Archive

  • HSBC moves closer to issuing green bonds, as it drafts framework

    20 November 2015

    HSBC has created a green bond framework ahead of its much-anticipated move into the issuing space, after years as a key underwriter in the market.

  • Two Swedish real estate firms each issue SEK500m green bonds

    28 August 2015

    Swedish municipal housing associations Stångåstaden and Uppsalahem have become the latest real estate firms to tap the green bond market after they both priced SEK500 million ($58 million) issues.

  • Green bond comment: August's milestones and the promise of a golden autumn

    26 August 2015

    August was not a big month in terms of green bond issuance but the market continued to take important steps along the road to maturity, while participants are becoming increasingly excited about the prospect of a golden autumn, says Peter Cripps.

  • Aligera added to Nasdaq Sustainable Bond list after acquiring Cicero second opinion

    24 August 2015

    Swedish renewable investment company Aligera has acquired a second opinion on its SEK500 million ($60.4 million) corporate bond, in a move that allowed it to be added to Nasdaq Stockholm's Sustainable Bond list.

  • Gothenburg's third green bond 'heavily oversubscribed'

    24 June 2015

    The City of Gothenburg has this week issued its third green bond.

  • Gothenburg names SEB lead bookrunner in third green bond

    19 June 2015

    The City of Gothenburg has mandated SEB as sole lead bookrunner for a six-year SEK-denominated green bond, plans for which were announced by Environmental Finance earlier this year.

  • SEK inaugural $500m green bond is first from a European export credit institution

    18 June 2015

    Sweden's Export Credit Institution (SEK) revealed that it has successfully priced its first $500 million green bond.

  • Green bonds 'can help achieve $100bn climate finance goal'

    11 June 2015

    Green bonds have been named one of the four instruments available to financial institutions to help ramp climate finance up to its $100 billion a year target.

  • $214 million green bond launched by Swedish municipality

    26 May 2015

    A Swedish municipality issued its second green bond last week, in a SEK1.8 billion ($214 million) deal.

  • Latvian utility to issue 'dark green' bond

    26 May 2015

    A Baltic utility is the latest to announce plans to tap the green bond market.