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Former APRA chair joins ASX board

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024
... public policy in both domestic and international roles. He has previously served as the chair of APRA and the secretary general of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. In his role as APRA chair, he served on the Reserve Bank of Australia's payment ...

Hopes for action at "implementation" COP27

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2022
The COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh has been labelled an implementation COP, where governments, investors and other actors are called upon to demonstrate how they're going to implement what was promised a year ago in Glasgow at COP26. However, others have ...

Lessons from GPIF: Mizuno

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... as chief investment officer at Japanese Government Investment Fund (GPIF) he declined an invitation by the UN Secretary General to join the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance. "At that time, the Japanese government did not commit to net zero. I felt it was ...

Super funds snap up local renewable asset

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2019
... previous investments in renewable overseas. "Earlier this year First State Super was asked by the United Nations Secretary General to participate in the Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance to consider ways we can unlock private capital ...

Macquarie boss joins climate change commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
... climate adaptation solutions. The initiative is led by tech billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates, former UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon and World Bank chief executive Kristalina Georgieva. Wikramanayake is one of the 28 commissioners chosen from ...

APRA appoints new chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
... of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). Byres became the first Australian to be appointed secretary general to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the global forum responsible for the G20 banking agenda. He was also central ...

Corporate governance still needs to improve in Asian markets

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... corporate governance. While Singapore scored 69% and Hong Kong 66%, they are still issues of concern, according to secretary general of the organisation Jamie Allen. According to Allen, investors, companies and regulators in the Asian markets must make ...

ASIC appoints two new commissioners

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... Commission for three years, as well as chief executive of consumers' association CHOICE. Greg Tanzer has been secretary general of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions since 2007 and also spent a number of years as ASIC's executive ...

APRA executive appointed secretary general of Basel

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
Australian Wayne Byres has been appointed as the new secretary general of global banking standard-setting body, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Byres has been at the helm of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) as executive ...

Challenge your consultants on ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... as director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Geneva and a senior adviser to the Secretary General of the U.N. Earth Summit in 1992. He has written a book titled 'Investing in a Sustainable World'. "It's your money or it's ...
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