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  • ING: SLB market 'reinvigoration' awaits after initial 'exuberance' evaporates

    14 February 2025

    The contrasting experience of the sustainability-linked loan and bond issuance continued in 2024, but ING said more quality data and "realistic" target approaches should see loan market continue to grow and bonds to finally begin to reverse declines.

  • 'SLB issuers should use SBTi-validated targets', says LuxSE

    12 February 2025

    Sustainability-linked bond (SLB) issuers have been encouraged by Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) to use science-based targets to enhance the "credibility" of the issuances, ...

  • Sustainable debt round-up: KfW, CADES, Singtel ... and more

    12 February 2025
  • SLBs: 'Flight to quality' amid complexity challenge could be a positive

    12 February 2025

    The underappreciated complexity of the sustainability-linked bond (SLB) has played a major role in the issuance decline in recent years, but...

  • ING: CSRD struggles feeding 'exceptionally high' sleeping SLL activity

    12 February 2025

    ING saw an "exceptionally high" number of 'sleeping' sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) in 2024, as corporates struggled to deal with the forthcoming EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requirements.

  • 'Big four' SPO providers becomes 'big five' in 2024

    10 February 2025

    Japan-focused Rating and Investment Information (R&I) secured more than a 10% share of the sustainable finance second-party opinion market in 2024, joining the global 'big four' US providers led by Sustainalytics and S&P Global.

  • South Korea readies sovereign green bond market return in 2026

    06 February 2025

    South Korea is planning to issue a green bond in 2026 following investor engagement, according to a senior government official - five years after the sovereign was last active in the market.

  • 'SLBs can be the right tool for impact investing' urge investors

    06 February 2025

    Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) have the potential to be valuable impact investing tools and regulations in Europe could be building the right "home" for the performance-based instrument,...

  • We want the greenium to go away, says Amundi

    06 February 2025

    An Amundi fixed income specialist argued that green-labelled bonds should not attract a 'greenium'.

  • Ashmore plans $3bn EM impact debt fund

    06 February 2025

    Emerging markets-focused asset manager Ashmore plans to raise $3 billion for its first impact debt fund, a conference heard.