-
Impact bonds to benefit from 'favourable' regulatory landscape in 2024, Insight Investment predicts
05 March 2024Impact bonds should benefit from a "more favourable" interest rate environment in 2024, as the market and regulatory landscape matures, predicted David McNeil, head of responsible investment research at Insight Investment.
-
Phasing out fossil fuels requires new transition-away products, says Natixis
01 March 2024Innovative financial tools and products are needed to 'transition away' from fossil fuels and exit 'brown' activities, said Natixis CIB.
-
Bond round-up: Canada, Dubai Islamic Bank, Tui ... and more
28 February 2024 -
ICMA working group considering including avoided emissions in bond, loan principles
28 February 2024The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has set up a working group to consider including 'avoided emissions' in principles for sustainability bonds and loans.
-
Tanzanian water authority issues 'historic' green bond
26 February 2024Tanga Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Authority (Tanga UWASA) has issued a TZS53.1 billion ($21 million) 'water green bond,' which is believed to be the first municipal agency sustainable bond issuance in East Africa
-
AFII: PPC target 'turnaround' shows 'strength of SLBs'
22 February 2024Greece's Public Power Corporation (PPC) is on "back on track" to meet its next sustainability-linked bond (SLB) target, despite missing an earlier one - which the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII) said shows the positive incentive that the performance-based instrument provides issuers.
-
Bond round-up: Japan, Verizon, MuniFin ... and more
21 February 2024 -
S&P: US REIT green bond issuance plummets in 2023
21 February 2024Green bond issuance by US real estate investment trusts (REITs) plummeted to just 3.6% of the market in 2023, down from around 18% in both 2022 and 2021.
-
EU GBS could bring transparency but lacks guidance, IEEFA claims
20 February 2024The upcoming European Green Bond Standard lacks guidance on standardised impact reporting, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis has claimed.
-
'Big four' sustainable finance SPO providers emerge in 2023
20 February 2024Sustainalytics, S&P Global Ratings, ISS and Moody's have emerged as the 'big four' second-party opinion (SPO) providers in the sustainable finance market in 2023, but the race for market share has tightened as the sector matures and consolidates.