Green bonds

Sustainability-linked bonds (SLB) make up roughly $280 billion of issuance and can play an enormous part in transitioning the world economy.

The global shift to a low-carbon world will be "long, hard and complex," but Barclays's commitment is unwavering.

The company will use some of its fiber-optic network and associated customer contracts in the Dallas area to back a bond issue that will refinance some of the company's existing debt and finance a network expansion.

Almost $350 billion was raised from green bond sales and loan arrangements in the first half of this year, compared with less than $235 billion of oil, gas and coal-related financing.

GoodLeap 2023-2 has loans with fewer 25-year terms and higher FICO scores generally. Together, they'll have lower expected loss rates than those with longer terms and lower FICO scores.

Arrangers and analysts aren't predicting a return to the exponential growth of the past decade that turned a fringe concept into a $5.6 trillion asset class.

The single-family rental industry is slowly making its homes more energy-efficient. About 21% of total US energy consumption last year came from residential energy use.

A growing chorus of auditors, researchers and climate activists warn that the numbers provided by bankers offer an exaggerated picture of their role in fighting climate change.

Citigroup Global Markets is lead underwriter on the fourth issuance through Toyota’s ABS Green Bond program. The deal references two potential pools to be securitized.

JPMorgan Chase and Loop Capital Markets have submitted pitches suggesting ways to structure $1 billion of bonds that Governor Gavin Newsom proposed to build vehicle charging stations