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bankmecu to participate in GABV bank investment fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015  |  NEWS
bankmecu will participate in an open-ended impact investment fund that will provide values-based banks with capital to promote growth. Damien Walsh, bankmecu managing director The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), of which bankmecu is a ...

Climate Bonds Initiative looks to China's green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... push to green the Chinese economy, Kidney said. He noted that there is a PBOC working group looking at green loans and how banks' risk coverage ratio can be adjusted to give positive weightings to verified green bonds. "There is an overarching sense ...

Future Home Loans to broker fossil fuel free loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... launched Future Home Loans, a mortgage broking company that will assist people in taking up or switching their home loans to banks that do not finance the expansion of the fossil fuel sector. Simon Sheikh, managing director, Future Home Loans As previously ...

Teachers Mutual Bank, NAB on "most ethical" list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... (NAB) are the two Australian companies to be listed in the Ethisphere Institute's Most Ethical Companies for 2015. The two banks joined Brazil's Banco do Brasil S.A. in the Banks: National category of the list. "We are proud to have been named one of ...

Companies, investors cite overlapping materiality: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Reporters and Investors, GRI and RobecoSAM analysed data from companies in two sectors - technology hardware and equipment and banks and diverse financials. The research focused on material aspects listed in GRI reports and RobecoSAM's investor-focused ...

Future Super founders to launch Future Home Loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... branch out into the home loans space by launching a service encouraging people to take up or switch their home loans to banks that do not finance the expansion of the fossil fuel sector. Future Home Loans will launch a national campaign aimed at people ...

Teachers Mutual Bank leads in community investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... 12.6 times the financial services sector average for Australia and New Zealand, Teachers Mutual Bank said. Teachers Mutual Banks' average contribution per full-time employee is AU$3,867, the bank reported. "As a purpose-driven bank, putting profits back ...

INCR working group calls for green bond definitions, framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... procedures to ensure the integrity of green bond issues." See Also: Green Bond Principles jumps to 25 banking supporters Global banks launch voluntary Green Bond Principles

Green bond issuance hits US$36.6 billion for 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... The strong increase in issuance was spurred by new entrants from the corporate and municipal bond side, while development banks "continued to be the backbone of green bond issuance," according to the Climate Bonds Initiative. The development banks account ...

ACCR to continue engaging over banks' carbon disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
The four largest banks in Australia have committed to improving their disclosure of how much of their financing operations go towards emissions-intensive assets, and the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) has said it will this year ...