Archive

  • Exclusive: Standard Life among financial institutions in 'just transition' pilot

    08 July 2026

    Standard Life, Swedbank Robur and Ökoworld have begun a pilot initiative to develop methodologies to embed 'just transition' metrics into financial products and stewardship activities, in work led by Germany's Climate & Company.

  • Vasakronan seals EuGB double in quick succession

    09 June 2026

    Property firm and green bond pioneer Vasakronan became the first Swedish issuer of a European Green Bond (EuGB) - before quickly returning to the market with its second deal days later, raising a cumulative SEK2.8 billion ($296 million).

  • Swedbank invests in biodiversity credit pilot and says market could exist in a year

    05 June 2023

    A global market for biodiversity credits may exist within a year, according to Swedbank Group, as it revealed that it has invested in a pilot project that will generate credits.

  • US states target ESG investment as US SIF hits back at 'political' attacks

    25 August 2022

    Politicians in two US states have launched anti-environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment policies, whilst the US SIF has published an 'ESG Truths' website amid growing "politically motivated and simplistic attacks" on ESG in the country.

  • Sustainability-linked finance guidelines for shipping firms published

    17 February 2022

    Guidelines for shipping firms and lenders on issuing sustainability-linked loans and bonds have been published by a working group of Nordic firms in order to introduce a higher level of industry standardisation and avoid 'greenwashing'.

  • K2A launches 'world's first' green equity framework

    13 May 2020

    Swedish housing company K2A has launched what it believes to be the first green-labelled equity framework.

  • UPM signs sustainability loan linked to biodiversity goals

    17 March 2020

  • Airport operator Swedavia issues SEK1bn green bond

    10 December 2019

    Swedish state-owned Swedavia has become the latest in a string of airport operators to issue a green bond.

  • People Moves: IIGCC, Riksbank, Bloomberg

    15 November 2019

  • ESG in Fixed Income Europe, featuring Green Bonds

    03 July 2019

    Nearly 400 delegates attended the conference, now in its ninth year`