Subscribe | Log In

Featured

Fixed income

Denmark Inaugurates EuGBS Market

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the explosion of green bond issuance in the late 2010s and early 2020s, the European Union passed the European Green...

A Slow But Steady Start to 2025

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the world continues to wobble amid geopolitical crises, trade wars and rising temperatures, fixed-income markets remain one of the main...

Poland Goes Green With New Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the issuance of Europe's first sovereign sustainability-linked bond (SLB) by Slovenia, the momentum remained in the sustainable fixed income market...

Finnfund Issues First Multi-Tranche and its Longest Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Finnfund, Finland's development finance institute and an impact investor, issued four tranches of green and sustainable bonds denominated in US dollars and...

ESMA Opens Second Consultation on EuGB External Reviewers

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has published a Consultation Paper on the...

Fixed Income in a Climate Transition Perspective

Where does fixed income sit in the climate transition investing toolbox?  Can sustainability truly be integrated within fixed-income strategies, are the appropriate data sources...

Heimstaden Bostad Issues SEK Green Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Heimstaden Bostad AB (publ) successfully issued a SEK850 million green senior unsecured floating rate notes at the start of February. This...

Enel Issues Triple SLB

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Despite the many woes plaguing ESG investing at the moment, sustainable bond issuance remains appealing to investors, with 2024 witnessing the...

Kåpan and Skandia Support Sustainable Farming

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In 2023, about 735 million people suffered from hunger, while nearly 700 million people continued to live in extreme poverty surviving...

Velliv Invests in Reforestation-Linked Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The World Bank (WB), via the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) issued a 9-year US$225 million, principal-protected Amazon Reforestation-Linked...

AFII Casts Doubts Over Seven SLBs

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Sustainability-linked Bonds (SLBs) have been a vehicle for the growth of sustainable finance since Italian utilities giant first issued such bond...

Kommuninvest Updates Green Bonds Framework

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On June 27th, Kommuninvest, Sweden's agency for municipalities' funding, published new terms for Green loans and an updated Green Bonds Framework,...

Elopak Issues its Inaugural Green Carton Bonds

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the publication of its Green Bond Framework, Elopak, a Norwegian manufacturer of carton packaging for liquids, issued its first green...

KBN Joins Euro Green Market

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On April 18th, Kommunalbanken Norway (KBN) issued a €500 million 5-year green bond. It was KBN’s first green bond in euros...

ESMA Launches EU Green Bonds External Reviewers Consultation

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the adoption of the European Green Bonds (EuGB) standard, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets...

Can Gender Bonds Support the Gender Equality Agenda?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As we celebrate International Women's Day, NordSIP took the opportunity to consider the landscape of the gender-related sustainable bond market and...

Swedish Market Shines in September

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The middle of September saw the Swedish fixed income market shine with three important transactions from large Swedish and Nordic issuers...

Nordea Returns to SLL Format

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Nordic banks seem to be racing to explore new sustainable fixed-income structures. At the same time as Swedbank conducted its inaugural...

Swedbank Issues First Nordic Bank Social Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Although sustainable finance has historically tended to prioritise governance and environmental efforts, the social aspect of ESG is gaining prominence in...

The Appeal of EM Corporate Debt

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At a time of global turmoil, with inflation eroding economic growth and returns in advanced economies, emerging markets remain an appealing...

Aligning Bonds With COP15 Goal

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As awareness of biodiversity increases, there's an argument to be made that fixed-income investors genuinely seeking to support bio-diversity should align...

Nordic Sustainable Bond Market Bucks Global Trend in 2022

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The difficult economic conjuncture that dominated financial markets in 2022 couldn't avoid but to spill over onto sustainable fixed income markets,...