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MUFG Bank structures $333 million green financing deal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... SoftBank for achieving yet another milestone towards its sustainability agenda," said Colin Chen, MUFG's Head of Structured Finance, Asia Investment Banking Division. "At MUFG, we share the same commitment towards environmentally and socially responsible ...

The articles you read in 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... practice, working for public and private sector clients on climate risk, renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable finance. Prior to that, he was executive director of Climate Strategies, and senior strategy manager at Carbon Trust, both in ...

Report calls out AIA's coal-based assets, policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... doubts about AIA's investment management." "AIA has committed to the TCFD, PRI, and CA100," said Norman Waite, energy finance analyst at IEEFA "It's only one of 11 insurers around the world to have done so. However, AIA is the only one of that group ...

Government to launch inquiry into financial sector and climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... this article was published, but in media interviews, Pitt raised concerns as to why banks and insurers were not extending finance and insurance to projects in the fossil fuel and mining sector, saying that resources industries were still a significant ...

Stakeholders mull impact of Rio Tinto report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... objectives: collaborate with First Nations Peoples' to increase their voices in responsible investment and sustainable finance; assist with facilitating First Nations peoples' conversations for the responsible investment sector; facilitate education ...

Green loans to finance light rail, battery storage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... megawatt hours (MWh) of energy, equivalent to powering up to 57,000 Australian homes, BNP Paribas said. "We believe project finance could become increasingly important in the delivery of battery projects across Australia," said Karine Delvallee, head ...

Robeco launches SDG-linked credit income fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... and they have been integrating ESG for the past 10 years. Obviously, they know the companies inside out, they can read finance statements, use external sources and the beauty here is because the step one is revenue based activity based there is a lot ...

First Sentier Investor hires IR director for direct infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... women in funds management, having founded the 3TOM networking group. She was also a founding member of the 100 Women in Finance (Sydney) organising committee and is a member of the CFA Diversity Committee. Kabashima said she is pleased to be joining ...

Industry considers Australian sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
The development of an industry-led taxonomy to provide common definitions of sustainable finance across investment, banking and insurance is one of the next steps in implementing the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative roadmap (ASFI), but while ...

Vellum Funds Management builds property with NDIS units

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... comprising of five other Australian business leaders with experience across property, super, responsible investment, banking, finance, aged care and not-for-profits. A new investor in the company, AustralianSuper also have two board seats, filled by ...