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Europe

Finland Lists First Green Bond on LSE with $500m Issuance

Finland’s leading provider of financial services in the country to local government and public housing sectors, Municipality Finance (MuniFin), opened trading on the London...

Adaptation: A Backdoor to the Sustainable Finance Taxonomy for Fossil Gas?

While all eyes have been fixed on the EU sustainable finance taxonomy’s climate change mitigation threshold, the parallel process for climate adaptation has received...

UK Asset Manager Schroders Launches Islamic Global Equity Fund

Schroders, a UK-headquartered asset manager with £563.3 billion in assets under management, has launched a new Global Islamic Equity Fund. The fund will give...

Germany Passes Law Legalizing Electronic Securities on Blockchain

Germany has passed a new law that legalizes the use of blockchain technology in the securities sector. The law eases a rule that required...

Global Green Bond Market Seen Hitting 1 Trillion Euros in 2021

The Hague-based NN Investment Partners estimates that the global green bond market will grow to 1 trillion euros (US$1.22 trillion) in 2021. Driving the surge...

Cardano to Open up to Ethereum Solidity Devs with New Initiative

Solidity, a major programming language for writing smart contracts, will soon become compatible with the Cardano blockchain. According to a Thursday announcement on the Cardano developers'...