Since the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) issued its voluntary climate-related financial risk disclosure recommendations in 2017, its supporters have reached a critical mass. Nordea and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) co-hosted the TCFD Reporting Summit 2020 to discuss the state of TCFD implementation and climate-related reporting.
On 20 November the European Commission launched a public consultation on the EU Taxonomy criteria for the two sustainability objectives: climate chang...
Find out what EU sustainable finance policy developments Tim Farrar, Head of Public Affairs at Nordea Large Corporates & Institutions, is watching, an...
Head of Nordea Sustainable Finance Advisory Jacob Michaelsen argues that the sustainable finance market does not need a "transition bond" label, which...
The ratings system caters to a variety of investment strategies, allowing investors to tailor the output for their specific preferences. Marco Kisic, ...
Since the publication of the Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles in 2019, global sustainability-linked loan volumes have shot past green loan levels. Sustainability-linked loans provide a good complement to green loans for companies pushing a broader sustainability strategy and are a relevant alternative for entities within sectors that are not green by nature.
Nordea Leveraged Finance acted as Sole Financing Provider in the first Nordic sustainability linked loan LBO financing, arranging the financing for Tr...
Ever since Poland became the first sovereign to issue a green bond back in December 2016, the race has been on to see which countries would follow. No...
Leading maritime publication Marine Money has confirmed Nordea’s standing as a leading Global Maritime Lender to the industry, naming five deals tha...
We find that green bonds have been more resilient than traditional bonds in times of crisis, but there are things to keep in mind when doing the analy...
Previous international agreements to halt the loss of biodiversity draw to an end in 2020, with most targets not being met. This Earth Day, we take a ...
The European Commission’s expert group on sustainable finance has published its final recommendations on the EU taxonomy, a framework for classifyin...
The European Commission's expert group on sustainable finance has released a guide for how to use the EU's new Green Bond Standard. A member of that g...
Issuance of corporate hybrid bonds, which blend features of debt and equity, is on the rise in the Nordics. The simple structure for raising equity ca...