On Wednesday 07th October 2020, Société du Grand Paris successfully launched its fifth and sixth Green
bond issuances under its Green EMTN programme, for a total amount of EUR 6bn split over two distinct
tenors: EUR 3bn at 10-year (0% coupon) and EUR 3bn at 40-year (0.7% coupon).
After the Netherlands and Sweden, Germany has become the third AAA-rated country to issue a green government
bond. The German government also announced its commitment to building a full green yield curve, next to its
conventional yield curve.
In June 2019, CNP Assurances was the first European issuer in the insurance sector to publish a framework document for the
issuance of green bonds.
Nomura Securities Co., Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced that it has priced a three-year Green Bond issue valued at 40 billion yen for NTT Finance Corporation. Nomura acted as bookrunner and green bond structuring agent for the offering, which was the first such offering for the company.
This Italian gas transport group has just issued in June 2020 a transition bond, a bond intended to support the transformation of carbon-intensive industries.