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Treasury Corporation of Victoria issues green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... National Australia Bank acted as sole arranger, green bond structuring agent and lead manager for the bond. DNV GL Business Assurance ("DNV GL") acted as TCV's independent Verification Agent. "The Andrews Labor Government is proud to lead the country ...

Westpac Group issues $500m climate bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... that they overseeing the assets and because it has become a benchmark around global bonds, there is an alignment about assurance and confidence." The renewable energy generation projects have a total capacity of approximately 800MW, Westpac noted, and ...

LQRA to deepen verification collaboration with CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance (LQRA), a provider of professional assurance services, will deepen its verification collaboration with CDP, and will focus more on providing best practice resources for companies. LQRA is one of the founding members ...

London Stock Exchange joins Climate Bonds Partnership Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... breadth of the green bond sector," Rathi added. The Climate Bonds Initiative seeks to build "robust and transparent" assurance frameworks around green bond investment, said Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative CEO. "LSE Group has taken a leading position ...

Altius Sustainable Bond Fund certified by RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... senior portfolio manager, Altius Asset Management. Altius pursued RIAA accreditation as a way of providing third party assurance to retail consumers that the fund is sustainable, Goodhand said. "We'd gone down the path of developing the product and having ...

Ernst & Young joins Climate Bonds Initiative as partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... CEO. "In addition, EY have been actively contributing to the development of Version 2.0 of the Standard as part of our Assurance Roundtable," Kidney said. "We're now very excited to have the opportunity to deepen that relationship and work more broadly ...

Sustainability reporting improving, room to grow: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... in 2013.Nearly 809% - 78% - of companies have their report externally assured, while 10% of those who have external assurance are assured to a reasonable level, WBCSD said. "Our research and ongoing exchanges with members indicate that corporate reporting ...

KPMG Australia buys Banarra

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... Recent clients include MMG Limited, Sydney Airport and Westpac. Banarra expanded from report-related sustainability assurance to full service human rights and social impact advisory business services including human rights risk, ethical sourcing and ...

Investors, payday lenders engage on lending practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
A coalition of investors and other stakeholders that are engaging with ASX-listed payday lenders and goods rental companies are finding that the companies are receptive to their concerns over lending policies to financially vulnerable Australians. Michael ...

ANZ issues $600m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... brought a level of extra complexity as ANZ had to go through the certification process and will have to undergo regular assurance on use of proceeds going forward, White said. "Going forward, EY will verify the assets and the pool, initially on a six-month ...