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Instrument level granularity for ESG investments

S&P Global Market Intelligence's new Sustainability Pricing & Reference Data product seeks to provide investors and is available for global Government, Supranational, Agency, and Corporate (GSAC) bonds and with key information to facilitate investment and monitoring, including instrument screening, portfolio construction, compliance and reporting.

Quality is key to growth in sustainability-linked loans

Sustainability-linked loan (SLL) volumes have weakened since a surge in 2022. Moody's Ratings analysts Adriana Cruz Felix, Matthew Kuchtyak, and Jeffrey Sukjoon Lee explain why, sharing insights from Moody's Second Party Opinion portfolio and highlighting the path for resumed growth.

Unearthing ESG scores for leveraged finance

As investors widen the net of how ESG screening should be applied to different elements of their portfolio management criteria, Richard Jefferies and Marina Petroleka of Sustainable Fitch tell Environmental Finance why the firm has turned an ESG lens to the leveraged finance broadly syndicated loan market and what can be learned from their analysis.

Putting fund finance on a sustainable footing

Europe's private equity fund finance market is embracing sustainable finance techniques developed for labelled debt. SMBC Group's Natalya Tueva, Eleni Askianaki and Indira Masullo explain

Investors likely to pressure companies for high quality assurance, ICGN says

BBVA Colombia and IFC launch 'world's first' biodiversity bond

BBVA Colombia and the International Finance Corporation have issued the first tranche of a $70 million bond to address the drivers of biodiversity loss.

Environmental Finance publishes second Sustainable Loans Insight

Environmental Finance has published its Sustainable Loans Insight (SLI) 2024 report, the second edition of its free-to-read sustainable lending analysis and discussion report.

Is politics ignoring the climate-and-nature crisis?

Addressing both climate and nature is a business imperative, despite the deafening political silence, argues Andrew Coburn

Piecemeal rollback of sustainability rules more likely than review of CSRD, observers say

A full review of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) to reduce the reporting burden on corporates is unlikely, but a more politically conservative European Parliament could see a piecemeal rollback of regulations, a lawyer has said.

Climate change adaptation has 'picked up' in sustainable bond market

The identification of 'climate change adaptation' use-of-proceeds in sustainable bonds has "picked up" over the last couple of years, according to Environmental Finance Data (EF Data).