Issuances of green, social and sustainability bonds (GSS) have fallen 25% year-on-year, according to MainStreet Partners' latest report, with US bond issuance in particular tanking.
The latter reached its lowest level since 2017 in 2025's opening quarter, a period marked by regulatory and policy uncertainty and geopolitical turbulence. Gravis' Albane Poulin: The case for private credit over high yield bonds Europe remains the leader in the GSS Bond market, with over $109bn in bonds issued in the first quarter of 2025 alone, though this is a decrease from the $150bn issued during the same period last year. Meanwhile, Asian markets has expanded, with cumulative GSS Bond issuance from the region surpassing $600bn. This has mainly been driven by issuers from China...
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