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ANZ to partner with AWA in SE Asia program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... governments, and both local and Australian companies operating in the region, said Katharine Tapley, ANZ director sustainable finance solutions. "The reason we partnered with the AWA relates to our geographical footprint," Tapley said. "They approached ...

ANZ issues $600m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
ANZ has issued an AU$600 million green bond that will finance green property, wind power and solar projects. The bond - ANZ's first green bond and the second issued by an Australian bank - is five-year fixed rate, priced at 99.384 and an 80 bps spread ...

ACCSR tracks Australian/NZ progress towards CSR innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... of organisations that report that CSR helps access new markets, something that participants in the telecommunications, finance and insurance industries reported, ACCSR said. In terms of priorities for the year ahead, respondents identified stakeholder ...

LGS joins Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... PDC signatories commit to decarbonise their portfolios, and was co-founded last year by the United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) the fourth National pension fund of Sweden, AP4, Europe's largest asset manager Amundi and CDP. In addition ...

Teachers Mutual Bank win AB +F ESG award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... Teachers Mutual Bank was recognised as Best Bank in Socially Responsible Performance (ESG) at the Asia-Pacific Banking and Finance (AB+F) Awards. This is the second time the bank has won the award, having previously been recognised in 2013. Teachers ...

VicSuper signs on to Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... signatory to the Natural Capital Declaration (NCD), the first Australian superannuation fund to do so. NCD is a global finance-led initiative convened by the Global Canopy Programme (GCP) and the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). ...

Victorian government boosts Good Money funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... offer people on low incomes a viable alternative to high cost payday lenders," said Corinne Proske, head of community finance and development at NAB. "We know that Good Money is doing just this with more than half of its customers saying that they do ...

BNY Mellon offers ESG data to depositary receipt clients

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... owners such as institutional investors. "Yes, there's interest, but it's early days," Gresham said. "I sit the social finance council for the bank, and I think if you're looking more broadly at what BNY Mellon is doing today, it's interesting in terms ...

Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative issues communication

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... is convened by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the UN Global Compact, the UN Environment Program's Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), and PRI.

bankmecu to participate in GABV bank investment fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... director The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), of which bankmecu is a member, has launched the Sustainability | Finance | Real Economies fund (SFRE, pronounced Sapphire). Investors have already committed over US$40million to SFRE, and GABV's ...