Damaso Zagaglia

Articles by Damaso Zagaglia

  • Green bond round-up, 20 September 2017

    20 September 2017

    Mexico City Airport Trust has returned to the green bond market with the biggest corporate issue to date – a two-tranche $4 billion bond – to finance what it claims will be the world's most sustainable airport.

  • SSE to price inaugural green bond

    30 August 2017

    Scottish energy company SSE, formerly known as Scottish and Southern Energy, is marketing its first green bond, hoping to raise €500 million ($600m).

  • French banks are en marche in July green bond underwriting table

    11 August 2017

    BNP Paribas emerged as the biggest green bond underwriter in July, as French banks continued their assault on the high-profile market in a bid to seize the bragging rights from their American rivals.

  • Taiwanese oil firm 'to jeopardise green bond market with dubious issue'

    04 August 2017

    Taiwanese state-owned oil refiner CPC Corporation is reportedly planning a green bond to finance the building of new gas plants that has the potential to undermine the credibility of the market.

  • Green bond funds poised to break through $2bn mark

    28 July 2017

    The value of green bond funds is fast approaching the $2 billion mark after a spate of launches in the past two years, analysis by Environmental Finance has revealed.

  • Manager of new green bond fund to be announced next month

    28 July 2017

    A French pension scheme is expected to announce a €350 million ($400 million) green bond fund in mid-August, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • Green Bond round-up, 26 July 2017

    26 July 2017

    IFC to issue first 'Kauri' New Zealand green bond

  • SEB issues first green bond

    13 February 2017

    Swedish giant Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has issued its first green bond, raising €500 million ($534 million).

  • China could issue $60bn of green bonds in 2017, says SynTao Green Finance

    25 January 2017

    China could issue as much as $60 billion of green bonds in 2017, including its first sovereign bonds, as the country looks to step up its climate leadership.

  • First muni green bond since US election

    23 November 2016

    The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is set to issue its third green bond, representing the first issuance by a US municipality since the Presidential elections on 8 November.