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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 ...

Bank launches sustainability-linked derivatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... call a 'use of proceeds' product such as a green bond or social bond," said Tessa Dann, a director in ANZ's sustainable finance team. "The sustainability-linked derivative is linked to the achievement of sustainability targets that are meaningful to ...

Setting ESG targets a "first mover advantage" for companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... avoid greenwashing and greenwishing. The market needs to take the high road on what does constitute truly sustainable finance. It is thrown around fast and loose and we need a massive ratcheting up to determine what is additional versus the business ...

Maple-Brown Abbott appoint new head of ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... superannuation, investments, platforms and advice divisions. Pringle has also served as co-chair of the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative (ASFI) technical working group on meeting community expectations. In the last 12 months with Maple-Brown ...