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Green bond round-up, 22 August 2018
22 August 2018Bank Australia has raised AUD125 million ($92 million) from its inaugural sustainability notes.
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Green bonds round-up, 1 August 2018
01 August 2018Moody's Investors Service has lowered its expectations for green bond issuance this year, in light of slower growth in the first six months.
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Green bonds round-up, 18 July 2018
18 July 2018Terna, the operator of the Italian electricity grid, has entered the green bond market for the first time, with a €750 million ($872 million) offering maturing in July 2023.
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Boralex secures C$259m to fund wind farm acquisitions
12 July 2018Boralex, Canada's largest independent producer of wind power, has raised C$258.8 million ($196 million) in equity finance to fund its acquisition of Invenergy's stake in a 201MW portfolio of wind farms in Quebec.
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Green bonds round-up, 4 July
04 July 2018Spanish utility Iberdrola has returned to the market with its tenth green bond. The €750 million deal pays a coupon of 1.25% and matures in October 2026.
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Green bond round-up, 20 June, 2018
20 June 2018ESG investors flock to Australian SDG bond National Australia Bank (NAB) has issued its first 'green SDG bond' which it said aligns with the Green Bond Principles while also contributing to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Green bond round-up, 13 June 2018
13 June 2018DNB Boligkreditt, a subsidiary of Norwegian bank DNB, has raised €1.5 billion ($1.76 billion) from its first green covered bond.
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Green bonds round-up, 2 May
02 May 2018DTE Electric, an electricity utility based in Detroit, Michigan, has entered the green bond market with a $525 million, 30-year issue. It pays a coupon of 4.05% and was priced at 97 basis points over US Treasuries, giving a yield to maturity of 4.076%. The issue has been rated Aa3, A and A+ by Moody's, S&P Global and Fitch, respectively.
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Quebec issues vastly oversubscribed green bond
23 February 2018The Canadian province of Québec has returned to the green bond market, raising C$500 million ($390 million) in a vastly oversubscribed issue.
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2018 'set to be another record year' for the green bond market
26 January 2018The green bond market is set for another record-breaking year of issues in 2018, according to an online poll conducted by Environmental Finance.