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SEFA makes second loan, funds affordable housing purchase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... AU$10m through its founding shareholders, which also include the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council, Community Sector Banking and private individuals and foundations as well as Triodos Bank. SEFA has loaned AU$450,000 to Three Sistas, a social enterprise ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... together in an organised, coordinated way, within the financial services industry, people from super industry, people from banking, etc., and to get them together to share ideas and agree to work on certain things. The second thing is that it will be ...

Australia/NZ companies lag in Corporate Responsibility Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... profits, 10 times the finance sector average, platinum sponsorship of CUFA, the development agency for the Australian mutual banking sector, being awarded the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) Employer of Choice for Women citation ...

NAB publishes 2013 plan for Indigenous employment, inclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... employees, in 2012, the bank also introduced internships, employing six Indigenous university students to work in personal banking, business banking, agribusiness banking, group governance and legal, and people and culture during their semester breaks. ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... AU$10m through its founding shareholders, which also include the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council, Community Sector Banking and private individuals and foundations as well as Triodos Bank. SEFA has loaned AU$450,000 to Three Sistas, a social enterprise ...

Q&A with Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... challenge is that there's an oligopolisation process in the finance industry at work, very much tracking what happened in the banking sector. The big four banks have invested heavily into wealth management and financial planning. I guess you'd have to ...

Community Sector Banking to extend microfinance pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Additional government funding will allow Community Sector Banking to extend loans to hundreds more people in Queensland and northern New South Wales, according to Peter Quarmby, Community Sector Banking's executive director. Peter Quarmby, Community ...

Government allocates additional funds for microfinance pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Community Sector Banking has extended its Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) contract with the federal government and received an additional AU$448,800 in pilot funding. Community Sector Banking is a specialist banking provider for the ...

Banco Fie joins Global Alliance for Banking on Values

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Banco Fie, a Bolivian grass-roots microfinance institution, is the 22 nd values-based bank to join the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV). GABV is an organization of sustainable banks from around the world, including microfinance banks in emerging ...

KPMG: fraud costs Australian/NZ businesses $373 million

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... there's a problem, they know where the problems are and they do have good controls in place to detect, because from a banking perspective, they don't have room not to." Gill said that in his professional experience, the construction and IT sectors are ...