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...