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Governance Institute appoint Simon Pordage president

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... deputy company secretary for ANZ Banking Group and prior to that, head of board support for Barclays PLC in the United Kingdom. He has also held other official roles with Governance Institute over the past 10 years, including chair of its major policy ...

ASIC issues report on payday lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... total consumer credit market in Australia. By way of comparison, ASIC notes the payday lending industry in the United Kingdom "is estimated to be writing £2.5 billion worth of loans and makes up approximately 1.2% of the total consumer credit market." ...

AMP Capital reviews corporate governance activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... ensuring accountability and transparency between shareholders and company management. AMP Capital pointed to the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia as examples where institutional investors have outgrown individual investors and there are ...

SVA calls for $200-250m funding for social investment bank

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... further funding by government tapping unclaimed superannuation and bank accounts, as has been previously done by the United Kingdom's Big Society Capital Bank. "Our first-hand experience suggests that there is market appetite amongst impact investors ...

PRI signatory assets top US$45 trillion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... Endowment (United States), Credit Suisse Private Banking & Wealth Management (Switzerland), Green Investment Bank (United Kingdom), Unilever Pension Fund (Netherlands), Greater Manchester Pension Fund (United Kingdom) and Morgan Stanley Investment Management ...

Stewardship: the costs of developing social enterprises

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... space are also small. Sandy Blackburn-Wright, a co-founder of IMPACT Australia, notes that in the United States and United Kingdom, there is more government partnering with institutional investors to create larger pools of funds and gain greater economies ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... largest issuer of climate-themed bonds, with US$127 billion in issuance, more than one third the total universes. The United Kingdom issued US$50 billion and France issued US$41 billion, rounding out the top three. The vast majority of the climate-themed ...

Publish What You Pay to take case to new government

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Canadian extractive companies andSwitzerland said it was also considering the possibility of similar legislation. The United Kingdom and France have also committed to implementing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). "Canada's announced ...

GNDI comments on proposed Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Zealand (IoDNZ), the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa (IoDSA), the Institute of Directors (IoD) in the United Kingdom, the Malaysian Alliance of Corporate Directors (MACD), and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) in the United ...

HSBC finds US$364 billion in climate themed bond issuance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... largest issuer of climate-themed bonds, with US$127 billion in issuance, more than one third the total universes. The United Kingdom issued US$50 billion and France issued US$41 billion, rounding out the top three. The vast majority of the climate-themed ...