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Juicing up gender equity with Orange Bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UN CDF), Australian Aid, the US DFC, Nuveen, ANZ and others. The sustainable bond sector is growing quickly - according to data from Bloomberg, total cumulative ESG issuance ...

Frasers Property inks fresh sustainability-linked loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... underwritten by a syndicate of four banks as mandated 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. ...

ANZ leads issuance of US$50m gender-lens bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
ANZ has led the issuance of a $50 million four-year Women's Livelihood Bond 5 (WLB5), a gender-lens sustainable bond that aligns with the Orange Bond Principles. The bond has been issued by Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), a pioneer in impact investing ...

APRA publishes results of banking climate vulnerability assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... actually look like. In a lot of ways, this is a first go at this. "Our goal is to get a sense of what it could look like." ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie Bank, National Australia Bank and Westpac participated in the process, which saw them model the ...

New Forests launches ANZ forestry and agriculture fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
New Forests has launched a fourth Australia and New Zealand forestry and agriculture-based fund with the aim of raising $600 million in the next two to three years. The $10 billion global nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies investment ...

Regulatory roundup on key sustainability developments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... Rowell said that in November, APRA will receive aggregated results of the consolidated analysis of the climate exposures of ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie Bank, National Australia Bank and Westpac. "The results will provide insights on the potential ...

APRA flags extension of climate vulnerability asssessment to super, insurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... Rowell said that in November, APRA will receive aggregated results of the consolidated analysis of the climate exposures of ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie Bank, National Australia Bank and Westpac. FS Sustainability was a media partner to the ASFI ...

CEFC, ANZ provide discount finance for SMEs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is allocating up to $200 million with ANZ to provide discounted clean energy finance to business customers. The investment is designed to encourage small to medium-sized (SME) businesses to invest in activities ...

Directors engage on breadth of ESG issues facing companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... board member and Transurban non-executive director Patricia Cross, South32 chair and non-executive director Karen Wood and ANZ chair Paul O'Sullivan provided insights on the material issues facing directors generally and their company boards specifically ...

Sustainable debt, finance in strong start to 2022: ANZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... sustainability, and sustainability-linked bond volumes have had their strongest first quarter yet, according to information from ANZ. ANZ says that the aggregate volume for bonds in those categories in the first quarter of 2022 was $7.09 billion, with ...