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Month: January 2021

Green

EEM Label ready to go, could offer ‘bridge’ to Taxonomy

29 January 2021

The Energy Efficient Mortgage Label will be launched on 12 February, offering a platform for lenders to provide data and transparency around green products and providing a “bridge” towards a greener market and potentially higher Taxonomy standards, according to the EMF-ECBC’s Luca Bertalot.

Social

Caffil seeks private placement ‘dynamism’ in social bond first

28 January 2021

Caffil is posting levels for social bonds in private placement format, in what is understood to be a first for a covered bond issuer, with its funding team citing investor interest in such product, which it hopes will add “dynamism” to its MTN issuance at the long end of the curve.

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NN pioneers with green covered and mortgage start-up

Nationale-Nederlanden Bank (NN Bank) on 10 May issued the first Dutch green covered bond, reinforcing the group’s ESG drive, including the establishment in 2020 of Woonnu, a mortgage provider aimed at incentivising sustainable living. Sustainabonds’ Neil Day discussed the varied dimensions of the bank’s sustainability strategy with NN Bank’s Niek Allon, head of treasury, Sander Roling, funding manager, and Patricia Plass, head of ESG office and CEO of Woonnu.
  • Accelerating the transition to sustainable finance via liability management

  • Public sector roundtable: Building a better future

  • SFIL powers green and social impact across France

  • Sustainability-linked bonds go mainstream

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  • Taxonomy reverts to ‘top 15%’ for buildings, sparing green covered bonds
  • Rabobank pushes ESG status as touchstone in CP/CD first
  • Kutxabank takes market challenges into account to match social DNA
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  • GBP, EBA updates raise green covered bond questions
  • NN pioneers with green covered and mortgage start-up
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  • Prolific Berlin Hyp plans green fourth, moves atop oekom ratings – SUSTAINABONDS: […] deal is a follow-up to a debut EUR500m seven year senior green bond the bank issued in September 2016.…
  • HLEG expert: Climate charges likelier than green risk weight cut – SUSTAINABONDS: […] Hosted by Norton Rose in London and held under the Chatham House Rule, the meeting was convened as part…

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