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Saudi Arabia raises €1.5bn from 'testing' debut sovereign green bond

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has issued its debut sovereign green bond with the €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) tranche the first euro-denominated sustainable bond from a Middle Eastern sovereign.

'SLBs can be the right tool for impact investing' urge investors

Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) have the potential to be valuable impact investing tools and regulations in Europe could be building the right "home" for the performance-based instrument,...

KEPCO drops sustainable bond label from US dollar issuance

South Korean utility firm Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) has launched its first US dollar-denominated bond transaction without a sustainable bond label in years,...

From COP to coop

While COP16 is important, it is also worth paying attention to a bond issue from a UK chicken producer, write Ulf Erlandsson and Trisha Hutchinson

A tale of two triple-tranche sustainable bonds

After two innovative sustainability-focused triple-tranche bond deals from Ahold Delhaize and EDF in recent months, the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII) argues the Dutch-Belgian supermarket chain ...

'Probably the most beautiful bond we have ever seen'

The Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII) has argued that sovereign issuers should develop a sustainability-linked bond (SLB) in twin-bond format, arguing this would "probably be the most beautiful bond we have ever seen".

Investors urged to vote against Sembcorp coal plant deal

The financial engineering behind Sembcorp's proposed sale of two coal-fired plants means the transaction is a "quick and dirty solution" to decarbonisation, and highlights the weaknesses of some sustainability-linked bond (SLB) structures, a think-tank has argued.

ECB 'tilts' bond programme towards greener companies

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

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) ...

NZAOA, AFII launch net-zero fixed income collaboration