French province issues 119.5m green-SRI bond, China news: corporate bond market booms

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Snippets: French province issues 119.5m green-SRI bond / S&P says we need bonds to finance renewables / EDHEC study says Solvency II will reduce lending to business / Greenland’s big melt > French region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur has issued a 12 year, AA-rated, 119.5m “socially responsible” bond with 75% of proceeds …

Impact Investing 2012: full programme and speaker line-up now available

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We are pleased to announce that the programme and speaker line-up for Impact Investing 2012 has been finalised and is now available – for full details please either Visit the Conference Website or Download the Brochure. With a predicted ten-fold increase in impact investments to $500 billion by 2014 our Impact …