The New Zealand Financial Markets Authority (FMA) revealed on 13 December its decision on same-class exclusion as it relates to green, social and sustainability (GSS) bonds. It stated that while it was open to granting individual exemptions for certain transactions, as a rule, GSS bonds would not be eligible for issuance under the same-class exclusion for a vanilla bond.
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