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Measuring the gap between ASX board ethics, exec performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... delegation, how do they make decision and what criteria do they use to make those decisions?" Rafe took the example of Westpac and CBA based on the findings of the Hayne Royal Commission. The Royal concluded that the poor behaviour of organisations was ...

Australian business face European carbon levy for exports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
Australian businesses risk having to pay an expensive levy to export goods to the European Union based on the intensity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions used in making and shipping products. The European Parliament's environment committee recently ...

MUFG Bank structures $333 million green financing deal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... refinanced a $280 million debt facility, with Canberra Metro assisted by financial advisors MUFG, green loan coordinators ANZ and CBA and mandated lead arranger banks ANZ, CBA, ING, Mizuho, NAB and SMBC. The Canberra Metro debt facility is certified ...

Green loans to finance light rail, battery storage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... refinanced a $280 million debt facility, with Canberra Metro assisted by financial advisors MUFG, green loan coordinators ANZ and CBA and mandated lead arranger banks ANZ, CBA, ING, Mizuho, NAB and SMBC. The Canberra Metro debt facility is certified ...

Forum360 highlights case for virtual shopping for fund managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... active management through virtual meetings. Forum360 which was launched last year by Rowland Hirst, a former Macquarie Bank and CBA executive. The platform is designed to offer a group virtual meeting for investors and advisers to meet with active managers ...

Commonwealth Bank provides sustainability-linked finance to Wesfarmers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... bilateral sustainability-linked loan which will link social and environmental outcomes to the cost of finance. Andrew Hinchliff, CBA group executive for institutional banking and markets The new sustainability-linked loan transforms an existing Wesfarmers ...

Directors urged to exercise legal duties over climate risk as context evolves

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... want to wait for the hook of having a drop in stocks. But even that fact hasn't stopped individuals from filing suit against CBA, or the member challenge to REST Super. We also have strong, explicit signals from ASIC that climate change is a core area ...

Analysis: too big to be sustainable?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... Regulation Authority (APRA)'s response to the Final Report of the Prudential Inquiry into Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). In Westpac's o wn self-assessment, it noted: "[I]t was suggested to the Review Team that there was discouragement ...

Investors considering their options in voting at Westpac AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... Regulation Authority (APRA)'s response to the Final Report of the Prudential Inquiry into Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). In Westpac's own self-assessment, it noted : "[I]t was suggested to the Review Team that there was discouragement of "speak-up" ...

ASIC critiques management of non-financial risk in governance review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... Armour, managing director of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). "As we have seen through the APRA Report into CBA and the findings of the Hayne Royal Commission there is a need for boards, especially in the financial services sector ...