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Good Shepherd Microfinance, IAG pilot microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... available to people who have a household income of less than AU$48,000, and who have a healthcare card or receive Centrelink payments. Microinsurance is presented to Good Shepherd Microfinance clients while they are obtaining loan products, but are not ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance, Suncorp launch insurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... available to people who have a household income of less than AU$48,000, and who have a healthcare card or receive Centrelink payments. The Essentials by AAI product is presented to Good Shepherd Microfinance clients while they are obtaining loan products ...

Investors, payday lenders engage on lending practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... week, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced that Money3 has stopped offering its two-payments 'fixed fee' loan arrangement and agreed to refund more than $100,000 to consumers "following concerns raised by ASIC that it ...

NAB places second green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... BNP Paribas provided the majority of cross-currency swaps and long-dated inflation swaps for the HH2 project's offtake payments, and took the lead in structuring the covenant package. See Also: NAB issues $150m green bond

Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... significant impact on their revenue. CentrePay is a bill paying and budgeting facility for recipients of governmental welfare payments. It allows automatic deductions for bills such as utilities and housing, and consumer leasing payments for household ...

Social, regulatory risks to growing payday lending market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... included in the CentrePay system. CentrePay is a bill paying and budgeting facility for recipients of governmental welfare payments. It allows automatic deductions for bills such as utilities and housing, and consumer leasing payments for household goods ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance, Suncorp pilot microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... modeled on the AAMI Renter's Fire and Theft product, developed with specific changes - the excess is AU$100 and the premium payments are deducted fortnightly from clients' CentreLink payments. "The quotes vary depending on the situation, the level of ...

Canada adopts mining payment regime, Australia next?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... here. Canada's Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act will require oil, gas and mining companies to report their payments to governments worldwide annually. It will come into force no later than 1 June 2015, and will apply to Canadian-listed and ...

Australian companies still lag on anti-corruption policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... business." Australia has been criticised for its lack of enforcement of bribery laws, and for not having banned facilitation payments. However, Australian companies are still exposed to legal risk through international business. Both the US and UK have ...

ACSI: CEO pay, termination pay drop for FY13

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... that the media fixed pay for an ASX100 CEO was AU$1.83 million in FY2013, down from AU$1.95 million in FY12. Termination payments to CEOs have also shrunk by close to 70% over the past five years. The median termination payout to CEOs was AU$1.3 million ...