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SLBs: 'Flight to quality' amid complexity challenge could be a positive
12 February 2025The underappreciated complexity of the sustainability-linked bond (SLB) has played a major role in the issuance decline in recent years, but...
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Webinar: Vague definition of greenwashing deters 'transition' finance
29 October 2024The growth of 'transition' finance is being held back by fears among debt issuers of being accused of greenwashing - a situation exacerbated by national regulators failing to clearly define what constituted greenwashing, a webinar hosted by Environmental Finance heard.
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ICMA: Sustainability-linked commercial paper 'existentially challenging - but exciting'
15 October 2024The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) hopes its observations on the difficulties in identifying "best practice" on structuring sustainability-linked commercial paper (CP) will help focus the market on how to get the "existentially challenging" product viable at scale.
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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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Ground-breaking 'Transition Loan Principles' expected by November
03 July 2024With formal principles on the horizon, the 'transition loan' market could be on the cusp of a new era - a dramatic step-change that could extend into the bond market. Ahren Lester reports
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Disclosure data checklist among ICMA SLB Principles updates
25 June 2024The 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.
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ICMA publishes innovative 'green enabler' sustainable bond guidance
25 June 2024The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has published "ground-breaking" guidance for financing 'green enabling' projects in sustainable bonds amid issuer caution in using these critical transition projects in green finance instruments.
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ICMA draws up a 'Common Ground Taxonomy' for transition plans
26 February 2024The influential trade association wants issuer to act on transition plans before regulations arrive, and has provided a high-level tool to get the process started. Ahren Lester reports
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ICMA encourages 'early adoption' of transition plans as it unveils framework
19 February 2024The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has encouraged the "early adoption" of transition plans by companies, publishing a report which identifies three types of transition and provides an integrated transition plan framework.
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Hong Kong to form ESG code of conduct working group
01 November 2023A group is to be established to promote a "globally consistent" code of conduct for ESG ratings and data providers in Hong Kong.