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GB Market Report: Commercial and development banks: Costa Rica’s Banco Nacional ($500m, 5yrs) makes four from LATAM: We hail EIBs fifth CAB ($1.5bn, 10yrs), World Bank x 3 ($16.4m, 8yrs; $1.4m, 9yrs & $280m, 2yrs)!

 

Commercial banks

Banco Nacional de Costa Rica taps green bond market for the first time with a $500m high-yield issuance (5.875%, 5 yrs, BB+)

"Tiny green bond market looking ready to sprout" says P&I

According to Pensions & Investment magazine: "Money managers, institutional investors and others are combining efforts to drive the nascent green bonds market forward, and the fruits of their labor are becoming apparent."

It's an all-cast story, with quotes from CalSTRS, SSgA, UKSIF, SEB, IIGCC, AP3, Nikko, Calvert (if you know all the acronyms you qualify as a green bond groupie). The story also mentions the Climate Bonds Standards.