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NAB, Life Without Barriers launch social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... benefit bond (SBB) that targets criminal offending by young people in Queensland. James Wadell, director of NAB's Capital Financing Solutions team This is Queensland's first SBB, and will seek to reduce recidivism by young people. The bond is arranged ...

CEFC commits to large-scale solar projects developed by Edify Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... focus on funding clean energy projects in the Great Barrier Reef catchment area as part of its Reef Funding Program. "By financing the development of solar farms in the Reef Catchment Area, we are developing cleaner ways of powering local communities ...

Negatively screened funds grow by over 2500% in New Zealand: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... from a quite targeted media campaign that was also importantly linked to legal requirements around cluster munitions financing, which went into a political response, and led to consumers communicating really clearly that that they're not willing to build ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund, Victorian government to spread word on EUAs to SMEs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... upgrade. Currently, 14 councils in Victoria offer EUAs, with a total of 20 projects with project value of $14.5 million financing 1.5Mw of solar power expected by June, said Scott Bocskay, CEO of the Sustainable Melbourne Fund (SMF). EUAs began as an ...

Government to establish $1 bn National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... associations. The announcement was welcomed by superannuation funds. David Atkin, Chief Executive Officer of Cbus, said the new financing structure "should go a long way" to attract new flows of private investment in affordable housing. "Cbus has been ...

CEFC makes tenth large scale solar project allocation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... Queensland, that will help support the development of a pumped hydro project. "Going forward, the CEFC remains committed to financing more large-scale solar projects where we are needed, and we're particularly keen to see projects that support grid stability," ...

CEFC allocates $80 million to Bodangora wind farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... Germany's Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (NORD/LB) bank is co-lending on the Bondangora project, making its first wind financing deal in Australia, as a co-lender to the Bodangora project. "By supporting projects such as Bodangora, which have an ...

NAB raises $500m for first ever gender equality social bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... gender equality, at the upper end of the book build, the bank said. Steve Lambert, executive general manager of capital financing, NAB The NAB Social Bond also added an overlay excluding industries whose primary activities involve alcohol, gambling ...

CEFC to work with SA government on battery finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is working with the South Australian government to develop a "financing package" to support the delivery of the state's grid-scale battery storage project. Oliver Yates, Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) ...

Climate Bonds Standard approves Deloitte France, Deloitte Luxembourg

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... fundamentals components to build the trust that this market will need in the future. Climate adaptation and transition financing needs are gigantic and both corporates and states will play their role, bonds being a key financing instruments." Deloitte ...