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Banco BPM enters growing green Tier 2 bond market

Banco BPM has issued a €500 million ($570 million) green Tier 2 bond, which the lender said is the first green subordinated Tier 2 instrument launched by an Italian bank, as the labelled subordinated bond market continues its gradual growth.

Gresham House acquires major US timberland manager

Sustainable debt round-up: BBVA, Iberdrola, Republic of Austria ... and more

New Zealand LGFA launches water-focused sustainability-linked loan programme

The New Zealand Local Government Funding Agency (LGFA) has launched a pioneering sustainability-linked loan (SLL) programme focused on local government water companies.

AI data centre sustainable debt spurs innovation - and risk

Asia is keen to take the lead on finding flexible but credible ways for the market to support data centre investment, Ahren Lester reports

Nature risk toolkit launched for southeast Asia

A toolkit has been launched to help financial institutions in southeast Asia identify which nature datasets can be used to assess nature-related risks.

ING remains upbeat on sustainable debt, despite slow start to year

Strong demand for plain vanilla bonds and the US-Iran conflict have impacted sustainable debt issuance this year, according to ING, although it has maintained its prediction that labelled debt issuance will surpass $1.6 trillion in 2026.

Edentree ponders flexible sustainable bond strategies to tackle transition, EM

Edentree Investment Management (IM) is looking at new products to tackle transition and emerging market fixed income opportunities amid an "uneasy fit" in established - but restrictive - sustainable bond strategies.

French local government lender to start issuing green and social bonds

French local government lender Agence France Locale (AFL) has updated its sustainable finance framework, enabling it to issue standalone green and social bonds alongside sustainability bonds.

RGREEN Invest raises €500m for fourth infrastructure debt fund