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Good Shepherd Microfinance welcomes inquiry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... "What we see a significant opportunity for investments, up front, by the government, the Reserve Bank of Australia or the banks themselves in investing directly in community finance," Mooney said. "There is tremendous opportunity in community finance/microfinance. ...

WBCSD named supporter of Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Canopy Programme said. "We are extremely pleased to be supporting the NCD, which provides a unique platform to help mobilise banks, investors and insurance companies to sustainably manage the planet's natural capital, and better understand its full value," ...

NAB sets five-year corporate responsibility commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... helping people have a healthy relationship with money." The second pillar - building prosperous communities - covers the banks' commercial business and investment activities, but will also communicate their work with not for profits, employee volunteering ...

SEB, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley top climate bond underwriters

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... the market of bonds that are labelled climate bonds into the unlabelled sphere, Citi, Barclays and HSBC are the leading banks in terms of the number of deals in the climate bond space, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative, which is drawing on data ...

NAB's 'Wealth of Opportunity' a new CSR narrative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... people on low incomes by 2018 through that partnership. The second pillar - building prosperous communities - covers the banks' commercial business and investment activities, but will also communicate their work with not for profits, employee volunteering ...

YES BANK signs on to Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... weather extremes, water availability, ecosystem degradation - can affect the loans, investments and other products on a banks' balance sheet. The NCD aims to provide insight to uncover these and solutions how to address these issues in credit risk management ...

City of Melbourne, NAB, Eureka Funds Management sign EUA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
Eureka Funds Management and National Australia Bank (NAB) have financed a AU$7 million environmental upgrade agreement (EUA) that will retrofit a Melbourne office tower to reduce carbon emissions by more than 600 tonnes a year. Signing of the AU$7 million ...

Beyond Zero Emissions proposes model for retrofitting houses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... "Yes, you could, but the challenge is having the existing lenders comfortable with that. We were dealing with institutional banks and not the retail side of things, and so the advice at the time was to limit this to commercial only where the banks were ...

Climate Bonds Initiative releases criteria for solar assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... Association (EPIA), Wolfeaware, and the Desertec Industrial Initiative (DII). "Certification will be most useful for utilities and banks looking to issue corporate bonds where the proceeds are then allocated to solar assets," Kidney said in a statement ...

GRESB signs up new partner, members

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... investors in the real estate sector, has become a partner. IVBN is made up of large pension funds, insurance companies, banks and both listed and non-listed real estate funds and companies, and members invest across real estate sectors. GRESB will organize ...