Banks, investors raising green finance for Aussie firms

Industry players predict that Australia’s developing green finance sector will be an essential component of corporate funding within five years, with banks and investors increasingly willing to offer companies funding that is associated with environmental factors. “We see it as a megatrend, one of those global themes that are going to be integral to Australia’s economic development,” Katharine Tapley, head of sustainable finance at ANZ, told AsianInvestor's sister publication Fina…