green-bond-market

Green Securitisation: Part of the climate finance suite: Can the EU lead the way?

Submitted on Tue, 2017-04-04 12:31

 

The bundling of green loans into securities can unlock additional capital to finance the transition to a low carbon and climate-resilient economy.

Opportunities now exist across the EU to grow a significant market around green securitisation and contribute directly to 2030 energy and carbon reduction targets.

GB Market Rpt: Water, water everywhere! Cleveland $32.4m, Saint Paul $7.7m, Indiana $115.8m, Columbia Uni $50m, California $411m, Massachusetts Water $682m! US municipal green bonds issuance is dominated by water.

Submitted on Tue, 2016-04-26 16:56

There's been so much going on in the green bond space over the past couple of weeks that we have split the normal market report. Corporates

GB Market Rpt: Alliander €300m ($339.6m, 10yrs); 1st China onshore corporate Concord Wind RMB200m ($31m, 3yrs); Iberdrola €1bn ($1.13bn, 10yrs), Vasakronan SEK550m ($67.6m, 2yrs); Latvenergo €25m ($28.4m, 6yrs)

Submitted on Mon, 2016-04-25 14:27

For this market report edition we are focusing on the recent flurry of Corporate Green Bonds. There has been so much going on in the green bond space over the past couple of weeks that we will be blogging more about the municipal and development bank green bonds - and all those market developments - seperately, so keep an eye out

Corporate green bonds

 

Green Bond Market Report: Four new ‘AAA’ rated benchmark sized green bonds: Kommuninvest inaugural $600m (3yr) NWB Bank $1bn (10yr) Chinese bank SPD RMB 15bn ($2.3bn, 5yr) IFC $700m (10yr); &1st ever green Schuldschein frm Nordex €550m is CB Cert

Submitted on Mon, 2016-04-04 17:57

Banks

Kommunivest’s inaugural green bond upsized to $600m marks the largest Nordic issue yet ($600m, 3yrs, 1.5% S/A, Aaa)

Sweden’s largest municipal lender Kommuninvest leapt into the green bond market for the first time with the largest issuance. The Swedish lender’s inaugural green bond of $600 m has a 3-year tenor, semi-annual coupon of 1.5% and is rated Aaa by Moody’s. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Crédit Agricole CIB and SEB were lead underwriters for the deal.