Graham Cooper

Articles by Graham Cooper

  • Trucost expands coverage of Japanese firms

    10 April 2018

    Environmental data and analysis firm Trucost has extended its coverage of the Japanese market to include more than 1,500 companies.

  • Banque de France calls for 'brown penalising factor'

    09 April 2018

    The idea of raising capital requirements on assets with high sustainability risks, by means of a so-called 'brown penalising factor', has won support from François Villeroy de Galhau, governor of the Banque de France.

  • Spanish infrastructure firm plans €750m issue of green notes

    05 April 2018

    ACS Servicios Comunicaciones y Energia (ACS SCE), a Spanish engineering and infrastructure company, plans to issue €750 million ($920 million) of green notes this month.

  • Green Bond Comment, March

    04 April 2018

    At least $28 billion of new green bonds were issued in the first three months of 2018, according to preliminary data from the Environmental Finance Green Bonds Database.

  • Green bond round-up, 4 April 2018

    04 April 2018

    Green bond round-up, 4 April 2018

  • 'Green Finance Centre' aims to strengthen UK-China links

    26 March 2018

    Co-operation between the UK and China on sustainability issues is to take a further step forward with the creation of a UK-China Green Finance Centre, funded by a mix of public and private sources.

  • Green bonds round-up, 21 March 2018

    21 March 2018

    The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) has priced its second 'social inclusion' bond. The €500 million ($614 million), seven-year bond carries a coupon of 0.375% and an issue price of 99.149%, giving a spread of 21 basis points below the mid-swaps rate.

  • Climate-related disclosure: a new dawn

    21 March 2018

    Numerous developments are helping to drive improvements in corporate reporting of non-financial issues and to raise investor expectations, says Adams Koshy.

  • UK-China group eyes overseas sales of green Chinese ABS

    21 March 2018

    Developing an international market in asset-backed securities (ABS) based on Chinese green loans is one of four priorities for the China-UK Green Finance Taskforce, said Ma Jun, chairman of China's Green Finance Committee (GFC).

  • Regulations likely to boost pricing of green bonds, say experts

    20 March 2018

    Regulatory pressure for improved disclosure of environmental risks and opportunities is likely to improve the pricing of green bonds relative to comparable non-green bonds, according to two market specialists.