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  • SMBC Americas sustainable finance head leaves

    09 July 2025

    Aaron Franklin has left his role as head of sustainable finance at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) Americas.

  • Sustainable debt round-up: Poland, Slovenia, Zelestra ... and more

    09 July 2025

  • Video: Impact Investment Exchange's Natasha Garcha on the future of SLLBs in Asia

  • Sustainable Fitch: EM bonds perform best on impact metrics

    08 July 2025

    Sustainability bonds from emerging market issuers outperform their developer market counterparts on impact performance, despite disclosing less information, research from Sustainable Fitch found.

  • EIB: GCF investment 'significant boost' to Global Green Bond Initiative

    07 July 2025

    The Green Climate Fund's (GCF) investment in the Global Green Bond Initiative (GGBI) will boost "its strong potential to help countries mobilising climate finance at scale", according to the European Investment Bank (EIB).

  • Australian Taxonomy-linked sustainable bond guidance expected by early 2026

    03 July 2025

    The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) expects to publish dedicated guidance for using the Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy in labelled sustainable bond transactions by early 2026 at the latest.

  • Côte d'Ivoire launches 'bold' sovereign sustainability-linked debt framework

    03 July 2025

    Côte d'Ivoire has published its sustainability-linked finance framework, preparing the ground to become the first sub-investment grade sovereign issuer of the target-based instrument.

  • IDB, World Bank launch 'Amazonia Bond' programme with $1bn deal plan

    02 July 2025

    The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced plans to raise $1 billion from a debut 'Amazonia Bond' after it launched a new sustainable bond issuance platform focused on the Amazon with the World Bank.

  • GCF approves anchor investment in €3bn public-private EM green bond fund

    02 July 2025

    The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a €200 million ($235 million) anchor investment in a public-private emerging market (EM) green bond fund developed by the EU-led Global Green Bond Initiative (GGBI).

  • Sustainable debt round-up: BPIfrance, Snam, Aliro Group ... and more

    02 July 2025