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Wesfarmers director to retire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... although the annual report discloses work towards sustainability targets across divisions. In March of this year, Commonwealth Bank and Wesfarmers signed a $400 million three-year bilateral sustainability-linked loan which will link social and environmental ...

NZ Super appoints Rosemary Vilgan to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... responsible investment activities and supporting good businesses to thrive. Vilgan is currently the chairperson of the Commonwealth Bank Group Staff Superannuation Fund and the chairperson of the Federal Government's Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation ...

Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure hires ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... experience in financial services. She was most recently senior manager, ESG and corporate responsibility, at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Hall has also worked at AMP Capital, Ironbark Asset Management based in Australia, and Wellington Management ...

Commonwealth Bank provides sustainability-linked finance to Wesfarmers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
Commonwealth Bank and Wesfarmers have signed a $400 million three-year 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 ...

ASX200 boards above 30% women in aggregate, but six have none

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... percentage of women on their boards are Bapcor, with three women, or 60%, NIB Holdings, with four women, or 57.1%, Commonwealth Bank, with rive women, or 55.6%, Medibank Private with five women, or 55.6%, and Woolworths Group, with five women, or 55.6%. ...

Taskforce recommends government support to build social impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
A landmark Social Impact Investing Taskforce is recommending that the commonwealth government take a "coordinated and long term" approach to guide its involvement in the social impact investing market. Kylie Charlton, managing director of Australian ...

Analysis: too big to be sustainable?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... potentially criminal penalties the bank and employees will face. Westpac does not stand alone in AML/KYC failures. Commonwealth Bank of Australia paid a then-record fine of $700 million to settle proceedings relating to serious breaches of AML/CTF laws. ...

Investors considering their options in voting at Westpac AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... Australian Prudential 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 ...

Business has role to play in protecting human rights: Gillian Triggs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... to the protection of human rights law," she said. "We are extraordinarily the only western democracy and the only commonwealth country in the world that does not have a charter of human rights or some benchmark form of law against which the practices ...

Lawsuit against ExxonMobil heightens Australian directors climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... litigation for a failure to strategically govern for climate related financial risks is not merely theoretical," said Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) Australian Convenor Sarah Barker. "In fact, the hurdles for such litigation in Australia ...