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NAB, Ramsay Health Care in ESG derivative transaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... targets that are both credible and ambitious, the same logic applies to a derivative," said NAB global head of sustainable finance David Jenkins. NAB announced in September that it would offer sustainability-linked derivatives in Australia, building ...

Paradice Investment Management hires ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... ownership in early 2019. Recently, Maddy helped prepare Pendal Group's UK business for the introduction of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). "I am very happy to welcome Maddy to the team, her skillset and experience is a valued ...

CEFC, Future Super back green bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... are not mutually exclusive. "Australia is in the early stages of a clean energy transition and a shift to sustainable finance. Funds such as the Green and Sustainable Bond Fund can capitalise on both these trends, providing an important new investment ...

Charter Hall signs green development loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... delivering environmental and social returns in addition to investor returns." Charles Davis, Managing Director, Sustainable Finance and ESG at Commonwealth Bank, said Charter Hall's transaction opens the door for other developers to follow. "This ...

ING advises infrastructure company on green finance framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... low-carbon future and net zero emissions by 2050. "Jemena is a long-time client of ours," noted ING head of sustainable finance and global capital markets APAC Helge Muenkel. "It all started with a top down vision within Jemena that the company has to ...

HSBC Australia to explore mangrove bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... two-year project builds on previous work conducted by Earth Security in collaboration with HSBC's Centre for Sustainable Finance and other global partners. This previous work identified the opportunity for municipal districts and cities to issue ...

NAB launches sustainability-linked derivatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... organisations to set and meet ambitious sustainability improvement targets," said David Jenkins, global head of sustainable finance, National Australia Bank. "The financial incentive can be more material than it would be in the loan context by virtue ...

PRI augments Australian team with hires

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... journalist in New York, London and Sydney and joins us from National Australia Bank where she wrote about sustainable finance for its corporate and institutional business. Thieberger is based in Melbourne. Satoko Asai joins PRI as relationship manger ...

NSW Land Registry Services in $300m sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... and demonstrate a tangible link between sustainability and financial outcomes," said Eliza Mathews, head of sustainable finance, Westpac Institutional Bank. "These were identified by the company as areas that are material to them and the sustainability ...

Supermarket giant inks $1.3bn sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... long list of potential KPIs that could be possible for a sustainability linked loan," said ANZ director - sustainable finance Tania Smith. "We then worked with the Coles team to understand the historic data for those metrics, looking at peer comparisons ...