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Good Shepherd Microfinance launches Speckle, online cash-loan service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... a non-profit. Good Shepherd Microfinance took out a banking license to operate Speckle, and is backed by longtime partner NAB. "Part of what we're doing here, is that we've heard for years and years that the for-profit, small amount loan sector has been ...

NAB issues Australian residential mortgage-backed bond with green tranche

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
National Australia Bank (NAB) has issued an Australian residential mortgage-backed bond with a green tranche that has been certified by the Climate Bond Initiative, an Australia first. Ian Learmonth, CEO, Clean Energy Finance Corporation NAB has issued ...

UNEP FI select Oliver Wyman, Mercer as expert advisers on TCFD-related project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... United Nations Environment Programme - Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). UNEP FI and a working group of 16 banks including ANZ and NAB are undertaking the project, which was established in June 2017 after the final recommendations by the Financial Stability ...

Willis Towers Watsons joins Climate Bonds Partners Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... product unique to this class, and we are proud to be working with the CBI to continue developing the green finance market." NAB, ANZ, and the Investor Group on Climate Change are all members of the partners program. "Asset managers and asset owners will ...

CEFC invests $200m into QIC Shopping Centre Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will invest $200 million into QIC's Global Real Estate flagship Shopping Centre Fund (QSCF) with the goal of improving energy performance across the QSCF shopping centre portfolio. Ian Learmonth, CEO, Clean ...

IGCC survey finds institutional investors seeking to increase low-carbon investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
One hundred percent of institutional investors intend to increase their low-carbon investment allocations over coming years, but policy uncertainty and lack of investable deals are critical barriers to fulfilling these intentions, according to a new ...

NAB, Life Without Barriers launch social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
National Australia Bank (NAB) and Life Without Barriers have launched a social benefit bond (SBB) that targets criminal offending by young people in Queensland. James Wadell, director of NAB's Capital Financing Solutions team This is Queensland's first ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance, NAB mark 5th anniversary of Good Money launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
The Good Money retail stores pioneered by Good Shepherd Microfinance in partnership with the National Australia Bank (NAB) and state governments have turned five. L-R: Adam Mooney, Chief Executive Officer at Good Shepherd Microfinance, Corinne Proske ...

International Finance Corporation launches NZ dollar-denominated green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... IFC said. BNZ is acting as arranger and ANZ Bank and BNZ are acting as joint lead managers on the bond. "BNZ and the whole NAB group are extremely proud to work with IFC in bringing the first green bond to the New Zealand market," said Mike Faville ...

Responsible Investment assets top $622 billion: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... products/structures/deals that are of larger." O'Connor noted that there has been an increase in dedicated impact theme bonds, highlighting NAB's Gender Equality Bond, the issuance of certified green bonds, and the July issuance of Australian Catholic ...