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KfW adds biodiversity as it launches €13bn green bond programme for 2024
07 December 2023KfW has added biodiversity to its green bond framework as the German development bank aims to raise up to €13 billion ($14 billion) from its green-labelled issuance in 2024.
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KfW eyes currency diversification ahead of 'busy weeks' for green bond programme
18 August 2023German development bank KfW is hoping to achieve further currency diversification as it rounds off its €10 billion ($10.9 billion) programme for 2023.
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KfW targeting €10bn green bond issuance in 2023
19 December 2022KfW plans to raise a further €10 billion ($10.6 billion) from green bonds in 2023, after the German development bank reached a $65 billion cumulative issuance total in 2022.
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KfW plans €10bn green bond issuance in 2022 after record 2021
21 December 2021Following guidance-busting issuance in 2021 and an expanded green bond framework, KfW's Petra Wehlert tells Ahren Lester that expectations are high that it will surpass its 2022 green bond forecast
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KfW expects to 'significantly' exceed 2021 green bond issuance target
22 September 2021German development bank KfW expects to "significantly" exceed its targeted green bond issuance total in 2021..
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KfW plans to raise €10bn from green bonds in 2021
16 December 2020German development bank KfW is planning to issue up to €10 billion ($12.1 billion) in green bonds in 2020, after raising a record €8.3 billion in 2020, and proposes achieving a net-zero emissions loan portfolio by 2050.
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Green bond comment, November: Time is ripe for sovereigns to finally step up
04 November 2020Sovereign green bonds experienced a bumper September, with several new issuers, but Ahren Lester argues other hesitant sovereigns should step-up ahead of COP26 next year to light up this potentially significant market
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KfW on track for €8bn in 2020 green bond issuance
26 October 2020After a significant jump in green bond issuance in 2019, the KfW capital markets head tells Ahren Lester they still expect 2020 issuance to hit €8 billion and that 'greeniums' have persisted - but don't expect any social or sustainability-linked bonds from the development bank.
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ESG in Fixed Income Europe, featuring Green Bonds
03 July 2019Nearly 400 delegates attended the conference, now in its ninth year`
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KfW green bonds price tighter in the secondary market
01 July 2019Bonds issued by German development bank KfW appear to trade at a slight premium to their vanilla counterparts, Environmental Finance's ESG and Fixed Income conference heard.