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• Amundi 'very surprised' ICMA and EU GBS don't align

  03 April 2025

  Amundi has told an Environmental Finance panel it was "very surprised" that the EU did not align its Green Bond Standard (GBS) with the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) Green Bond Principles.

• Sustainable Debt EMEA returns to London next week

  27 March 2025

  Environmental Finance's 13th annual Sustainable Debt EMEA conference returns to London on 3 April.

• Investors have 'strong preference' for Capex over Opex in sustainable bonds

  17 July 2024

  Fixed income investors still have a "strong preference" for sustainable bonds focused on capital expenditure (Capex) rather than operational expenditure (Opex), according to a survey by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA).

• New ICMA metrics could help 'accelerate' biodiversity finance

  01 July 2024

  An influential list of key performance indicators (KPIs) deemed appropriate for structuring sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) has been updated - with the newly added metrics dominated by biodiversity-related datapoints, reflecting keen investor interest in the theme.

• ICMA Principles to publish whitepaper on SLB 'best practices'

  26 June 2024

  The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) working group on sustainability-linked bonds will publish a paper on the "best practices" in the market after ascertaining a "clearer idea" of how to improve the instrument.

• ICMA, LMA release 'sustainability-linked loan bond' guidance

  25 June 2024

  Two debt industry bodies have jointly published guidance for the issuance of bonds dedicated to financing sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) in order to develop a new sustainable finance product and support the credibility of the performance-based lending instrument.

• Disclosure data checklist among ICMA SLB Principles updates

  25 June 2024

  The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has published an updated version of the Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles (SLBP) which includes a new disclosure data checklist intended to "harmonise" and strengthen disclosures for the performance-based instrument.

• Amundi launches short-term corporate green bond fund

  01 July 2022

  French asset manager Amundi has launched a €178 million ($216 million) green bond fund focused on short-term European corporate issues.

• SLBs without 1.5֯ C targets 'don't hold water'

  24 November 2021

  Investors and underwriters disagree about what makes a good sustainability-linked bond, writes Madeleine Jenkins

• ESG in Fixed Income Global Series - Sustainability-Linked Products and Social Bonds roundup

  22 June 2021

  Environmental Finance's Sustainability-Linked Products and Social Bonds day - the third of six events in the ESG in Fixed Income Global Series of conferences - ended after two days of panels, presentations and speed networking sessions.