banks
Citi+BoAML promote new Green Bonds Framework; JP Morgan+MS join up; defines a green bond as being about underlying assets not green rating of the company
Submitted on Thu, 2013-10-31 18:30Earlier this month CitiBank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML) launched, via a special EuroWeek report on 'sustainable' capital markets, a "Framework for Green Bonds". This is potentially a big development.
Regulator update: China's excellent green credit guidelines are ... mandatory! A whole new set of worry lines for bank compliance staff :)
Submitted on Wed, 2013-10-16 07:49This China banking regulator stuff is getting exciting.
The climate bond underwriters league table: SEB, Citi, BAML, JP Morgan and HSBC lead the way
Submitted on Wed, 2013-09-25 18:02Media release
The Climate Bonds Initiative today released further data from their recent report ‘Bonds & Climate Change: the state of the market in 2013’, showing which lead managers are driving growth in this market.
Sth Africa's Nedbank retail green bonds meets their R4bn ($393m) year one target. Over 20% from new customers. Giving customers a chance to vote with their savings.
Submitted on Sat, 2013-08-17 04:19Nedbank's Green Savings Bond is a bog-standard bank offering for retail customers, except that funds are channelled to financing renewable projects under the South African Government's ambitious sustainable energy policy.