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Executive SummaryPursuant to its climate action roadmap released in 2021 (see our July 2021 article “European Central Bank’s historic pledge on climate”)[1], the ECB announced...

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Sustainable finance has become mainstream and gained traction in most debt market segments, including the rising private debt market. Global investment in private debt exceeded ...

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On June 28th 2022, at the occasion of its Annual General Meeting, the ICMA Green Bond Principles published an “illustrative KPI Registry”.
As it faced some criticism regarding t...

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Recent climate stress test results from the European Central Bank[1] and Bank of England[2] provide a window on the challenges banks face in preparing for cli...

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The vote in the European Parliament was expected to be tight as a cross-party coalition from the left to center-right was opposing the taxonomy complementary delegated act on nu...

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The EU-China Common Ground Taxonomy (CGT) has received plenty of attention from international capital markets and policymakers since its initial release in November 2021. Some As...

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On May 25th, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed changes to rules and reporting forms to establish disclosure requirements for funds and...

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The Platform’s March 2022 recommendations on extending the Taxonomy [1] are timely and meaningful but unlikely to be politically endorsed [2]. Nonetheless, market participants mu...

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Natixis acted as Joint Bookrunner for the issuance of a long 15yr Inaugural Green Inflation- Linked Bond for the Republic of France [1]
On May 25th, France treasury (Agence Franc...

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Proposed by the European Commission on July 6th, 2021[1], the final negotiation phase of the European Green Bond Standard (EU GBS) has begun but several conten...

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On March 21st, 2022, the American financial watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), proposed rule changes that would require registrants [1] to ...

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The non-objection period to blockade the Complementary Delegated Act (CDA) on gas and nuclear [1] presented on February 2nd, 2022, will expire by August 2022.
N...

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The war in Ukraine is feeding the inflationary spiral. If the second half of 2021 was marked by inflation prompted by the global success of stimulus plans to recover from the pan...

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On March 30th, 2022, the Platform on Sustainable Finance (hereafter PSF or the Platform) published its final report containing technical screening criteria (TSC) for the four rem...

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Natixis acted as Global Coordinator and Green Structuring Advisor and active Bookrunner for the issuance of €500 million inaugural Green Bond.
On Thursday 14th April, SCI Lamarti...

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Natixis acted as Global Coordinator and Sole Green Structurer for the issuance of EUR 2.6 bn triple tranches Green Bond devoted to refinance part of Suez acquisition , the largest...

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Natixis acted as Global Coordinator and Sustainability Structuring Advisor for Sanofi’s inaugural sustainability-linked bond issuance.
On Wednesday March 30th, Sanofi, the French...

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Natixis acted as Global Coordinator and Sole Sustainability Structuring Advisor for the issuance of €750 million inaugural Sustainability-Linked Bond.
On Thursday March 31st,  P...