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As Australian dollar new issuance at the start of 2024 first impressed then amazed even grizzled market veterans, the question on everyone’s lips is whether this apparent step-change in market capacity represents system growth or just a fortunate combination of technical tailwinds. If it is the former, the local market may be taking its first steps as a profoundly different entity.

Confusion about terminology is not new in the sustainable finance market. As financing hard-to-abate transition becomes the focus, market participants are grappling with the issue of defining “transition”. The Transition Finance in the Debt Capital Market report from the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) tackles this by offering definitions of three types of transition.

According to the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), an integrated transition plan could be a means by which to revive the flagging sustainability-linked bond (SLB) market.

The economic outlook is weak and the world is suffering an apparently unceasing pipeline of risk events. Meanwhile, the looming US election carries the threat of geopolitical and environmental catastrophe. Nonetheless, the Australian fixed-income market ecosystem is in rude health. Market participants looking to 2024 and beyond should be thinking about how to capitalise on recent success to solidify and multiply local capacity.

On 24 November 2023, the Enchanted Ball returned to the Palladium at Crown in Melbourne. Celebrating 21 years, the exclusive event raises funds for the Financial Markets Foundation for Children, which offers grants for life-changing research into children’s health. KangaNews is proud to be a diamond sponsor of the ball.

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Greenwashing has become a focus of regulatory and media attention in Australia in recent times, with the investment community well and truly in the crosshairs. Fixed-income investors report an elevated – but manageable – degree of concern.

Greenwashing has become a focus of regulatory and media attention in Australia in recent times, with the investment community well and truly in the crosshairs. Fixed-income investors report an elevated – but manageable – degree of concern.

Greenwashing has become a focus of regulatory and media attention in Australia in recent times, with the investment community well and truly in the crosshairs. Fixed-income investors report an elevated – but manageable – degree of concern.

Australasian primary issuance navigated a range of market conditions in 2023. To reflect on the year that was, KangaNews is publishing a series of annual reviews across a variety of sectors in the Australian and New Zealand domestic markets.

As well as amplifying female thought leadership in the Australian and New Zealand market, the KangaNews Women in Capital Markets Yearbook aims to help connect women with peers and potential mentors by providing information on a range of active networks covering industry sectors and roles.