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Landmark Slovenian social bond sends 'Samurai' sustainable bond market to record highs

Slovenia has raised JPY50 billion ($345 million) from a dual-tranche Japanese yen-denominated social bond, which is the first 'Samurai' social bond issued by a sovereign.

Global biodiversity metric being developed by engineering giant

Danish engineering giant Ramboll is developing an open-source global biodiversity metric to help standardise assessments and improve reporting.

Hard for recycling companies to be 'commercially successful', warns BNP Paribas

Financing and adoption challenges means recycling companies will find it hard to be commercially successful, BNP Paribas Asset Management has warned, adding that companies with "good technologies" are still failing.

Transition plans can help dispel malaise in sustainable finance markets, ESMA says

More widespread publication of credible climate transition plans could drive "broader willingness to invest in transitioning firms", in the face of a drop-off in allocations to European sustainability-themed funds, according to the EU's securities markets regulator.

FTSE 100 companies targeted by investor demand for 'say on climate' plans

Australia's prudential regulator to 'raise expectations' on climate risk management

AI and biodiversity top engagement priorities for Federated Hermes

Dutch pension fund selects Kempen for €195m mandate

INVL-backed engineering business launches €8m public bond offering

BaFin backs replacing SFDR Articles 8 and 9, defining transition investments

Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has backed the creation of three product designations to address investor misuse of the existing Articles 8 and 9 as labels in the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).