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Commonwealth Bank provides sustainability-linked finance to Wesfarmers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
Commonwealth Bank and Wesfarmers have signed a $400 million three-year bilateral sustainability-linked loan which will link social and environmental outcomes to the cost of finance. Andrew Hinchliff, CBA group executive for institutional banking and ...

ASX200 boards above 30% women in aggregate, but six have none

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... percentage of women on their boards are Bapcor, with three women, or 60%, NIB Holdings, with four women, or 57.1%, Commonwealth Bank, with rive women, or 55.6%, Medibank Private with five women, or 55.6%, and Woolworths Group, with five women, or 55.6%. ...

Taskforce recommends government support to build social impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
A landmark Social Impact Investing Taskforce is recommending that the commonwealth government take a "coordinated and long term" approach to guide its involvement in the social impact investing market. Kylie Charlton, managing director of Australian ...

IIG announces tenants for Younghusband Woolstores development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... ClarkeHopkinsClarke and the culture of their business: social and environmental impact is at the core of their work." The Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment have agreed to lease almost 4,400 sqm of office space, bringing together ...

Analysis: too big to be sustainable?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... potentially criminal penalties the bank and employees will face. Westpac does not stand alone in AML/KYC failures. Commonwealth Bank of Australia paid a then-record fine of $700 million to settle proceedings relating to serious breaches of AML/CTF laws. ...

Investors considering their options in voting at Westpac AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)'s response to the Final Report of the Prudential Inquiry into Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). In Westpac's own self-assessment, it noted : "[I]t was suggested to the Review Team that there was ...

Business has role to play in protecting human rights: Gillian Triggs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... to the protection of human rights law," she said. "We are extraordinarily the only western democracy and the only commonwealth country in the world that does not have a charter of human rights or some benchmark form of law against which the practices ...

Institutional Shareholder Services purchases CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... ownership of Regnan, bringing the research firm in-house. Pendal previously owned 50% of Regnan and bought out the other Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC)

Pendal Group takes total ownership of Regnan to bolster in-house capacity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... firm and bring the research team in-house. Richard Brandweiner, CEO, Pendal Group Pendal Group co-owned Regnan with Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC), which will cease to be a shareholder. The move is designed to augment Pendal's ESG research ...

Investors discuss reporting on risks via Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... affected entities that must be signed off year on year. There will also be a central, government-run register and the Commonwealth government will also be required to comply, Sinclair said. In terms of current disclosures around human rights policies ...