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UBS hires ESG specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... Camille Wynter as head of Australian ESG Research. Wynter - who has more than ten years' experience in sustainable finance - joins the investment banker from the Commonwealth Bank where she was director of sustainable finance. Before that, she spent ...

HSBC Asset Management launches ESG Asia bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... fixed income investment management, and Wilson Yip, associate director, fixed income. The fund meets Article 8 Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) classification. "Last year we saw Asia issue a record amount of green, social and sustainability-linked ...

ANZ takes $50 million stake in Pollination Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... helping drive the transition to net zero and support biodiversity. "ANZ have got a really great track record in sustainable finance and are a really strong institutional bank," said Pollination partner Zoe Whitton. "We at Pollination are spending a lot ...

Strong APAC demand for sustainable, impact assets: UBS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... sustainability focus and Impact investing assets grew by 63% to US$207 billion, said Desmond Kuek, head of sustainable finance, Asia Pacific and global head of sustainable finance group, group sustainability and impact, UBS. Within UBS's global asset ...

Predictions for robust investment in green transition, sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... transition will charge ahead in 2022 and beyond, with different implications for key commodities, countries, and sustainable finance. Barclays recently released a report, Mining the green transition, which assessed five key metals: copper, lithium, aluminium ...

TCorp recaps performance of $5.2 billion sustainability bond programme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... government," said Rob Kenna, head of funding and balance sheet, TCorp. "There are two government committees around sustainable finance with joint representation at each, so you do have that overarching NSW policy view embedded in the program. "The debate ...

Treasury Wine Estates inks sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainability journey with the first ever Sustainability Linked Loan for the company," said Noemie Peiffer, head of sustainable finance, capital markets group, global banking Asia Pacific at BNP Paribas. "As one of the largest wine companies in the ...

FSI unlocks green finance for unlisted infrastructure fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... under both the Climate Bond Initiative standards and the EU Green taxonomy," said Camille Wynter, director, sustainable finance at Commonwealth Bank. The framework for the green tranche was externally verified by second party opinion provider DMV, in ...

Citi launches sustainability-linked supply chain finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainability. "Under [Citi CEO] Jane Fraser's leadership, we have made commitments in terms of US$1 trillion in sustainable finance by 2030, which includes a US$500 billion environmental finance goal and a US$500 billion social finance goal," Southall ...

Regulatory action on ESG a key concern for investors: BNP Paribas Securities Services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... proscriptive approach to ESG investment reporting, or a principles-based approach? A: The European Union's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation is proscriptive. The rationale behind this is that the European Union wants to put measures in place ...