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Green bonds round-up, 14 November 2018
14 November 2018Netherlands-based ING Group has completed a dual-tranche green bond worth $2.96 billion, making it the largest Europe-based financial institution issuer of green bonds.
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R&I plans to exclude coal and oil companies from its second opinion service
11 October 2018A chief analyst at Rating and Investment Information (R&I) said the company plans to exclude coal and oil companies from its second opinion provider service for green bonds.
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Japan's Sparx attracts ¥47bn for renewables fund
30 July 2018Japanese fund manager Sparx Asset Trust & Management, which oversees some ¥1,122 trillion ($10 billion), has announced the final close of its renewable energy brownfield fund, 'Sparx Renewable Energy Brown Fund No. 1'.
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Green bond comment, November 2017
01 November 2017It was great to have something positive to announce about the US green bond market at this year's Green Bonds Americas conference!
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Green bonds round-up, 1 November 2017
01 November 2017After recently establishing a green bond framework, the Nordic-Baltic banking group Swedbank has issued an inaugural €500 million green bond, which it claims is "the tightest unsecured print by some margin (by any bank) in more than a decade".