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◆ The prospects for sterling bond issuance amid UK political upheaval ◆ A new issuer and a new securitization from the SSA sector ◆ Ontario's plans for a resilience bond
Energie 360, Luzerner Kantonsspital and Aargauische Kantonalbank print green paper
Energy companies took advantage of record tight spreads as they joined a ‘perfect storm’ of dollar funding
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One of the corporate bond market’s most experienced funding officials is to leave the market next month.
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Corporate bond issues came at a healthy clip in the US market this week, despite earnings blackouts, as investors showed a preference for highly rated paper.
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Market participants will embark in the coming weeks on the difficult task of working out how to use the European Union’s sustainable finance Taxonomy, after the first criteria were published this week. In doing so, they will be conscious that the smooth tide of green finance is now breaking against the hard reality of power politics and resistance by fossil fuel industries — a clash that is rocking the Taxonomy’s credibility, writes Jon Hay.
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Europe’s corporate bond market hosted a debut sustainability-linked bond and two multi-part trades this week, despite overall issuance winding down as earnings season gets under way.
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Spanish electrical utility Iberdrola issued sustainability-linked debt this week with a key performance indicator linked to the theme of social equality. This growing trend in the loan market is expected to make the leap to corporate bonds, pushing investors to put more focus on a company’s entire ESG performance, rather than the narrow KPIs of one deal.
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Aeroporti di Roma made its debut in the sustainability-linked bond market on Thursday, with a structure that allows for several shades of performance, rather than the simple flat rate 25bp coupon step-up usually used.
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