Sustainable Finance Boosted by New Rules on ESG-Linked Bonds

ESG-linked bond issuance has soared to more than $200 billion since being first introduced in 2017. Now, you will be hard-pressed to find bond investors without an explicit ESG-mandate. Overbond’s issuer analytics monitors the green bond market, quantifying green bond premiums, measuring green bond issuance options in different currencies and identifying green bond investor holding patterns. Source:…

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Provinces brush off market jitters as companies pass on bond issuance

 Provinces and government issuers continue to issue bonds even while companies have stayed away from the primary market. Source: Financial Post Canadian provinces and government-related issuers took a serene approach to the recent turmoil in global markets, carrying on with bond issuance even as companies have stayed away from the primary market. Canada Housing Trust opened…

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Changing Corporate Market Liquidity in Canada

Along with a decline in liquidity, issuers of securities also noted the greater degree of difficulty they had in gauging the market and pricing new issues of benchmark bonds. They also noted the trend of investors demanding larger, more liquid benchmark bonds. Source: Wizard-At-Odds The BIS released their quarterly review at the beginning of December. In…

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