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ICMA 'best practice' sustainable commercial paper guidance 'positive step' for market
08 October 2024The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has published an initial "best practice" report on the growing €300 billion ($330 billion) sustainable commercial paper (CP) market, with hopes that the additional guidance can help stimulate greater interest in the instruments.
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ICMA sustainable commercial paper guidance expected in 2024
16 August 2024The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) is expecting to publish long-awaited guidance on issuing sustainable commercial paper (CP) by the end of 2024 as interest in the instrument grows.
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Sustainable bonds getting 'more explicit' and focused on usage plans
09 August 2024Sustainable bond issuers are getting more comfortable with being increasingly focused and explicit around their use-of-proceeds intentions as investor expectations evolve, according to NatWest.
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'Controversies' use in ESG ratings is 'tricky and underdiscussed'
29 July 2024The reporting of specific cases of sustainability "controversies" by environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings providers is challenging for companies to manage, ...
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'Next gen' EU GBS frameworks 'really need to go into the weeds,' says NatWest
25 July 2024The "next generation" of green bonds incorporating the EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS) requirements will demand "significant effort" from issuers that could slow the progress in developing frameworks and then issuing bonds under the landmark standard, according to NatWest.
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NatWest: Investors 'increasingly' asking for blue and nature bond deals
22 July 2024Investors are increasingly asking NatWest to specifically bring nature-focused and 'blue' bond deals to market, but despite being "meaningful" themes in the sustainable bond market they are still not effectively being pointed out.
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NatWest: SLBs 'evolving' despite volatile global economy
29 September 2022The sustainability-linked bond (SLB) market will continue to evolve as it diversifies to include issuers in previously underrepresented sectors, despite a volatile macro backdrop, an executive at NatWest bank has said.
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NatWest: Biodiversity-linked sovereign SLBs could be 'powerful'
27 September 2022More sovereign sustainability-linked bond (SLBs) issuances could include targets related to biodiversity or natural capital, to build on growing momentum around the topic, an executive at NatWest bank has said.
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Green is Good
22 August 2018Times are a-changin' in the bond market. Companies with strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings stand to have privileged access to the capital markets. A universal 'green treasury' approach is needed to reap the economic and social rewards, says Arthur Krebbers
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Studies confirm pricing benefits to green bond issuers
05 February 2018Issuing green bonds can raise the price of a company's entire debt in the secondary market, according to research by NatWest Markets.