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AP7 Invests in IFC’s Biodiversity Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Biodiversity has been one of the main sustainable themes of 2024. Bond markets has been an important avenue through which the...

Kommuninvest to Issue Social Bond in 2025

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Although they are still a relatively small segment of the global sustainable fixed-income market, social bonds are an important part of...

Nordic Sustainable Bond Issuance Down From 2023 as of Q3

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At a time when green-hushing is expected to increase due to the election of an anti-ESG political majority in the USA,...

SEK Issues First EUR Benchmark of 2024

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At a time of increasing deglobalisation and rising tariffs businesses need more help than they have in a long time to...

Grenada Defers Bond Payments Due to Hurricane Beryl

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Hurricane season (from June to November) in the Atlantic Ocean is always difficult for Caribbean nations to weather. This summer, Hurricane...

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...

Difficult First Half for Nordic Sustainable Bond Market

Stockholm (NordSIP) - During the first half of 2024, Nordic issuance of sustainable bonds was worth €31.5 billion, down by 6% compared to the...

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...

Should SLBs be Monitored as ESG Bonds or as General-Purpose Bonds?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In its latest report on monitoring capital flows to sustainable investments, the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, an advisory body to...

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...

Ørsted Returns to the Market After Downgrade

Stockholm (NordSIP) -  On March 5th, Ørsted issued €750 million in green hybrid capital securities. The securities pay a 5.125% coupon, are callable after...

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...

Adani in Hot Water as it Seeks Green Bond Return

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following a less than fortuitous 2023 that saw a rout on Adani stock after it was publicly shorted by Hindenburg Partners,...

Japan Issues Inaugural Sovereign Climate Transition Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Thursday, February 8th, the government of Japan, via the country's central bank, launched its Climate Transition Bond with an inaugural...

Art9 Bond Funds Rule 2023 with Duration, Fixed Rates and Real Estate

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The fourth quarter of 2023 was marked by a continued improvement in the performance by the Nordic fixed-income funds with a...

Scandinavian Pensions Support Plastic Waste Reduction Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) – As the world continues to produce hundreds of millions of tons of plastic annually, the pollution they create and the lack...

FIGs, Sovereigns and SLBs Rise as Real Estate Bonds Retreat in 2023

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As 2023 ended, and since the World Bank issued the first green bond in 2007, the global market for sustainable bonds...

Japan Announces Details of Transition Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following an initial announcement by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the PRI in Person conference that took place in Tokyo in...

Nuclear and Cars Go Green

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The first week of December saw the issuance of two very significant green bonds from the automotive and energy sectors. The...

Ericsson Joins Green Bond Market

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On November 22rd, Swedish telecoms company Ericsson issued its inaugural green bond. The security is worth €500 million and matures in...

Real Estate and Exchange Rates Stand Out for Art9 FI Managers in Q3

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The third quarter of 2023 was marked by interest rate increases, hints at a potentially more accommodating monetary policy environment and...

Denmark and Finland Grab Bond Market in Third Quarter

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Amid rising interest rates and increasing turbulence in the Middle East, the third quarter of 2023 saw a drop in quarterly...

EU Makes a Green Splash

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On November 14th, the EU took over the green bond market issuing €3 billion of 25-year green bonds, as a part...

H&M Launches Inaugural Green Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the end of October, H&M Group issued a €500 million green bond with a maturity of 8 years under its...

EU Adopts European Green Bond Standard

Stockholm (NordSIP) - After two years in the pipeline, the Council of the EU adopted a regulation creating a European Green Bond Standard (EGBS) on...

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...

Swedish Sustainable Bond Issuance Rebounds in Q2

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As fixed-income markets closed the first half of the year, sustainable bond issuance seemed to remain on track with that of...

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...

Länsförsäkringar Invests in CEB’s First SEK Social Inclusion Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 27 April, the Council of Europe Deveopment Bank (CEB) issued a SEK650 million five-year Social Inclusion Bond (SIB), the largest...

Denmark and Norway Lead Nordic Bonds During First Quarter

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the first quarter of 2023 came to an end, financial markets took stock of the ongoing macroeconomic conjuncture and how...

Which Article 9 Nordic Bond Fund Came on Top in Q1?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Facing rising interest rates, persistent inflation and fears of an expanding banking crisis in the USA, portfolio managers (PMs) of fixed-income...

