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HSBC Australia to explore mangrove bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... locations, including Brisbane and Darwin, with the potential to do so. "What we're investigating is use of sub-sovereign debt for mangrove protection and restoration," Bhattacharjee said. "In terms of the economic accounting that would be taken into ...

NSW Land Registry Services in $300m sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... commitments to ongoing, measurable actions. The SLL was part of a broader A$1.9 billion refinancing of NSW LRS' existing debt facilities, funded by a consortium of lenders. The Commonwealth Bank and Westpac Banking Corporation were joint sustainability ...

Supermarket giant inks $1.3bn sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... established $1.3 billion in sustainability linked loans (SLL). Coles Group announced they had replaced its $1.3 billion bilateral debt facilities with four-year SLLs. The SLL "draws a direct line between our sustainability performance and our cost of ...

Opinion: The housing burden is large enough to be shared by many parties

SCOTT LANGFORD  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... bondholders. With our own loan of $250 million from this latest NHFIC bond issue, we will have secured $475 million in senior debt facilities across three separate facilities over the three years since Prime Minister Morrison established NHFIC. NHFIC ...

Banks face multi-billion risks from climate change: Accenture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... increased flood risk as an impact to banks' mortgage portfolios, severe weather events leading to re-pricing of sovereign debt and impacting business continuity. The report also cited transition risks including tightening energy efficiency standards ...

Global fund manager launches bond impact strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... by Stephen Liberatore, head of ESG/impact - global fixed income, Anupam Damani, head of international and emerging markets debt, and Jessica Zarzycki, co-portfolio manager for the existing ESG/impact fixed income accounts. "Significant investment is ...

CEFC, CBA finance plastic recycling facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... facility, its first commitment under the Australian Recycling Investment Fund. The CEFC will commit up to $16.5 million in debt finance to a new polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling facility in regional New South Wales. The project will also draw ...

Assessing buy now pay later sector through an ESG lens

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... and BNPL becomes another form of that. It is absolutely a major concern for us. Australia has one of the highest levels of debt in the world and this is adding to it." Afterpay differentiates its product from consumer credit products because it does ...

ASX company signs $1.5bn sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... The new facility comprises three $500m tranches maturing in three, four and five years respectively to refinance existing debt facilities. Ramsay Health Care declined to state the interest rate for the debt facilities, but said that the rate was positively ...

Queensland train project secures $620m green loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... consortium, which includes Aberdeen Standard Investments, John Laing, Itochu Corporation and Alstom. NGR has refinanced its debt through $620 million in certified green financing, structured in line with the Green Loan Principles, 2020 issued by the ...