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  • Bank launches green bond database

    28 November 2016

    A bank has launched a green bond database designed to help the market scale up - and to encourage issuers to seek a second opinion.

  • Green bond comment - August

    02 September 2016

    The green bond market could see $100 billion of issues this year.

  • Show me the green money!

    22 August 2016

    Issuers of green bonds are increasingly seeking 'green investors'. But how to define a green investor, and why target them, asks Hamza Ali

  • Are investors beginning to pay up for green bonds?

    26 February 2016

    Are the occasional pieces of evidence that green bonds price differently to their mainstream equivalents a sign of things to come, asks Hamza Ali

  • Green Bond comment - January

    27 January 2016

    The green bond market made a solid start to 2016, says Peter Cripps, while the announcement of Moody's assessment methodology marks another interesting stage in its evolution.

  • Flensborg predicts green bond market will double in 2016

    13 January 2016

    Green bond issuance will double this year, according to SEB's head of sustainable products, Christopher Flensborg.

  • Green bond comment, October

    28 October 2015

    A series of chunky issues have provided a welcome boost the green bond market in recent weeks.

  • 'One fifth of new bonds could be labelled green by 2020' says SEB's Flensborg

    28 October 2015

    Green bond pioneer Christopher Flensborg has predicted that the asset class will account for up to a fifth of all bond issuance between now and the end of the decade.

  • Green bond comment: August's milestones and the promise of a golden autumn

    26 August 2015

    August was not a big month in terms of green bond issuance but the market continued to take important steps along the road to maturity, while participants are becoming increasingly excited about the prospect of a golden autumn, says Peter Cripps.

  • Green bond market still on-track for record-breaking year, says SEB

    24 August 2015

    The green bond market is on track for another record-breaking year, according to SEB, although it conceded that its previous estimate of $70 billion of issuance now looks "a bit optimistic".