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Social surge helps 2020 sustainable bond issuance to double
29 January 2021After a record-breaking $600 billion sustainable bond issuance in 2020 in which diversification beyond green bonds gathered pace, expectations are high that the momentum will be carried into 2021. Ahren Lester reports
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Sustainable bond market could hit $725bn in 2021, says CA-CIB
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Sustainability-linked Bond Principles mark new era for bond market
09 June 2020A set of Sustainability-linked Bond Principles (SLBP) was launched today, in a landmark move that is expected to kickstart a new market of labelled bond issuance that will "complement rather than act as an alternative" to the green bond market.
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HSBC named largest green, social and sustainability bond manager
10 February 2020HSBC became the largest green, social and sustainability (GSS) bond market underwriter in 2019, in a year marked by rapidly accelerating diversification of the market.
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EDF signs €4bn ESG-indexed revolving credit facility
28 November 2018French electricity utility EDF has signed a green revolving credit facility (RCF) worth €4 billion ($4.5 billion), for which the payments will depend on sustainability-related performance indicators.
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Crédit Agricole becomes leading green bond underwriter
29 January 2018Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank (CACIB) has seized the title of leading underwriter in the green bond market for 2017, after knocking its American rival Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) off the top spot.
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Train leasing company in world first green bond certification
18 January 2017Luxembourg-based train leasing firm Alpha Trains, has become the first company of its kind to have a private placement bond certified green, after it raised €250 million (€266.5 million) from the US market.
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UK Green Investment Bank in £250m waste-to-energy deal
24 December 2013The UK's Green Investment Bank has helped finance a £250 million waste-to-energy plant.
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Financial close reached for £760m UK waste-to-energy plant
28 November 2013A UK resource management company and its investment partners have signed a £760 million ($1.2 billion) contract with a waste authority for a waste-to-energy project.
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