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Loan round-up: FS Italiane, Epic, Philijalinna ... and more
20 June 2024 -
EU GBS 'not overly costly' for leading utility green bond issuers, says IEEFA
20 June 2024Major European utility sector issuers of green bonds should not find it "overly costly" to switch to issuing EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS)-compliant bonds to use the landmark legislation to demonstrate their "better management of transition risk", according to a think tank.
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Indosuez launches €70m fixed-maturity green bond fund
19 June 2024Indosuez Wealth Management has launched a €70 million ($75 million) actively managed green bond fund with a fixed maturity of 2028.
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EU Green Bond Standard is 'quite tricky' - especially for sovereigns, says CA-CIB
18 June 2024Issuing green bonds using the EU Green Bond Standard (GBS) is "quite tricky" and is unlikely to see a lot of issuance except among a "handful" of issuers in the near term, according to Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank (CA-CIB).
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Heidelberg Materials raises €700m from ground-breaking green bond
18 June 2024 -
US IRA set to stimulate $250bn of investment this year, says Barclays
17 June 2024More than $70 billion has been invested in clean energy projects backed by the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the first three months of 2024, as manufacturing investments ramp up, according to Barclays.
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GSAM backs SLBs with step-downs
17 June 2024A major sustainable bond investor has urged investors and asset owners to seriously consider sustainability-linked bonds (SLB) with a step-down coupon on achieving or outperforming targets, as it is a "better structure" for the performance-based instrument.
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Issuers should 'use more Opex in green bonds,' says GSAM
17 June 2024Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) said green bond issuers should look to use more operational expenditures (Opex) in their use-of-proceeds allocation to help grow the market.
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Emerging market sustainable bond investment momentum building
14 June 2024Investors and issuers are responding to the challenges EM sustainable bonds pose, and the tide is turning in their favour. Ahren Lester reports
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Qatar Central Bank publishes 'important' financial sector sustainability strategy
13 June 2024The Qatar Central Bank (QCB) has published its sustainability strategy for the financial sector, which includes plans to develop a sustainable taxonomy and guidelines for sustainable debt instruments - including sukuk.