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ANZ leads issuance of US$50m gender-lens bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... enterprises that advance gender equality in developing countries that might not otherwise have access to international capital markets and institutional investors in this way," said ANZ director debt capital markets Sarah Ng. There is also a subordinated ...

Australia to introduce mandatory climate reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... quality, standardised, and reliable climate disclosures will help Australian companies attract investment from global capital markets. "Mandatory climate disclosures will help investors and regulators form an overall picture of the climate risks and ...

Twiggy Forrest invests in Ukraine's post-war green future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... asset management, risk management and technology, and has broad experience advising official sector clients on capital markets topics. The group is a distinct business within the firm, separate and independent from BlackRock's traditional asset management ...

CDP to adopt ISSB climate standard from 2024

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... trillion in assets. "The ISSB is committed to delivering an effective, efficient disclosure eco-system for global capital markets, resulting in decision-useful climate-related disclosures," said ISSB chair Emmanuel Faber. "By aligning the CDP platform ...

Altius Asset Management publishes first impact report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... methodologies for further disclosure. "One of the things that we think is important is that it sends signals to capital markets on the place of green bonds and the way in which they can help with impact and with carbon footprints," Bovingdon said. "It ...

Government commits to establishing green finance standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... assistance around skill acquisition and deepening our skill base and our workforce capacity, the finance market and our capital markets must have a common set of standards around which we can assess the performance of business. "Unless our capital markets ...

Energy insecurity won't halt green transition: Northern Trust Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... term, the green transition is "still a go," according to Northern Trust Asset Management's latest five-year capital markets outlook. Northern Trust Asset Management has identified the green transition as one of the forward-looking themes playing ...

Singapore to issue inaugural sovereign green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... structured to align with the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) Green Bond Principles 2021 and the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum ASEAN Green Bond Standards 2018. MAS has appointed DBS Bank Ltd. (DBS), Deutsche Bank AG Singapore Branch (DB) ...

Sustainable debt, finance in strong start to 2022: ANZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... also the wide array of sustainable finance options available for Australian companies," said HSBC head of debt capital markets, Australia Andrew Duncan. "We expect SLBs and other sustainability linked financing to become more popular as ESG becomes an ...

Australian Ethical names heavyweights to investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... Steve Rankine is the former head of asset management at Hastings Funds Management and, prior to that, MD of Debt Capital Markets at Westpac Institutional Bank. He now sits on several investment committees and boards across funds management, infrastructure ...