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Hejaz invests in Islamic Bank Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... bought a $10 million stake in Islamic Bank Australia, a move that will see Hejaz abandon its plan to obtain its own retail banking license. Hejaz, an Australian Islamic financial services provider, is funding the investment into Islamic Bank Australia ...

ESG salaries revealed, talent shortage predicted as demand surges

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... typical roles in the ESG investment field. Respondents ranged from junior ESG analyst to head of ESG in superannuation, banking, insurance, asset/funds management, wealth management, and more. Gvalda said that although the report did not include a gender ...

Australian sustainable finance taxonomy to feature traffic-light system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... including the establishment of a Taxonomy Board that includes government, peak representation across the financial sector (banking, insurance, investors and superannuation), climate and specialist expertise, and social and Indigenous representation. ...

Bank Australia sets interim 2030 net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... operational emissions make up less than 2% of our total emissions. "Our SBTi-validated target covers 82% of lending and banking activities... it's comprehensive, holistic and independently validated." SBTi is a partnership between the Carbon Disclosure ...

Leading Harvest launches Australian ag sustainability standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... Harvest also reached companies across the supply chain and industry groups and worked with Rabobank, a Dutch multinational banking and financial services company with a large food and agribusiness division, Conservis, a farm management software company ...

Fink counts the cost of "easy money" in annual letter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... In a letter where ESG and climate change took a backseat to concerns over inflation, fears of another incipient global banking crisis and continued geopolitical tensions, Fink said "we don't know yet whether the consequences of easy money and regulatory ...

Australian Ethical hires CIO, head of impacts and ethics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... the $30 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation. Theau has more than 30 years of investment management and investment banking experience across Europe and Australia with global organisations including Hastings, Westpac, ABN Amro, Macquarie, UBS and ...

Frasers Property inks fresh sustainability-linked loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... lead arrangers, underwriters, bookrunners and sustainability coordinators - ANZ Bank, Barclays Bank, Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation, and United Overseas Bank Limited. ANZ was the facility agent. "Sustainable financing plays an important role in ...

APRA publishes results of banking climate vulnerability assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... sector to participate in the exercise. The CVA was conducted to assess the estimated future impact of climate change on the banking sector and how the banks might respond to anticipated physical and transition risks. The results suggest that climate ...

Goodments founder launches ethical research platform for advisers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... founded Goodments, a retail investing product that matched investors to shares based on their sustainability values. Mobile banking app Douugh bought Goodments in 2021. Ethic Adviser is now in the process of raising a seed round of $1 million. Ethic ...