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As the green bond market grows and becomes more sophisticated, so do the demands from investors for better verification and reporting standards. But with a proliferation of approaches and third party opinion providers, there are calls for standardisation — and even the potential for pricing differentials developing among bonds with different qualities of reporting. Craig McGlashan reports.

GlobalCapital's European SRI roundtable for 2015 brought together issuers, investors and bankers to discuss how to tackle the capital markets challenges of sustainable and responsible investment.

Responsible investing sounds clear enough, but there is a bewildering range of approaches. You can build up green portfolios or search for value across all your assets. Yet there is no doubt: responsible investing is on the march. Jon Hay reports.

Credit Suisse and Achmea Bank both launched successful fixed rate notes on Tuesday while Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken’s floater struggled to attract a good level of demand.

Credit Suisse and Achmea Bank both launched fixed rate notes on Tuesday while Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken’s successful floater proved the format’s value in uncertain markets.

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One of the biggest borrowers in the public sector capital markets is gearing up to test demand in the belly of the euro curve, two days after a less than ecstatic investor response to a 10 year from Finland.

Public sector benchmark issuance snapped back after extreme volatility in credit and equity markets early this week, but bankers are concerned about the depth of demand in the currency.

Finland priced a €3bn 10 year deal a day after global markets were rocked by a big sell-off in Chinese equities. But the investor response to the deal had some bankers saying the issuer should have waited.

SEB’s head of corporate finance will be leaving after nine years with the bank to work for a private equity firm in Stockholm, with SEB looking internally and externally to fill his job.