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Green bond round-up, 7 November 2018
07 November 2018MuenchenerHyp set the coupon on its debut five-year green Pfandbrief at 0.250% and priced the deal at eight basis points below the mid-swaps rate.
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People Moves: World Bank, BNP Paribas, BlackRock
02 November 2018Jingdong Hua has been appointed as vice president and treasurer of the World Bank, and will start his new post on 1 January.
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First sovereign blue bond launched
29 October 2018The Republic of Seychelles has issued a first-of-its-kind sovereign 'blue bond' to help conserve its marine environment, sparking hopes that the deal will kickstart a new market for ocean-themed bonds.
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People moves: IOSCO, London Stock Exchange Group, Simmons & Simmons, UBS
19 October 2018Peter Damgaard Jensen has been appointed as co-organizer of the newly founded Global Commission on Adaptation. Damgaard Jensen also acts as CEO of Danish pension scheme PKA and chair of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), an investor association taking action to support a low-carbon future.
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Green bonds round-up, 17 October 2018
17 October 2018German commercial bank Berlin Hyp has raised €500 million ($578 million) from its third green Pfandbrief. This takes the total green debt issued by the bank to €3 billion.
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People Moves: AXA, Lightsource BP, Triodos, Zurich
24 September 2018AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has set up a central responsible investment (RI) team, as it seeks to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into all of its investment platforms.
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Green bond round-up, 19 September
19 September 2018DZ Bank is planning to raise €250 million ($300 million) by issuing its first labelled green bond.
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EIB and World Bank join forces to boost green bond market
14 September 2018The European Investment Bank (EIB) and World Bank, issuers of the first green bonds in 2007 and 2008 respectively, plan to work together to help more companies, municipalities and other sub-national issuers bring such bonds to market.
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World Bank issues sustainability-linked notes for UBS clients
12 September 2018The World Bank has partnered with UBS to offer a bond linked to a sustainability index to help raise funds for its sustainable development work.
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Green bond funds double AuM in 12 months (Full table here)
24 August 2018Total assets under management (AuM) in green bond funds has more than doubled since July 2017, to $5.34 billion, according to a survey by Environmental Finance. In the same period, the number of funds has risen by more than a third, to 38.