Investors

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Evaluation by investors of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices before investing or financing a company has become mainstream. The banking sector is no exception ...

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Introduction
In our July 2022 article entitled, “ESG integration in private debt, challenges and opportunities”, we discussed the rise of the private debt market in recent years a...

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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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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.
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Natixis Green & Sustainable Hub has conducted a survey to capture investors' considerations regarding Sustainability-Linked Term Loan B. 
In 2021, the Sustainability-linked ...

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Natixis Green & Sustainable Hub just launched a survey to capture investors' expectations regarding the ways Public Development Banks (PDBs) should address the United Nation’s...

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In July 2021, the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance[1] (GSIA) published its fifth Global Sustainable Investment Review (GSIR) biennial report[2]. GSIA was founded back in 2010...

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The Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Régulation (ACPR), the French banking and insurance supervisory body, released early May the results of its first pilot climate stress te...

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The year 2020 has witnessed a new record in terms of green funds growth as documented by two recently released reports by Environmental Finance and Novethic. The peak is of course ...

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The Climate Action 100+ (CA 100+) initiative has released its latest 2020 progress report on the actions undertaken by high-emitting industries, such as aviation, in order to reduc...

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Mid-February the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) announced the expansion of its Sustainable Bond Market by creating a so-called Transition Bond Sub-Segment, which is not defined...

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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...

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The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA), the Loan Market Association (LMA), together with the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), have released a joint guidance ...

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With the publication of its “Draft 2025 Target Setting Protocol”, the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance (NZAOA) provides a useful tool in the journey to fulfill its members’ commitme...

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In the wake of the Paris Agreement, a number of investors have made commitments to align their portfolios to net zero carbon goals. Several methodologies have emerged in the recent...

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Following last year devasting fires in the Amazon, there has been a growth in actions to halt deforestation among institutional investors, who are becoming increasingly aware of h...

As ESG investments are becoming mainstream, the market of impact investing is getting increasingly structured. Two recent initiatives have been set up recently to support impact data industrializa...

The Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance (NZAOA) recently issued a call for comment to respond to the urgent need to align carbon neutrality methodologies.
Launched in early 2019, the NZAOA gathers a s...