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ICMA Principles: Climate Transition Finance Handbook gets its first update

06 Sep 2023

5 minute read
On June 22nd, International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) Principles released an updated version of the Climate Transition Finance Handbook (CTFH) – it’s first update since the ...

LMA’s update on GSSL principles and guidance: towards convergence with ICMA?

10 May 2023

6 minutes read
 
On Thursday 23rd February 2023, the Green Loan, Social Loan and Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles and related Guidance have been updated by the Loan Market Association (LMA), ...

ICMA’s newly released KPI registry to discipline SLB issuances

05 Aug 2022

1 - minute read
 
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...

The European Green Bond Standard: a future gold standard for green bond issuance?

30 Nov 2021

10-minute read
 
On 6 July 2021, the European Commission unveiled its Proposal for a Regulation on the European Green Bond Standard (EU GBS). Most of its requirements follow market practices. To b...

Saur has successfully issued its inaugural sustainability-linked bond of €950m

30 Sep 2021

1-minute read
 
On September 09th, 2021 Saur successfully completed its inaugural Sustainability-Linked Bonds with an issuance of EUR 950 million. With this transaction, the Group refinanced its d...

Repsol successfully issued its inaugural sustainability-linked bond

29 Jul 2021

2-minute read
 
Following November’s 2020 release of Repsol’s 2021-2025 Strategic Plan, on June 14, the company has presented its innovative, comprehensive, and overarching “Transition Financing F...

Verbund issues world’s first bond combining Use-of-Proceeds earmarking and KPI-linking mechanism

29 Apr 2021

4-minute read
 
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...

SLBs, a new era for sustainable bonds investors?

29 Mar 2021

3-minute read
 
The Sustainability-linked Bonds market undergoes a stepwise growth with 20 transactions totalling $8 billion of issuances in 2021 already. Is this the beginning of an exponential g...

Investors' views on Sustainability-Linked Bonds

01 Mar 2021

The Sustainability-Linked Bonds (SLBs) market is just emerging and already meets a strong success.
Natixis considers this segment to be extremely promising to support sustainable transitions in add...

German sovereign innovates with its Bund’s inaugural green twins

24 Sep 2020

The massive investors’ appetite for Green Bonds was once again illustrated with the German Federal government inaugural Green Bond issuance. The EUR6.5 bn German sovereign Green Bond transaction l...

Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles : a set of guidelines to help this new product thrive in integrity

29 Jul 2020

 
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 ...

Is Social Bond format / Principles fit for Covid-19 crisis related expenditures?

15 Apr 2020

SRI investors are reshaping their sustainability-themed investment strategies in facing the crisis, some of them specifying response to Covid-19 must be done in alignment with the SDGs. Issuers (ma...

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