Home News & ViewsNordic Highlights Q3 | 2021 – Nordic Green Covered Bonds Market 15/10/2021 | Points of View | Finance Nordic Highlights Q3 | 2021 – Nordic Green Covered Bonds Market We have published our Nordic Highlights Q3/2021 issue. Topic in this issue is finance. Nordic Green Covered Bonds Market The European Commission is proposing a regulation to create the European Green Bond Standard, which would refer to the detailed rules of the EU Taxonomy to define what is considered a green investment. The European Green Bond Standard would be available to different types of bond issuers — including issuers of covered bonds — on a voluntary basis. One of the qualifications for the Standard is that the funds raised by the bond should be allocated 100% to projects aligned with the EU Taxonomy. The Commission has high ambitions for the European Green Bond Standard. The overall aim is to create a ‘gold standard’ that other market standards can be compared to and potentially seek to align with. Read the full article here.