Focus: Asia
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong should use its status as an international finance hub to promote climate bonds, Asmita Aarshi
Aarshi encourages Hong Kong’s finance community to up its game when it comes to promoting a low carbon economy through green financing. The Paris Green Bond Statement gets a mention.
Apple Issues largest certified US corporate Green Bond ($1.5bn, 7 yrs, 2.85% S/A, Aa1e)
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US Muniland (the US Municipal bond market) now holds the title for the largest certified green bond
Toronto based clean energy company latest to join program
Global investment manager NN Investment Partners, (NN IP) has today joined the Climate Bonds Partnership Program.
Today, Dutch development bank FMO NV joined the Climate Bonds Initiative Partners Programme effective immediately.
Apple dropped into the green bond market for the first time yesterday with a whopping $1.5bn issuance. The green bond was part of larger $12bn bond sale by Apple, which is the second largest bond market deal so far this year.
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The first certified green bond in Asia, a flurry of municipal green bonds from three corners of the US: Texas (University of Texas), Massachusetts (Mass Clean Water) and California (San Diego) and repeat green issuances from Korea’s KEXIM, Canada’s Province of Ontario and the US governments’ OPIC. Plus a first time green issuance from New York's MTA this week rounded of a busy start to the month.
Corporate green bond
