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Sustainable finance

Green Enabling Projects eligibility framing by ICMA, and a first transaction with Vulcan

05 Nov 2024
13 min.

Introduction
To date, sustainable finance initiatives focused on climate change mitigation have understandably been focused on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...

Towards greater synergies between Sustainability-Linked Loans and the GSS Bond market

28 Oct 2024
12 min.

Introduction
In June of 2024, the Loan Market Association (LMA) and the Principles, supported by the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), joint...

Société des grands projets issues €1 billion with its new green framework aligned with EU Taxonomy Climate objectives

06 May 2024
6 min.

On February 10th, 2024, The Société des grands projets (formerly known as Société du Grand Paris) successfully issued a EUR 1 billion Green Bond, marking the...

2024 horizons

31 Jan 2024
19 min.

While it’s still time, the Green & Sustainable Hub (GSH) of Natixis CIB is delighted to present its best wishes for 2024 and share insights on the 5 majo...

Industrial bank of Korea (“IBK”) successfully issued a US$600m 5-year Gender Equality themed Social Bond with a focus on women empowerment

12 Dec 2023
5 min.

On September 21, 2023, the Industrial Bank of Korea issued a US$600m 5-year gender equality themed social bond. Natixis acted as Active Joint Bookrunner an...

Natixis acted as Co-Green Loan Coordinator for the first post-IRA large renewable energy transaction in the United States

12 Dec 2023
1 min.

IRG Acquisition Holdings (IRGAH), a partnership between Invenergy, a leading privately held developer, owner, and operator of sustainable energy solutions, C...

2023 Sustainability Linked Bond Principles Updates

12 Dec 2023
3 min.

Executive Summary
On June 26th, 2023, the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) issued an updated version of the Sustainability-Linked Bond Pr...

ICMA Principles: Climate Transition Finance Handbook gets its first update

07 Sep 2023
3 min.

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

Transition plan stocktaking from the NGFS

06 Sep 2023
5 min.

Around 42% of micro-prudential authorities worldwide have already started or plan to engage with financial institutions on transition plans, says a recent re...

Commercial Bank of Dubai’s inaugural $500mn 5-yr Green Bond issuance

05 Sep 2023
3 min.

Commercial Bank of Dubai successfully returns to the senior unsecured $ bond market with its inaugural $500mn 5-yr Green Bond issuance. On Monday June 5th, t...

Social bonds: easy come and easy go?

10 May 2023
24 min.

The fate of Social Bonds was the topic of a panel at Environmental Finance’s ESG in Fixed Income event on April 17th. “Social bonds, could they die on our ...

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

10 May 2023
9 min.

On Thursday 23rd February 2023, the Green Loan, Social Loan and Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles and related Guidance have been updated by the Loan Mark...

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