Archive

  • HSBC tightens pricing 'significantly' on first green bond as order book hits €2.1bn

    27 November 2015

    HSBC France has seen huge demand for its inaugural green bond, enabling it to tighten pricing "significantly" on the deal.

  • Axa IM launches green bond fund

    11 November 2015

    Axa Investment Managers has launched a green bond fund.

  • ING Bank plans green bond issue

    10 November 2015

    ING Bank is set to join the growing list of lenders issuing green bonds, Environmental Finance understands.

  • Green bond comment, October

    28 October 2015

    A series of chunky issues have provided a welcome boost the green bond market in recent weeks.

  • 'One fifth of new bonds could be labelled green by 2020' says SEB's Flensborg

    28 October 2015

    Green bond pioneer Christopher Flensborg has predicted that the asset class will account for up to a fifth of all bond issuance between now and the end of the decade.

  • KfW ups size of latest green bond to make biggest issue of 2015

    20 October 2015

    KfW has come to market with the biggest green bond of 2015 so far.

  • Growing the corporate green bond market

    16 October 2015

    The enormous potential of companies to tap the green bond market has yet to be realised. Sophie Robinson-Tillett asks why

  • Two Swedish real estate firms each issue SEK500m green bonds

    28 August 2015

    Swedish municipal housing associations Stångåstaden and Uppsalahem have become the latest real estate firms to tap the green bond market after they both priced SEK500 million ($58 million) issues.

  • NWB Bank issues largest SSA green bond of the year

    27 August 2015

    Dutch public sector lender Nederlandse WaterschapsBank (NWB) has issued a €1 billion ($1.13 billion) green bond – the largest euro-denominated transaction of this kind to come out of a supranational, sub-sovereign and agency (SSA) this year.

  • Green bond comment: August's milestones and the promise of a golden autumn

    26 August 2015

    August was not a big month in terms of green bond issuance but the market continued to take important steps along the road to maturity, while participants are becoming increasingly excited about the prospect of a golden autumn, says Peter Cripps.