Hong Kong edges ahead in green finance race

The oversubscribed Euro offering is in three tranches of 8, 12 and 20 years, and follows green bond issuances in Hong Kong and Australia in H1 2026.

Eric Tan has moved to the global law firm from Ashurst in Hong Kong; Hogan Lovells is rebranding in July following a merger.

Hong Kong’s financial secretary Paul Chan described the government's issuance of a third digital green bond as "reflecting the market support for tokenised products". The many times oversubscribed issuance had a large range of global investors.

Proceeds from the three-year notes will be mostly used to refinance maturing debentures.

Property group achieves three times oversubscribed green capital raise of half a billion dollars.

The Brunei lender priced its debut S$280m international bond, while the Mongolian bank obtained a $50m financing for MSMEs and climate and nature projects.