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Aussies rule for Japan’s investors

While Japan remains the world’s largest creditor, its investors are not making much of an impact in the euro and dollar SSA bond markets. Instead, they are making their presence felt in Australian dollars and, as ever, the Uridashi market.

GlobalCapital, September 29, 2017
Asia

Pro-Bond market looks to bright bank capital future

Despite disappointing volumes this year, from both a supply and a demand standpoint, the arguments for issuing in Pro-Bond format are as relevant as they have ever been and the longer‑term outlook for the market remains healthy. TLAC and MREL capital issuance could be particularly heavy — and lucrative.

GlobalCapital, September 29, 2017
Asia

Global issuers flock to Japan’s ESG theme park

Japanese retail investors have been keen buyers of ‘themed’ or ESG (environmental, social and governance) bonds for many years, and institutional investor appetite for green or socially responsible issuance is now growing rapidly. This is creating a wealth of opportunities for international and local issuers in the ESG market. A multinational panel of issuers in the global and Japanese capital market gathered to discuss the prospects for increased Japanese investor demand in this fast-expanding area.

GlobalCapital, September 29, 2017
Asia

Waking up to reality: the race to put numbers on climate risk

Sustainability is a term used liberally and vaguely in the financial world. But it has a precise meaning: living so that we do not make it harder for future generations to live. That principle is violated by today’s economy, including its financial markets. But little by little, the heart of markets — the decisions investors make — is facing up to what it has long repressed. Jon Hay reports.

Jon Hay, September 29, 2017
Asia

Japan’s SRI issuers catching up after investors show the way

Japan’s borrowers have been slow to board the SRI train. However, this is beginning to change, thanks to committed issuers such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Development Bank of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

GlobalCapital, September 29, 2017
Asia

Belt and Road: China’s new green finance laboratory

The enthusiasm in China for a greener economy — and green financing techniques — now embraces the far-reaching Belt and Road Initiative. Meanwhile, foreign investors are being invited into China’s bond market. But as Noah Sin reports, to unite Chinese and international green finance markets, China will have to close the gap between two views of what is green.

Noah Sin, September 29, 2017
Asia

Regulators and local innovators drive progress in southeast Asia

Asia’s green finance story is not just about China and India. Although the US has threatened to pull out of the Paris Agreement, southeast Asia has reiterated its commitment to sustainability. As Morgan Davis reports, that is beginning to be felt in its financial markets, where countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia are exploring ways to foster green financing.

Morgan Davis, September 29, 2017
SRI

Innovation lends power to the arms of green investors

Several developments in the past year have the potential to move green finance up a gear, in its ability to actually bring about change in the real world. Jon Hay highlights four of them.

Jon Hay, September 29, 2017
SRI

SSAs sowing the seeds of green pricing performance

The much sought after trend for green bonds to outperform conventional paper in secondary trading is now a reality, according to public sector borrowers — but perhaps only for those with enough dots on their green curves to provide a comparison.

Craig McGlashan, September 29, 2017
SRI

Bonds set to play big role in Lat Am green investment boom

Latin America is one of the most promising fields, both for green economic investment, and for green financing. Powerful players in the region’s capital markets, such as national development banks, are supportive, and the range of issuers is spreading, from renewable energy into sectors such as paper, airports and banks. As Oliver West reports, there is good demand from international investors, but what could help even more is to build up the local market.

Oliver West, September 29, 2017
SRI

Corporate and bank green bonds: focus on issuers grows

Corporate and bank issuers are taking up the SRI bond gauntlet, providing the market with the kind of names that have long been the goal of its biggest cheerleaders.

Craig McGlashan, September 29, 2017
SRI

Green-aware investors take the lead in driving SRI growth

Responsible investing — and green and social bonds in particular — are still not a mass market among US investors. But the fund managers leading the charge are optimistic: consciousness has moved a long way in a few years.

Toby Fildes, September 29, 2017

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