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SEFA: developing sustainable loan portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... carefully and slowly to build up a sustainable loan book rather than get a lot of money out the door. The trick in any banking activity isn't the money going out the door, but the money coming back in the door when it's supposed to be." SEFA is one of ...

ANZ, GPT Group named 2012 DJSI supersector leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
ANZ Bank and GPT Group have been named supersector leaders for banking and real estate in the 2012 Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) review. DJSI has released its annual update to its sustainability indices, as announced by SAM, an investment ...

Industry leaders establish Banking and Finance Oath

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
A group of professionals from the banking and finance industry have established the Banking and Finance Oath (BFO), an organisation that seeks to restore trust and encourage ethical behaviour in the financial services industry. Stephen Dunne, AMP Capital ...

Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... panel. Carapiet comes to the CEFC after a 22-year career at Macquarie Bank, where he served as head of the investment banking division of Macquarie Capital and became the executive chair in 2010. He is currently the chair of SAS Trustee Corporation NSW ...

ANZ a leader in financial inclusion, with scope to expand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Laurence in 2006, 1,409 loans have been approved to 1,259 customers with an average default rate of 2%. But changes to the banking environment in the past six years mean that there is wider availability of finance to people with low incomes, including ...

Transparency International publishes anti-corruption report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... within the financial services sector, with 96% transparency on anti-corruption programmes and an overall score of 6. ANZ Banking, with an 88% score, was the fourth most transparent global financial services and had an overall score of 6.3. Commonwealth ...

NAB partners to launch Victorian microfinance retail hubs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... of repayment for credit cards, Mooney said. NAB says that while some Good Money customers may transition to mainstream banking products and services, it isn't central to NAB's strategy. "We know that may occur, but it's not a core driver because the ...

bankmecu, Foresters Community Finance partner on loan scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... see the bank provide financing to organisations that are working with Foresters, said Steven Lynch, national community banking manager at bankmecu. "Foresters have built up a really strong reputation in the community asset building space, assisting community ...

Integrated reporting to provide analysis, innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... providers, said Damien Walsh, bankmecu's managing director. The bank is customer-owned and operates under the cooperative banking model. "[W]e saw that the tenets of sustainable development are very, very closely aligned with the philosophy of cooperative ...

CEFC moves to Sydney as industry prepares for its launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... projects are around 5MW in size and require AU$10-15m in funding. The size of the project puts them into the commercial banking divisions, but the complexity of the project and the technology risk it represents requires institutional levels of due diligence ...