Exchange Of The Year Title Returns To LuxSE For The 8th Time

During the official unveiling of Environmental Finance’s Sustainable Debt Awards 2026 winners, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange was once again crowned ‘Exchange of the Year’ - marking the eighth time that the Exchange has received this prestigious recognition of its efforts in the field of sustainable finance.

Luxembourg, 14 April 2026: The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) today announced that it has been awarded the title of ‘Exchange of the Year’ at Environmental Finance’s Sustainable Debt Awards 2026.

Marking the eighth time that this title has been awarded to the Exchange and its leading platform for sustainable finance, the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX), this year’s award recognised the new sustainable finance initiatives brought to the market by LuxSE in 2025 – namely, its Transition Finance Gateway and EU Taxonomy Issuers Window. This comes in addition to the continued development of its education and data initiatives, the LGX Academy and LGX DataHub.

Facilitating the transition

In 2025, a year that saw the global sustainable finance agenda challenged by geopolitical events, LuxSE and LGX welcomed 601 new sustainable bonds, raising a total of EUR 233 billion for sustainable development across the world.

In addition to continuing to mobilise finance for sustainable development projects all over the world and foster sustainable finance developments in emerging markets, LuxSE took important strides in 2025 to move beyond its traditional security-level focus and shine the spotlight on issuer-level climate transition data and EU Taxonomy alignment.

“2025 was an important year for our Exchange, marking how we stepped up our commitment to facilitating a more low-carbon and inclusive world, and it is an honour to have our efforts recognised by Environmental Finance. Stock exchanges play a crucial role in bringing both high-emitting sectors and emerging markets into global transition efforts, and the concrete initiatives LuxSE launched last year reflect this important responsibility,” commented Laetitia Hamon, Head of Operations and Sustainable Finance at LuxSE, who will assume the role of Chief Operating Officer of LuxSE from 1 May.

A more holistic approach

In July 2025, LuxSE announced the launch of a brand-new initiative which aims to support issuers in their transition journey and provide transparency to investors. The Transition Finance Gateway highlights the transition efforts of the exchange’s 500+ non-financial corporate debt issuers, regardless of whether they have brought conventional or sustainable bonds – or a mixture of both – to LuxSE.

In November 2025, LuxSE launched its next important step in moving beyond its previous security-level focus by unveiling the EU Taxonomy Issuers Window of the LGX Platform. This is the first such window exclusively dedicated to issuers with significant EU Taxonomy alignment launched by a European exchange. The EU Taxonomy Issuers Window showcases LuxSE issuers with either Significant Turnover Alignment or Significant CapEx Alignment with the EU Taxonomy.

Advancing sustainable finance through education and data

Beyond launching two new initiatives that place a specific focus on transition finance and Europe’s sustainable finance agenda, LuxSE continued to develop the LGX Academy and LGX DataHub in 2025 – a year that saw both initiatives celebrate their fifth anniversaries.

Through the LGX Academy, LuxSE’s experts travelled to nine different countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to facilitate the development of sustainable finance in these key regions.

2025 was also an important year for LuxSE’s centralised sustainable bond database, the LGX DataHub, which closed out 2025 with up to 200 data points on 23,000+ sustainable bonds listed worldwide, and powered a report on the global sustainable bond market and two market intelligence studies focusing on the sustainability-linked bond market and gender-focused bonds.