JONES DAY TALKS®: European Central Bank’s Climate Center & Investment Plans Focus on Sustainability (Encore Presentation)
JONES DAY TALKS®: European Central Bank’s Climate Center & Investment Plans Focus on Sustainability
JONES DAY TALKS®: Riding the Green Bond Wave: Focus is on Standards as Volumes Surge
The European Green Bond Standard seeks to be the “gold standard” for green bonds and reinforce the EU’s position as the leading market for sustainable finance. With the adoption of the EU green bond standard (the EU GBS),...more
The Colombian Financial Superintendence (Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia or SFC) established the specific conditions that must be incorporated by securities issuers at the time of issuing sustainability-linked bonds...more
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
Since their introduction in 2017, social bonds issuances have increased in popularity as an alternative or additional sustainable option to the green bond market. Social bonds allow issuers to raise funds that provide support...more
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
On 26 February 2019 the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced the expansion of its Green Bond Grant Scheme to include social and sustainability bonds, and renamed the framework the Sustainability Bond Grant Scheme. ...more
Often referred to as “a city within a garden”, Singapore has a proud tradition of forging ahead with “green” policies. Launched by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in June 2017, the Green Bond Grant Scheme (the...more
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