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,...

ECB Proposes Climate Policy Paradigm Shift

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Inflation was one of the dominant themes of 2022 and looks set to remain on top of investors' agenda in 2022....

NordSIP Insights – Sustainable Fixed Income Handbook 2022

How time flies! Five years ago, we published our first ever edition of the Sustainable Fixed Income Handbook, upon request from one of our...

Finnfund Offers SDG Exposure to Private Investors

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Mobilising private capital is key to closing the UN-estimated financing gap of US$2.5 trillion per year needed to meet the UN...

Why We Won’t Be Seeing Banks Issue SLBs Any Time Soon?

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...

Nordea Launches New Bond Tied to SLL Portfolio

Sockholm (NordSIP) - Following the publication of a its new Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) Framework at the end of the second quarter of 2022, Nordea...

Highlighting Green Leaders and Laggards Among Fixed Income Dealers

Stockholm (NordSIP) - While sustainable fixed income markets provide easy ways to quantify the financial sector's ability to channel funding to ESG projects, issuance...

CBI Launches Social and Sustainability Bond Database

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Climate Bonds Initiative has announced the expansion of its data analysis capabilities with the launch of a Social and Sustainability...

Development Banks and Stakeholders Launch SLB Hub

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As sustainable investing continues to gain momentum, fixed income instruments have become one of the most popular tools to pursue the...

Sustainable Bond Issuance Down During H1 2022

Stockholm (NordSIP) – According to the latest report from the Climate Bonds initiative, US$417.8 billion worth of debt labelled as green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked,...

NN IP Bets on Social Bonds

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Companies, governments, and government-related entities are increasingly issuing social bonds to finance projects that contribute to society with a neutral or...

Nordic Investors Rush to Northvolt’s Convertible Note

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Batteries are one of the main hurdles underlying the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies. Given the inability to...

ICMA Updates Green Securitisation Guidelines and SLB KPIs

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the sustainable fixed income market continues to grow, issuers and investors require the development of definitions, guidelines and indicators to...

Nordic Corporates Price Below ITPs

Stockholm (NordSIP) - With the competing supply of many investment-grade corporate borrowers around the time of the ECB's latest meeting, two issuers from Denmark...

Singapore Establishes Green Bond Framework

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Although some remain sceptical, global stakeholders remain focused on fulfilling their responsibility to address climate change challenges. To this effect, at...

France Offers Green Protection Against Inflation

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The commodities market supply-side shock brought about by the war in Ukraine created inflation pressures not seen for several decades in...

ESG in the US Mid Market

The integration of ESG factors into investment management processes, which originally started mainly within listed equities, has gradually made its way right across most...

All Aboard VR Group’s Inaugural Green Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On May 20th, VR Group Plc, the national transport operator in Finland, providing long-distance and commuter rail services as well as...

Finland’s First Corporate SLB

Stockholm (NordSIP) (Updated post) - On May 12th, Finnish environmental services company Lassila & Tikanoja Oyj issued a €75million six-year sustainability-linked bond (SLB). The...

MuniFin Returns to Green Bond Market

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In its first green transaction of 2022, MuniFin issued a €500 million 7-year green bond on May 10th. MuniFin is one...

Stockholm Exergi Returns to the Market

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Despite an adverse market which has seen some green bond market indices lose as much as 16% of their value since...

Strong Demand For Stena Metall’s Green Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - To meet the ambitious goals of the 2015 Paris agreement, all sectors of the global economy will have to pull together,...

SpareBank 1 Østlandet Launches 2nd Green Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Despite the battering that global green bond markets have taken so far this year, Nordic issuers are still finding enough demand...

SLB Market Navigates Ukraine Turbulence

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Despite the ongoing financial instability created by the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, Sustainability-Linked Bonds (SLBs) remain popular with investors.  Although...

EU Launches Second Green Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On April 5th, the European Commission issued a €6 billion 20-year green bond under its NextGenerationEU funding programme. The syndication follows its...

Greener Ferries Set Sail With Help From M&G

Stockholm (NordSIP) – UK based M&G Investments have agreed to lend NOK 1 billion to Fjord1, the largest and most environmentally-friendly ferry operating company...

Chile and Vestas Brave Ukraine Turbulence with SLBs

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Despite ongoing turbulence in financial markets caused by the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, green bond markets have remained open. At...

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