Powell from IFC

    11 September 2017

    Swedish bank SEB has recruited IFC's head of funding and Treasury market operations, Ben Powell, to join its sustainability team.

  • US outpaces France as leader in 2017 green bond issuance

    30 August 2017

    Issuance in the US green bond market has overtaken that of France in terms of volume, with a total figure of $22.2 billion so far in 2017, a report by Swedish bank SEB has revealed.

  • Azure Power issues $500m green bond

    31 July 2017

    Indian solar energy company Azure has issued a twice-oversubscribed green bond, shrugging off a turbulent Asian bonds market that has caused three other issues to be cancelled.

  • Green bond comment: New issues rise 36% in H1

    05 July 2017

    A 36% increase in new issues in the first six months of this year, combined with further signs of maturity in the market, suggest green bonds are entering their second decade in good health.

  • Green bond round-up, 7 June

    07 June 2017

    Dutch public sector lender Nederlandse WaterschapsBank (NWB) has issued a €2 billion ($2.3 billion) affordable housing bond, its first in the social bond market.