Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Saturday said trading of sovereign green bonds can commence at the International Financial Services Centre in Gujarat during the second half of the current fiscal. “We are in discussion with the IFSC, it will be operationalised very soon. I think in the second half (of the current financial year), … Read more
Mumbai: India’s capital markets and banking regulators are taking steps that would encourage investments in green bonds and also help expand the broader debt market. To enable companies to issue Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) bonds locally, the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) chief general manager Dimple Bhandia talked about the need for an enabling … Read more
New Delhi: LIC Housing Finance, the mortgage arm of insurance behemoth LIC, plans to mobilise funds through green bonds in the coming financial year with an aim to finance environmentally-sustainable housing projects. “Green financing is something that we will look at the next year and we would deploy the fund for financing green housing projects,” … Read more
