BSP-EMEAP Central Banks to Promote Green Bond Investment through Asian Bond Fund.
ENPNewswire-November 9, 2021--BSP-EMEAP Central Banks to Promote Green Bond Investment through Asian Bond Fund
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Release date- 08112021 - ?The Executives' Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Central Banks (EMEAP)1 is pleased to announce that the recent project to promote investment in green bonds through the Asian Bond Fund (ABF)2 has been finalized.
As announced in the previous press statement3 dated 12 July 2021, the EMEAP ABF Oversight Committee had requested IHS Markit, the index administrator of the iBoxx ABF Index to review the rules of the Index to promote the inclusion of green bonds. The review has been completed and IHS Markit has decided to make the following adjustments to the index.4
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Setting the definition of green bonds
(1) Bonds that are labelled green by Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI); or
(2) Bonds that are self-labelled and externally-reviewed as green in alignment with the Green Bond Principles of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA).
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Setting a lower minimum outstanding notional threshold for sub-sovereign green bonds issued in different markets.
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Changing the sub-sovereign issuer limit to 10% per issuer in each single market index, from the current limit of 5 bonds per issuer.
The new rules will take effect from the index rebalance date of 31 March 2022, on which date all new bonds will be added and the new thresholds for sub-sovereign green bonds become effective. The sub-sovereign bonds that become eligible for index inclusion on 31 March 2022 will be included through monthly rebalancing over six months, each with equal weight5, in order to facilitate a smooth transition.
The EMEAP believes this initiative will help catalyze further deepening of local currency-denominated bond markets, in particular green bond markets in the region. The EMEAP will continue to explore ways to further contribute to the development of the local currency denominated bond market.
1 The EMEAP is a group of the following eleven central banks and monetary authorities in the East Asia and Pacific region: Reserve Bank of Australia...
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