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  • Sustainable bond market share declines amid 'opportunistic' issuance trend

    08 August 2024

    The decline in bond market share for sustainable bond in 2024 has been primarily driven by issuers trying to get to market quickly with deals rather than waning interest in sustainable bonds, according to Moody's.

  • Minority of sustainability-linked loan frameworks are 'high quality,' says Moody's

    31 July 2024

    Moody's said a minority of the dedicated sustainability-linked loan (SLL) frameworks it has reviewed were judged to be high quality in terms of their metrics and targets set - in stark contrast to their bond equivalents.

  • Moody's: 'Stark difference' in debut sustainable bond issuers entering market in 2024

    30 July 2024

    There has been a "quite dramatic" decline in new issuers entering the sustainable bond market in 2024 as issuers take longer to move from formulating frameworks to executing deals ...

  • Moody's maintains 2024 sustainable bond forecast despite strong start

    03 May 2024

    Moody's has retained its $950 billion sustainable bond issuance forecast for 2024 despite a strong start to the year amid expectations that challenging fixed income conditions will continue to be headwind for the market to reach a new record.

  • Sustainable bonds to top $1.35trn in 2022, says Moody's

    31 January 2022
  • Moody's forecasts $1trn sustainable bond issuance in 2021

    27 October 2021

    Moody's ESG Solutions forecasts that green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bond issuance in 2021 will reach the $1 trillion milestone...

  • Green bond comment, December: Investors in Mexico airport bond adopt brace position!

    06 December 2018

    Moody's has downgraded its Green Bond Assessment (GBA) on the $6 billion of bonds from Mexico City Airport Trust, from GB1 (the top score) to GB5 (the bottom score).

  • Green bond round-up, 13 June 2018

    13 June 2018

    DNB Boligkreditt, a subsidiary of Norwegian bank DNB, has raised €1.5 billion ($1.76 billion) from its first green covered bond.