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Natixis joins the Climate Bonds Initiative Partners Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... further market growth." The CBI Partnership Program gathers members of the global financial sector, including investors, banks, issuers, service providers as well as governments and related institutions, to promote the development of green bond standards. ...

Lawsuit against ExxonMobil heightens Australian directors climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... emissions. Investors are increasingly viewing climate risk as a material financial issue, as are regulators, as mentioned, and banks with a trend towards differential pricing of interest rates, based on sustainability credentials, emerging in both commercial ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... people who attempt to seek asylum at the US/Mexico border, or who attempt to cross the US/Mexican border, by getting the banks that finance Core Civic and GEO Group to stop lending money. A coalition of more than 80 US-based grassroots organisations ...

A4S to address sustainability, disclosure at World Congress of Accountants

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... financing and really trying to find ways to mainstream, integrated within mainstream financing around some of the works that the banks are doing, some quite interesting revolving credit facility approaches that the CFOs are doing, with discounts for ...

BayernLB joins Climate Bond Initiative as Climate Bonds Partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... financial services provider for the Bavarian and German economies, serving Mittelstand companies and large corporates, savings banks and public authorities, customers in the real estate industry, and retail customers, who are served primarily by the ...

Climate Bond Initiative identifies nearly 400 green infrastructure projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... of 2018, New Zealand saw NZ$200 million issued. "Australia has been one of the good markets in terms of interest from the banks," said Sean Kidney, CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative during a briefing in Melbourne this week. "The four banks and Macquarie ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... grassroots organisations are protesting US President Donald Trump's policy of immigrant detention through a campaign targeting banks JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo for providing debt financing for two for-profit prison companies - Core Civic and GEO ...

Impact investments quadruple to $5 billion in two years: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... earlier this week. The organisations originating these impact investments consist of six asset managers or fund managers; five banks or diversified financial institutions; four development finance institutions; two government agencies; one impact investment ...

CEFC backs Granville Harbour Wind Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... finance for more than 140 smaller-scale clean energy projects via the CEFC's specialist co-financing programs with major banks. "Granville Harbour Wind Farm is part of an increasing focus on greenfield wind energy projects in Tasmania, which will see ...

IFC invests US$75m in Garanti Bank gender bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... financial inclusion, especially for women entrepreneurs. IFC noted that in the last seven years, the IFC has worked with Turkish banks to provide $61 million in financing for women entrepreneurs under its Banking on Women program. "Strengthening women's ...