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MUFG, Doha Bank sign first Middle Eastern 'green repo' deal
11 September 2024MUFG and Doha Bank have finalised the first 'green repo' scheme signed in the Middle East, with the transaction using green bonds as the underlying collateral.
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MSCI: 'Striking' rise of climate adaptation in utility green bonds
11 September 2024MSCI said there has been a "striking increase" in the prominence of climate adaptation projects in green bonds from the utility sector, as attention focuses on strengthening transmission assets to extreme weather.
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Sri Lanka's DFCC launches 'pivotal' LKR2bn green bond
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KfW raises £750m from green bond in 'difficult' market
10 September 2024KfW has raised £750 million ($980 million) from its largest sterling-denominated green bond since 2022, with the deal attracting a 'greenium' despite the "difficult" fixed income market conditions.
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SEB: 'Higher expectations' developing for SLBs
09 September 2024"Higher expectations" are developing around European sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs), in particular around Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets, according to SEB.
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Mongolian drinks firm MCS Coca-Cola signs debut sustainability-linked loan
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DNB 'hopes others will follow' its transition loan framework
09 September 2024The Norwegian bank's framework is an "important step" to make it easier for its clients to understand its expectations around 'transition loans', Nina Ahlstrand and Morten Knutzen tell Ahren Lester
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Pearson issues second £350m 'education' social bond
06 September 2024Publishing and services firm Pearson has raised £350 million ($460 million) from its second education-focused social bond, helping alleviate a lack of sterling-denominated sustainable bond supply.
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NIB raises €750m from record green bond
05 September 2024The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has raised €750 million ($830 million) from its largest ever green bond in the first deal since it updated its framework.
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'Water will be one of the biggest investment themes over the next decade'
05 September 2024Swedish lender SEB said that water is going to be a megatrend which should be the "biggest investment theme over the next decade," but we need to work out how to tailor sustainable finance instruments.
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Sustainable bond issuance falls 20% amid corporate, sovereign slump
15 April 2025Sustainable bond issuance volumes have fallen by more than a fifth in the first quarter of 2025 compared with the year prior, after corporate and sovereign issuance slumped by 40%.
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NZBA ditches requirement to target 1.5°C alignment to give banks more 'flexibility'
15 April 2025The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) has approved changes to its framework to no longer require targeting 1.5°C alignment - instead allowing members to choose from "a wider range of net-zero pathways ... to limit global temperature rise to 'well below 2°C' and to strive for 1.5°C".
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Nature based solutions: The opportunity for renewable energy investors
15 April 2025Embedding nature based solutions alongside renewables can unlock additional revenues from ecosystem services, write Hing Kin Lee and Valeria Ramos
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Franklin Templeton launches two ESG-focused ETFs
15 April 2025Franklin Templeton has added two sustainability-focused index-tracking exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to its range.
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RMS to pilot ecosystem integrity index later this year
15 April 2025Forestry and timberland investor Resource Management Service (RMS) is to pilot an ecosystem integrity index developed by RSK Wilding later this year.