Stockholm (NordSIP) - On September 30th, Oatly Group AB, a Swedish manufacturer of plant-based dairy substitutes, announced that it had started to take the...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - On September 24, Swedish pension fund AP7 participated in a new issuance by the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) designed to promote...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the explosion of green bond issuance in the late 2010s and early 2020s, the European Union passed the European Green...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Farming remains one of the most significant hurdles in the quest for climate change mitigation and the protection of biodiversity. According...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Social bonds, securities that aim to fund projects addressing social issues or achieving positive social outcomes, remain a relatively small part...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the world continues to wobble amid geopolitical crises, trade wars and rising temperatures, fixed-income markets remain one of the main...
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...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - On June 24th, the Republic of Slovenia issued its inaugural sustainability-linked bond (SLB), the first such instance of this format being...
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...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has published a Consultation Paper on the...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - The beginning of April saw the European Investment Bank (EIB) break new ground on a number of sustainable bond issuance fronts,...
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...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Heimstaden Bostad AB (publ) successfully issued a SEK850 million green senior unsecured floating rate notes at the start of February. This...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Despite the many woes plaguing ESG investing at the moment, sustainable bond issuance remains appealing to investors, with 2024 witnessing the...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the peak issuance of 2021 fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, 2024 saw global sustainable debt issuance return to positive annual...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - In 2023, about 735 million people suffered from hunger, while nearly 700 million people continued to live in extreme poverty surviving...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Although they are still a relatively small segment of the global sustainable fixed-income market, social bonds are an important part of...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Hurricane season (from June to November) in the Atlantic Ocean is always difficult for Caribbean nations to weather. This summer, Hurricane...
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...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Sustainability-linked Bonds (SLBs) have been a vehicle for the growth of sustainable finance since Italian utilities giant first issued such bond...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - On June 27th, Kommuninvest, Sweden's agency for municipalities' funding, published new terms for Green loans and an updated Green Bonds Framework,...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the publication of its Green Bond Framework, Elopak, a Norwegian manufacturer of carton packaging for liquids, issued its first green...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - In its latest report on monitoring capital flows to sustainable investments, the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, an advisory body to...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the adoption of the European Green Bonds (EuGB) standard, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - On March 5th, Ørsted issued €750 million in green hybrid capital securities. The securities pay a 5.125% coupon, are callable after...
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...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Thursday, February 8th, the government of Japan, via the country's central bank, launched its Climate Transition Bond with an inaugural...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - On November 22rd, Swedish telecoms company Ericsson issued its inaugural green bond. The security is worth €500 million and matures in...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - The third quarter of 2023 was marked by interest rate increases, hints at a potentially more accommodating monetary policy environment and...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - The middle of September saw the Swedish fixed income market shine with three important transactions from large Swedish and Nordic issuers...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Nordic banks seem to be racing to explore new sustainable fixed-income structures. At the same time as Swedbank conducted its inaugural...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Although sustainable finance has historically tended to prioritise governance and environmental efforts, the social aspect of ESG is gaining prominence in...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - At a time of global turmoil, with inflation eroding economic growth and returns in advanced economies, emerging markets remain an appealing...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 27 April, the Council of Europe Deveopment Bank (CEB) issued a SEK650 million five-year Social Inclusion Bond (SIB), the largest...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Facing rising interest rates, persistent inflation and fears of an expanding banking crisis in the USA, portfolio managers (PMs) of fixed-income...
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...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - The difficult economic conjuncture that dominated financial markets in 2022 couldn't avoid but to spill over onto sustainable fixed income markets,...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - This week, NordSIP covered the launch of Nordea's new set of bonds tied to its Sustainability-linked loan portfolio. The transaction was...
Sockholm (NordSIP) - Following the publication of a its new Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) Framework at the end of the second quarter of 2022, Nordea...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - While sustainable fixed income markets provide easy ways to quantify the financial sector's ability to channel funding to ESG projects, issuance...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Climate Bonds Initiative has announced the expansion of its data analysis capabilities with the launch of a Social and Sustainability...