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  • Nordea: An 'SLL bond' market could emerge 'very quickly'

    21 September 2022

    The Nordic bank believes its ground-breaking 'sustainability-linked loan bond' is poised to kick-start further issuance quickly, Jacob Michaelsen tells Ahren Lester

  • Video: Nordea's Jacob Michaelsen on the EU Platform Social Taxonomy

    06 June 2022
  • 'Historic' greenium for debut Denmark green bond

    21 January 2022

    The maiden DKK5 billion ($762 million) sovereign green bond issued by Denmark was more than four-times oversubscribed by investors,...

  • Denmark to issue debut 'twin' green bond in January

    08 December 2021

    Denmark has announced it will issue its debut sovereign green bond in January which will replicate the innovative 'twin bond' concept launched by Germany in 2020, as it kick-starts its green bond programme intending to raise up to NOK12 billion ($1.3 billion) in 2022.

  • Fannie Mae, Nordea join Green Bond Principles executive as ING, Kommunalbanken depart

    11 June 2021

    Fannie Mae and Nordea Bank have been elected to the executive committee (ExCom) that develops the Green Bond Principles (GBP)...

  • EU taxonomy removes agriculture and offers concession to gas

    24 March 2021
  • Head-to-head debate: Transition bonds

    13 November 2020

    Is a transition bond label still needed now that the Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles have been published?

  • ECB gives green light to sustainability-linked bonds

    23 September 2020

    The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced that sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) will be eligible as collateral and for its asset purchase programmes from 2021, delivering an important boost to the nascent asset class.

  • KPI-linked bonds webinar: Investors want 'Paris alignment'

    01 July 2020
  • Natural gas company publishes transition bond framework

    24 February 2020

    UK natural gas distribution network operator Cadent has published a framework for the issuance of potentially controversial transition bonds.