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  • People Moves 15 April: Xpansiv, ISS, KPMG & more...

    15 April 2022

  • EU Green Bond Standard moves a step closer

    09 March 2020

    Final recommendations for an EU Green Bond Standard (GBS) have been published by the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance but their regulatory status will not be confirmed until the third quarter of this year.

  • Green bond index providers can help promote use of taxonomy, TEG member says

    22 August 2019

    Index providers have been encouraged to help the adoption of the proposed EU climate taxonomy, by a leading member of the group that helped devise it.

  • Moody's upsizes its 2019 green bond prediction to more than $200bn

    08 August 2019

    Moody's predicts green bond issuance to exceed $200 billion this year, following a record-breaking second quarter and first half of the year. It had earlier predicted the market to hit $200 billion in 2019.

  • Green bond market should get a boost from proposed EU standards, say insiders

    18 June 2019

    Revised proposals for an EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS) from the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG) have been generally welcomed by market insiders.

  • Proposed green bond standard to 'safeguard' market growth

    18 June 2019

    The proposed EU green bond standard (EU GBS), released today, will 'safeguard' the growth of the green bond market by creating common and safe ground for issuance, delegates at Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income 2019 conference were told.

  • Green bond comment, June 2019: Three reasons to be cheerful

    05 June 2019

    There has been a flurry of good news from the green, social and sustainability bond market in recent months. Here are three reasons to be cheerful.

  • Green bond comment, April: A return to form

    03 April 2019

    After pausing for breath in 2018, the market for green, social and sustainability bonds surged again in the first quarter of this year.

  • Worries that green bond standard will stifle market are 'premature', says EU's TEG

    03 April 2019

    Fears that the EU's green bond standard will restrict the growth of the market are premature, according to Aila Aho, the rapporteur for the sub group that is devising proposals for the standard.

  • European Commission's TEG to issue first draft of taxonomy, and call for more experts

    28 November 2018

    A first draft of the EU's taxonomy of climate mitigation activities will be unveiled next week, probably on Tuesday.