A Few Very Good Reasons to Protect the Integrity of Gender Bonds
Latin America and the Caribbean has become a leading region in gender bond issuance aimed at bolstering women’s empowerment. These instruments offer a promising capital market solution to mobilize funds towards projects that help accelerate parity.
Reaping the Benefits of Subordinated Bonds: The Case of Banco de Bogotá
Subordinated bonds can extend financing to the real sector and priority segments, such as small- and medium-sized enterprises, women entrepreneurs, and green projects that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Three Ways to Protect the Sustainability-Linked Bond Market
The risks involved in sustainability-liked bonds often focus on insufficiently robust and ambitious targets and KPIs, improperly crafted incentives and structural loopholes. All these can be alleviated with better monitoring of issuers.
Fighting Greenwashing & Other Risks in the Sustainability-Linked Bond Market
Sustainability-linked bonds provide issuers with much leeway for the use of proceeds and market participants are getting a better understanding of their risks and rewards, as well as how they can be “gamed”. Green-washing is only one of several risks looming.
Driving Mexico’s Sustainable Transition with ESG Bonds
Thematic and sustainability-related bonds are attracting increasing interest from issuers. For the market to continue to develop, a clear understanding of the challenges and, of course, the opportunities they present is important.
As ESG Investors Look for Returns, Sustainability-Linked Bonds are the Hot New Thing
SLBs are new type of ESG-friendly bonds with variable coupons tied to sustainability targets. As opposed to green, social or sustainable bonds, issuance proceeds are not tied to specific green or social projects or assets; the focus is on the company’s ability to meet its commitments.