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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

NIB Green Bond Overcomes Ukraine Uncertainty

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Over the last two months, financial markets have come under strain. The Ukraine crisis has seen the DAXX and the S&P500...

Transition-Linked Bonds For Shipping

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The shipping industry is one of the most important sectors for the energy transition. On the one hand, estimates suggest the...

Electrolux Sweeps Up Green Demand

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On February 17th, Electrolux, a leading global appliance company, launched its second green bond. The transaction was worth SEK2 billion in...

Alecta Invests in Belize (Restructured) Blue Bonds

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the end of January, Alecta announced it had invested US$75 million in a Blue Bond issued by the government of Belize....

Swedish Sub-nationals Gear Up

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following last week's DKK SSA rush, the attention of Nordic sustainable fixed income markets has turned to Swedish subnational borrowers. On...

SSAs Keep DKK Boom Alive

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following last week's inaugural green bond issuance by the Danish sovereign, green bond issuance in Danish Krona is booming. The sovereign...

Denmark Launches Inaugural Green Twin Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 19 January 2022 the Danish Government, through the Danish Central Bank (Danmarks Nationalbank), conducted an auction for its much-awaited inaugural...

A Buoyant 2022 For Sustainable Fixed Income Markets?

As expected, 2021 saw global sustainable fixed income markets reach and exceed the US$1 trillion mark in issuance. The new record was driven by...

Electrolux Signs Sustainability-Linked Credit Facility

Stockholm (NordSIP) -  On December 10th, Electrolux announced it had entered into a new €1 billion multi-currency revolving credit facility agreement linked to its...

Loomis Launches Inaugural SLB

Stockholm (NordSIP) - To help fund its efforts to decrease its CO2 emissions footprint, Loomis AB, one of the world’s leading companies in cash and...

Posten Norge Issues First Nordic Logistics Green Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Thursday, November 18, Posten Norge issued its inaugural five-year dual-tranche green bond worth NOK1 billion. The issuer is the Norwegian...

Diös Fastigheter Races Towards EU Green Bond Standard

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the announcement of what appears to be the first-ever EU taxonomy and the European Green Bond Standard-compliant green bond framework...

Kommuninvest Issues 14th Green Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Thursday, October 21st, Kommuninvest issued a new SEK 5 billion green bond maturing in May 2029.  This was the 14th...

Länsförsäkringar Prolongs Sustainable Bond Market Bonanza

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to the latest UN climate report, the transformation necessary to achieve the Paris Agreement's climate goals needs to accelerate. At...

EU Takes Over the Green Bond Market

Stockholm (NordSIP) -Following its take over of the social bonds market in the autumn of 2020, and on the heels of the recent announcement...

Sustainable and Transition Credit Investment Opportunities

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the IPCC continues to warn against the dangers of climate change and commitments remain short of bridging the funding gap,...

European Commission Publishes Green Bond Framework

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Tuesday, September 7th, the European Commission announced the adoption of its independently evaluated Green Bond framework. The EU intends to...

Genova Taps Covered Green Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The real estate sector is a crucial part of tackling climate change. According to the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UN EPFI),...

Pfizer Issues Second COVID-19 Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Pfizer announced the pricing of a sustainability bond of US$1 billion bond aggregate principal amount of 1.750% senior notes due 2031. The...

All Aboard Jernhusen’s Latest Green Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the beginning of July, Jernhusen, the owner and operator of railway stations and other buildings attached to the railway network...

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