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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 ...

HESTA commits additional $40m to Social Impact Investment Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... Major said. "Our cost of capital in terms of debt can be competitive with others, although we have lost opportunities to the banks because their cost of capital can be lower," Major said. "When it comes to equity, that's a more difficult proposition ...

Ausbil outlines 2017 engagement activities in annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... focus on continued clean-up of the environment in China, wage inflation and underpayment of workers, the Royal Commission on banks, as well as continuing on the aforementioned topics.

ESG analysis important to emerging market credit: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... 25% of revenue associated with SDG targets. "There are opportunities with green bonds, and we have been corresponding with banks around the world expressing our desire for more green bonds," Kibble said. "If you look at a broader alignment with the [Sustainable ...