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  • Environmental Finance launches ESG data guide

    22 July 2019

    Environmental Finance has launched its Guide to ESG data providers, detailing more than 100 products from the main ESG data companies from across the world.

  • Investors in alternative assets eye opportunities from the SDGs

    30 April 2019

    Almost 90% of investors in ’alternative’ assets such as real estate, infrastructure, private debt and hedge funds, expect the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to create new investment opportunities, a survey by LGT Capital Partners has found.

  • Xylem signs $800m sustainability-linked credit facility

    11 March 2019

    Global water technology company Xylem has signed an $800 million sustainability-linked senior unsecured revolving credit facility, which it claimed is one of the first sustainable improvement loans in the US.

  • Green bonds round-up, 6 February

    06 February 2019

    Bank of America has raised $500 million from what it said is the first social bond by a US bank.

  • BNP to launch voluntary carbon market tool

    11 December 2017

    A service to encourage investment in voluntary carbon offsetting projects is to be launched in mid-2018 by French bank BNP Paribas.

  • Mapping the SDGs

    11 December 2017

    Two years on from the launch of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, how are investors responding, asks Peter Cripps

  • BNP launches new ESG analysis service

    15 June 2016

    BNP Paribas Securities Services (BNPPSS) has launched a service to help institutional investors monitor the performance of their portfolios in terms of environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria.

  • World Bank to issue 100th green bond

    02 June 2015

    The World Bank is to issue its 100th green bond – an equity-linked note for retail investors in the US.