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German regulator launches sustainable fund guidelines consultation
05 August 2021German financial regulator BaFin is consulting on minimum requirements for 'sustainable' funds after criticising some applications from managers...
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Green and sustainability-linked loan round-up: Prudential Financial, KPN, Adamo, Nabiax ... and more
05 August 2021 -
Bond round-up: Ontario, Scotiabank, Aydem, NRW.Bank, Mann+Hummel ... and more
04 August 2021 -
ECB market neutrality strategy review 'disappointing'
04 August 2021The European Central Bank (ECB) has been criticised for a lack of urgency in its review of the 'market neutrality' principle...
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Moody's launches UN Global Compact alignment tool
03 August 2021Moody's ESG Solutions has launched a screening tool for investors to evaluate the alignment of companies
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Foresight renewable energy fund exceeds fundraise cap
02 August 2021Infrastructure investment manager Foresight raised the maximum size of its Europe-focused renewable energy fund and extended the fundraise period after investor demand sent capital commitments past the initial target.
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BlackRock launches its first ESG equity hedge fund
23 July 2021BlackRock has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused long-short equities
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'Green' money market fund growth faces 'significant' challenges
23 July 2021The emergence of an entirely 'green' money market fund (MMF) is currently unfeasible due to "significant implementation challenges" around lack of sufficiently diversified investment supply, according to Fitch Ratings, despite rising demand for such instruments.
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Green and sustainability-linked loan round-up: Sydney Light Rail, Raben, Aligned ... and more
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Bank of Japan climate change loan facility 'credit positive' for banks
22 July 2021The climate change loan facility to be extended to lenders by the Bank of Japan (BoJ) is "credit positive" for Japanese banks...
- Q2 issuance puts market on track for weakest year since 2022
- AI, data centres primed to drive sustainable bond volumes and innovation
- FSB could drop climate work amid 'US pushback'
- TNFD 'concerned' about EU reporting delays leaving nature risk 'invisible'
- Disappointment as UK abandons plans for green taxonomy
- TNFD proposes CSRD nature data consolidation
- Nature finance: building on lessons learnt from climate
- Nine banks in ECB's crosshairs for fines after failing to meet sustainability expectations
- NGFS publishes transition planning recommendations for financial institutions
- 'Walking the walk on decarbonisation' can lead to higher borrowing costs, finds MSCI
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DFIs, MDBs must lead way on creating modular finance structures for blended finance, says CISL
18 July 2025Realising the potential of blended finance requires aggregation of deals, data improvement and financial innovation, according to a report from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).
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Banks face 'static' issuer engagement on sustainable bonds as caution consolidates
18 July 2025Sustainable bond markets have been facing issuer inertia as existing and new issuers reconsider the role of labelled instruments in their financing deals, according to a senior sustainable banker.
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UBP begins using AI nature metrics to inform biodiversity engagements
18 July 2025The asset management arm of Union Bancaire Privée has begun using AI-informed nature data to fuel biodiversity engagements with public companies, Environmental Finance understands.
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Thailand's future SLBs could address gender and biodiversity
18 July 2025Gender and biodiversity could be integrated into the next phase of Thailand's ground-breaking sovereign SLBs, Karas Boonruang tells Ahren Lester
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GSAM: LatAm excelling on EM sustainable bond robustness
18 July 2025Latin American (LatAm) sustainable bond markets are currently outperforming other emerging markets (EMs) for the robustness of their frameworks and innovation, according to Goldman Sachs Investment Management (GSAM).