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  • SocGen offers ESG analysis service to institutional investors

    27 November 2017

    Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has launched a service to enable investors and asset managers to measure the impact of their investments on the environment and society.

  • Climate tool for financial firms launched at COP23

    10 November 2017

    A tool designed to help share knowledge about how financial firms are integrating climate considerations into their businesses has been launched at the Bonn Climate Summit.

  • SocGen launches ESG Quality and ESG low-carbon indexes

    20 October 2017

    Societe Generale has launched two environmental, social and governance (ESG) indexes - one uses an innovative 'ESG consensus' approach, and the other combines ESG and low carbon.

  • JP Morgan is top green bond underwriter in Q3, with a string of EM deals

    13 October 2017

    JP Morgan seized the bragging rights to the green bond underwriting market in the third quarter of 2017, helped by a series of benchmark-sized issues in emerging markets.

  • Societe Generale expects growth in sovereign green bond issuance - but maybe not this year

    21 September 2017

    French bank Societe Generale's head of sustainable bonds is "entirely convinced" there will be significant growth in sovereign green bonds issued in Europe in the near future.

  • 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.

  • French property group uses green bonds to boost CSR effort

    05 September 2017

    French real estate investor Icade has issued a green bond to support its corporate social responsibility (CSR) ambitions.

  • French banks are en marche in July green bond underwriting table

    11 August 2017

    BNP Paribas emerged as the biggest green bond underwriter in July, as French banks continued their assault on the high-profile market in a bid to seize the bragging rights from their American rivals.

  • 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.

  • SocGen reshuffles green bond team

    10 July 2017

    Societe Generale has announced several new appointments to develop its role in the market for green and sustainable bonds.