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IRS announces changes to Form 8038-CP coming in January 2022

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On November 16, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) publicly previewed a draft of a revised Form 8038-CP (Return for Credit Payments to Issuers of Qualified Bonds), along with updated filing instructions and a new...more

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Bonds with a Social, Environmental, or Governance Focus

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Investing with a focus on a particular social, environmental, or governance (“ESG”) impact is all the rage right now. Investing with an ESG focus can be made through investing in equities or bonds. This article will focus on...more

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Sustainability-linked bonds: the new face of transition finance

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In the wake of the unprecedented success of sustainability-linked loans, the concept of linking a debt instrument to sustainability performance and its utility was quickly adopted by the bond market with the creation of...more

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Sustainability-linked bonds complement and bolster the sustainable finance market

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In September 2019, Italian power generation company Enel opened up the market for a new sustainable finance product — bonds with interest rate adjustments related to sustainability performance targets. This new product has...more

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Transition Bonds Guidelines May Expand Sustainable Finance

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New investor-published guidelines for transition bonds could expand sustainable finance to a broader variety of conventional businesses. On June 12, 2019, AXA Investment Managers published an article calling for the market...more

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Blue Bonds Floated, Adding the Latest Color to the Sustainability Finance Palette Wheel

Following the inaugural sovereign blue bond issuance by the Republic of Seychelles last October, there have been two recent blue bond announcements. First, The Nature Conservancy recently announced its ambitious “Blue Bonds...more

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When Is a Loan “Green”?

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New international guidelines on environmental sustainability adopted from green bonds allow lenders and borrowers to designate “green loans" - More than US $150 billion in “green bonds”—bonds that fund projects that...more

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ICMA Publishes Social Bond Principles

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The principles provide guidance to issuers on the process of issuing social bonds, including the types of projects that qualify as social projects and the level of disclosure that should be provided to investors; compliance...more

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First Issuance of Green Bonds by the French State

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On 24 January 2017, France issued its first sovereign green bonds for an amount of €7 billion, with a maturity of 22 years and a yield at issue of 1.741 percent. The French sovereign issuance was fully allocated with total...more

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Green e Social Bond. Le modifiche al Regolamento ExtraMOT della Borsa Italiana

LE MODIFICHE - In data 13 marzo 2017 sono entrate in vigore alcune modifiche al Regolamento ExtraMOT pubblicate da Borsa Italiana S.p.A. (“Borsa Italiana”). Tali modifiche sono state introdotte al fine di prevedere...more

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China Gives Green Light for Green Bonds

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China launched a green bond pilot initiative via the Shanghai Stock Exchange, encouraging further foreign investment in a rapidly growing asset class and paving the way for issuances by non-financial institutions....more

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MA to Issue AA+ $100m of Green Bonds on June 4

The State of Massachusetts announced that on June 4, 2013, it will issue $100 million of Green General Obligation Bonds (“GO Green Bonds”) underwritten by Bank of America Merrill Lynch....more

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