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  • CAF issues 'distinctive' debut 'Children and Youth Bond'

    02 February 2026

    Development bank CAF has raised $61.6 million from its inaugural children-focused social bond, backed by investors including Nuveen, T Rowe Price, and Legal & General (L&G).

  • 'Focused' IDB Amazonia Bond 'really hits the spot'

    21 November 2025

    The pioneering Amazon-focused deal offers a uniquely impactful template for other issuers and ecosystems to adopt, investors tell Ahren Lester

  • CA-CIB: 'Future of US sustainable bond market is in hands of existing issuers'

    04 November 2025

    The US sustainable bond market may have to focus attention on ensuring existing issuers continue to come to market and innovate as it becomes harder to attract debut issuers to the market, according to Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank (CA-CIB).

  • CA-CIB: Ignore the numbers, LatAm sustainable bond activity is high

    21 October 2025

    Despite a significant slowdown in Latin American (LatAm) sustainable bond issuance, Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank (CA-CIB) said this belies the "active pipeline" of innovations in motion within the region.

  • 'AI could offer better green bond impact and incentives from day one'

    21 March 2025

    Artificial intelligence (AI) could provide an opportunity for green bonds to become "more incentivising and transparent" around impact from the very earliest structuring phase,...

  • US investors still 'actively seeking green bonds'

    29 November 2024

    As the US green bond market continues to struggle, investors must fix sustainable bond demand 'communication break', participants tell Ahren Lester

  • Sustainable bond 'maturity wall' to reshape market

    09 August 2024

    With $1 trillion of sustainable bonds approaching maturity, will their issuers return to the market, asks Ahren Lester

  • Constellation raises $900m in first US 'nuclear' green bond

    20 March 2024

    US energy firm Constellation has raised $900 million from the first green bond from an US issuer which can be used to finance nuclear power projects.

  • People Moves, 8 March: Ardian, Credit Agricole, IFRS, Permira, Palatine, Sustainable Fitch ... and more

    08 March 2024

  • 'Big opportunities' for US sustainable bonds in 2024

    20 February 2024

    Although surprised by the scale of the US sustainable bond contraction in 2023, CA-CIB's Romina Reversi tells Ahren Lester that opportunities abound in 2024