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Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... proliferated in the payday lending business, we believe many of these target employed clients as a means of lowering bad debt risk, and therefore the perception of predatory lending is lower. In addition, ASIC has strong oversight of consumer lending ...

Social, regulatory risks to growing payday lending market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... fraud incidents. But the biggest thing to us from a social perspective is that people are making decisions about taking out debt without having a cooling-off period. We strongly advocate a cooling-off period such that if people apply for a loan at midnight ...

AMP Capital to advise GII on renewable infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... such as airports, to power/utilities and already have a number of renewable energy assets in our infrastructure equity and debt portfolios worldwide. There has been a lot of focus on expanding the renewable energy sector as part of a shift in Japan towards ...

Carnegie Wave Energy launches Perth Wave Energy Project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... on the CEFC facility is a watershed moment for Carnegie as this is the first time ever that Carnegie has achieved a pure debt finance deal," said Aidan Flynn, Carnegie's chief financial officer. 'It follows on from the commissioning of the Perth Wave ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance, Suncorp pilot microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... operating costs associated with establishing the store, plus AU$2.4 million over three years from January 2015 to support the Debt Deduct program and the coordination of microfinance products, according to the South Australia state budget.

Sustainable Melbourne Fund launches Solar Finance program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... the collection of the EUC. The repayment structure and its existence as a statutory charge makes the EUAs a form of senior debt, with significantly less investment risk to investors. It also matches the duration of energy efficiency savings. EUAs can ...

KKR invests in Sundrop Farms expansion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... in Australia and internationally." The Clean Energy Finance Corporation's (CEFC) made an early commitment of cornerstone debt financing for the project, making a commitment of up to AU$40 million for the AU$140 million project, according to CEFC's 2013-2014 ...

NAB issues $150m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... solutions," said Antony Cahill, NAB group executive for product and markets "This deal reinforces NAB's position as the largest debt financier of renewable energy in Australia, provides the sector with a new funding source, and highlights our market-leading ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... In October, Westpac announced it had signed its largest single community housing finance deal, providing AU$61 million in debt finance to SGCH for the construction of 275 new dwellings in the Sydney metropolitan region. SGCH is one of the largest community ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... funds to finance large-scale greenhouse-gas pollution, and don't use members' deposits to directly lend to, buy equity or debt in, any large-scale greenhouse polluting activities from fossil fuel exploration, extraction, production and use," said Steve ...