Archive

  • Credit Suisse seals deal to cater to private client demand for impact

    23 October 2020

    A tie-up between Credit Suisse, The Conduit Connect, Linklaters and Deloitte will aim to make it easier for the Swiss bank's private clients to make impact investments.

  • Moody's to retire green bond assessment in favour of Vigeo Eiris' opinions

    23 October 2020

    Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service has scrapped its Green Bond Assessment (GBA) service, instead focusing on the second party opinion (SPO) provided by its subsidiary VE.

  • Bantleon launches global green bond fund

    23 October 2020

    Swiss asset manager Bantleon has launched a €10 million ($12 million) global green bond fund for its institutional investor clients.

  • People Moves 23 October: Clim8 Invest; CofE Pensions Board; SEKSL; AllianceBernstein; Earth Capital; Christian Super

    23 October 2020

    Sustainability investment platform recruits Hiscox CIO

  • F4B develops framework for combating biodiversity 'destruction'

    23 October 2020

    Financial institutions should disclose their impacts on biodiversity and be made legally liable for them, according to a new blueprint for a financial system that doesn't harm nature.

  • TPG raises $2.2bn for second impact fund

    23 October 2020

    TPG has raised $2.16 billion for its second Rise Fund, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

  • News round-up: Verra farming credits, 'social' in spotlight, EU fossil fuel subsidies ... and more

    23 October 2020
  • GIIN publishes impact performance comparisons

    23 October 2020

    The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has published reports it says will catalyse the widespread comparison of the impact performance of individual investments.

  • Green and sustainability-linked loan round-up: Enel, Millicom, Seaspan ... and more

    22 October 2020

    Italian utility firm Enel has signed its first €1 billion ($1.2 billion) sustainability-linked loan (SLL), days after issuing another sustainability-linked bond (SLB).

  • Bank of China issues first 'blue bonds' in Asia

    22 October 2020

    The Bank of China (BoC) has issued the first blue bonds in Asia, raising nearly $950 million in a transaction described as a "milestone" in the development of financial instruments that help protect the oceans.