“Sustainable finance” has fast become a stable feature of the financial markets. What started out initially as a simply a discussion around “green bonds” has now expanded to both “social” and “sustainability” labels as well as loan products.
If we were to wind back time five years, the sustainable fixed income market was limited to issuance of green bonds. Since then, it has developed to include social and sustainability bonds as well as a similar array of sustainability-labelled instruments in the loan market.
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