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CEFC, NAB launch $120m green finance fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... Corporation (CEFC) CEO The CEFC-NAB program will be available across a broad commercial base, with particular focus on agribusiness and regional Australia, the CEFC said. It is designed to finance businesses' moves to higher fuel efficiency vehicles ...

CEFC finances $20m in business energy improvements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and Commonwealth Bank have financed AU$20 million in energy productivity projects for business via the Energy Efficient Loan program. Oliver Yates, Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO The Energy Efficient ...

KKR invests in Sundrop Farms expansion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) has provided growth capital to Sundrop Farms, a South Australia-based arid climate agribusiness. The funding, which comes from KKR's Asian Fund II, will be used to "significantly expand" Sundrop Farms' glasshouse facility ...

Business begins unwinding of carbon tax arrangements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... will hurt all carbon agribusinesses in the land sector." Foley noted that carbon farming is a multi-million dollar agribusiness that generates jobs for Aboriginal people and stimulates economic development of Aboriginal lands. "Aboriginal carbon projects ...

CEFC, CBA finance efficiency upgrades for food processors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
Manufacturers and food processors are using financing from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and Commonwealth Bank to upgrade equipment to increase energy efficiency, save on energy costs and boost competitiveness, according to the CEFC. CEFC ...

NAB sets five-year corporate responsibility commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... know what makes prosperous communities, which is our second key reason," Benson said. "We are one of the largest agribusiness bankers in the world. We are leaders in banking for the health sector, in aged care, we finance small medium and large enterprises ...

NAB publishes 2013 plan for Indigenous employment, inclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... 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. In terms of commitments to business ...

Unconventional gas development poses risks to investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... recovering water, and competition for water as a scare resource between gas industries and other industries such as agribusiness. Finally, there are social/governance risks to consider, Berrutti and Iyer said in their presentation that producer's social ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... buildings and understand the relationships with them." The white paper also looks to the potential of the Australian agribusiness sector to be the "food bowl" for the region, but again, the opportunities come tempered with challenges - infrastructure ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... brand is our retail branches, where we're one of Australia's largest business banks, and we are a huge banker to agribusiness," said Rosemary Bissett, head of sustainability governance and risk, enterprise risk, NAB. "I think that will help you understand ...