Green bond

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Executive Summary
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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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 Sole Bookrunner and Sole Green Structurer for the issuance of EUR750 million in Senior non preferred Green Bond devoted to sustainable agriculture, a first in E...

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The European Commission recently shared the long-awaited draft of the Taxonomy criteria for nuclear and gas with Member States and the Platform on Sustainable Finance[1]. The t...

Until recently, the lack of available, reliable, and comparable data for HY corporates has delayed the incorporation of ESG factors in the HY bond asset class. However, according to S&P, from t...

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Verbund, an Austrian leading electricity company (Baa1/BBB+), has issued in March 2021 the first Bond combining both Green Use-of-Proceeds (Green Bond) and Sustainability Key Perfo...

 
On June 9, 2020, the International Capital Market Association (ICMA)’s Green & Social Bond Principles published a new set of voluntary process guidelines for the debt capital market related ...

Editorial
To implement its Sustainable Finance Action Plan, the European Commission mandated a Technical Expert Group to come forward with a standard for green bonds. This EU Green Bond Standard (...