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Industry leaders establish Banking and Finance Oath

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... initiative of the Banking and Finance Ethics Panel, a working group led industry representatives including AMP Capital, Commonwealth Bank, MLC and Morgan Stanley, among others, under the aegis of the St James Ethics Centre. It is a registered company ...

The UpSide interview: Prof. Michael Grubb

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... the British Council and supporting partners Norton Rose, the Centre for Sustainability Leadership, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Investor Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Business Australia.

Transparency International publishes anti-corruption report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Banking, with an 88% score, was the fourth most transparent global financial services and had an overall score of 6.3. Commonwealth Bank was judged to have a 38% score for transparency on anti-corruption programmes and an overall score of 3.1. "The best ...

The UpSide interview: Dr Fraser Thompson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... the British Council and supporting partners Norton Rose, the Centre for Sustainability Leadership, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Investor Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Business Australia.

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... defining event in our nation's history. The 1967 referendum saw over 90 per cent of Australians vote to give the Commonwealth the power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and recognise them in the national census. 2012 marks ...

New South Wales announces first social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
Westpac Group, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the Benevolent Society have been selected by the New South Wales (NSW) government to trial an AU$10m social benefit bond - a financing vehicle that will fund a program to assist at-risk families. The ...

WOB: ASX200 companies not meeting gender diversity standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... January 2011, or by their 2012 report. The WOB report found that the banks scored highest on the traffic light system - Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Westpac and ANZ all scored green lights, and Suncorp-Metway and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank were close behind ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... signatories were: ATI Asset Management, Australian Ethical Investment, BT Investment Management, Catholic Super, Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, Dalton Nicol Reid, Dexus Property Group, MTAA Superannuation Fund, Perpetual Investments, The GPT ...

Australian Ethical names new chief investment officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... previously served as head of research. He joined Australian Ethical in 2006, and had previously worked in various commonwealth government departments as a senior economist. See Also: Australian Ethical names exec director business development

KPMG: companies should review anti-corruption policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... partner. "Any organisation in Australia that deals with overseas governments will be impacted by it." Currently, the Commonwealth Criminal Code Act of 1995 says that a facilitation payment defence can be accepted if "[t]he value of the benefit must be ...