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Sustainable Bond Market Outlook 2025: Holding Steady in a Maturing Market
Is the green finance revolution slowing down—or just getting smarter? Despite a cooling pace of growth, leading analysts forecast that sustainable bond issuance will hold strong at the $1 trillion mark in 2025, signaling consolidation and resilience in a maturing…
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Do Green Bonds Actually Work? A New BIS Study Links Issuance to Lower Emissions
Are green bonds just a marketing exercise—or do they drive real environmental outcomes? A new study from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) offers a compelling answer: companies that issue green bonds tend to significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions…
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What’s New in the 2025 Revisions to the Green, Social, and Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles?
In a year marked by increasing scrutiny of Sustainable Finance frameworks, the March 2025 updates to the Green Loan Principles (GLP), Social Loan Principles (SLP), and Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles (SLLP) represent a welcome recalibration of the market’s guiding standards. These…
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Streamlining Sustainable Finance for SMEs
In the global race towards sustainability, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have often been overlooked. Yet SMEs represent the vast majority of businesses in Europe, generating over half of the EU’s GDP and accounting for nearly two-thirds of industrial emissions.…
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Seeds of Change: The Rise of Sustainable Finance in Latin America
Available on Spotify Sustainable Finance was once considered a niche, a concept spoken softly in the corridors of banks and investment firms. Today, it has become a powerful movement transforming financial markets worldwide—and Latin America is at its forefront. Across…
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Soft Launch Announcement: Sustainable Finance Academy is Live!
We are excited to announce that the Sustainable Finance Academy (SFA) has officially reached soft launch — a major milestone that brings our vision one step closer to reality. What’s Available Now? As we carefully open our doors to visitors,…