NatWest: Biodiversity-linked sovereign SLBs could be 'powerful'

More sovereign sustainability-linked bond (SLBs) issuances could include targets related to biodiversity…

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Mirova launches two sustainable bond funds

Mirova has launched two 'dark green' bond funds.

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SLB step-ups have almost no correlation with credit quality - Fitch

Sustainable Fitch has found "almost no correlation" between an issuer's credit rating and the typical…

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TNC blue bond programme aims to raise $10bn by 2030

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Bond round-up: Belgium, IBRD, Anglo American, Knorr-Bremse, CHIMEI ... and more

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Uruguay readies 'game-changing' sovereign sustainability-linked bond

Uruguay has published its framework for a 'game-changing' sovereign sustainability-linked bond (SLB),…

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S&P slashes 2022 sustainable bond forecast by 40%

S&P Global Ratings now forecasts $865 billion will be raised through sustainable bonds in 2022, which…

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Onshore Chinese green bonds pose challenge for international investors, says HKMA

Onshore green bonds in mainland China are "difficult" for international investors to fit into their sustainability…

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Bond round-up: IDA, AfDB, FS Italiane, Enel, CDP, Belgium, Union Pacific ... and more

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New Zealand readies sovereign green bond debut

New Zealand has launched its sovereign green bond programme after publishing its green bond framework,…

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Nordea issues innovative 'sustainability-linked loan' bond

Nordic lender Nordea Bank has raised $400 million from a bond to support its sustainability-linked loan…

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Sovereign sustainability-linked debt initiative launched

A World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB)-backed initiative to "catalyse" sovereign sustainability-linked…

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Fitch launches 'first' extensive leveraged finance ESG scores

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Bond round-up: Italy, Germany, Orsted, Intesa Sanpaolo, Singapore PUB ... and more

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Moody's proposes transfer of SPO business to credit rating unit

Moody's has proposed to transfer its sustainable finance second-party opinion (SPO) business to its credit…

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HSBC: COP15 will see more green bonds focus on biodiversity

Green bonds will increasingly focus on biodiversity as a result of the forthcoming biodiversity COP,…

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Corporate green bond fund launched

A European corporate green bond fund has been launched, with seed funding from a pension fund.

Debt,Green Bonds

Bond round-up: ING, ESRF, Clairant, Compartamos Banco...

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Affirmative to be integrated into MetLife following acquisition

Sustainability bonds specialist Affirmative Investment Management (AIM) has been bought by the asset…

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Shrinking sovereign greenium 'can no longer be taken for granted'

Worsening market liquidity is shrinking the size of the 'greenium' for sovereign, sub-sovereign, supranational…

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