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• ESG corporate bond ETFs have 'material exposure' to deforestation, says AFII

  03 April 2025

  Environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused corporate bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are "materially" invested in substantially deforestation-exposed issuers, according to a think tank -...

• Massive 'Kellanova bond' offers Mars investors 'significant impact potential'

  07 March 2025

  The $26 billion bond issuance by US confectionery and pet food firm Mars to finance its acquisition of cereal and snacks maker Kellanova offers investors the opportunity to "drive progress at pace" around sustainability impact, especially around deforestation commitments.

• 'Hard to justify' nature financing within fixed income

  06 March 2025

  Companies looking to finance their nature targets will face challenges with fixed income instruments, the Environmental Finance Natural Capital EMEA conference in London heard.

• Enel SLB target miss 'very significant event' for market

  24 April 2024

  The missed target tied to more than $10 billion worth of sustainability-linked bonds from Italian energy firm Enel has been described as showing the "value" of the performance-based instrument,...

• Enel SLB target miss 'to cost it $27m'

  24 October 2023

  Investors are not pricing in the expected Enel sustainability-linked bond (SLB) target miss at the end of 2023 which could trigger a coupon step-up for more than $10 billion worth of debt, according to the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII).

• Chile enhances its SLBs in latest issue, and promises more to come

  03 July 2023

  The return of Chile to the sustainability-linked bond (SLB) market has been praised for the addition of a more diverse target mix - becoming the first sovereign SLB issuer to include a gender target.

• Air France-KLM raises €1bn from landmark sustainability-linked bond

  10 January 2023

  Air France-KLM has raised €1 billion ($1.1 billion) from its debut sustainability-linked bond (SLB), believed to be the first Euro-denominated bond of this type in the public market from an airline.

• AFII: Milestone 'first' SLB step-up should give investors confidence

  30 November 2022

  The sustainability-linked bond (SLB) market has reached a milestone after the "first" step-up was triggered by PKN Orlen...

• ECB 'tilts' bond programme towards greener companies

  04 July 2022

  The European Central Bank (ECB) will favour greener companies for its corporate bond programme from October, it has said.

• AFII: Sell Euro carbon-intensive bonds ahead of ECB sell-off

  10 June 2022

  Investors have been urged to sell their euro-denominated corporate bond holdings in carbon-intensive firms ahead of an expected wind-down of the €340 billion ($364 billion) ...