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Getting to grips with the future of work
COVID-19 has profoundly affected how people work, especially in largely urban, professional industries like capital markets. As part of the 2021 Australian Securitisation Forum virtual conference, leaders with a range of perspectives shared their views on whether the shift to wide-scale home working will persist in the long term, how it affects equity across the workforce – particularly through a gender lens – and the value of face-to-face working.
A decade of development
The KangaNews-Westpac Corporate Debt Summit debuted in 2011, with a relatively small audience and a market that could not yet take consistent supply of corporate bonds for granted. In the decade since, the event and the market have grown and diversified. By 2019 – the last year before COVID-19 put the in-person event on hiatus – registrations had more than trebled, to nearly 600, and the event’s agenda covered not just corporate debt but a raft of issues relevant to the economic and business environment.
WSO Finance to begin consent solicitation process for five outstanding bonds
Now or never
Australia’s move toward a net-zero emissions future is accelerating, even in the absence of decisive federal policy leadership. Participants at the KangaNews Sustainable Debt Summit 2021 virtual event in June discussed the opportunities of a net-zero future and the risks of being left behind.
LLITST Finance prints nine-year A$200 million deal
LLITST launches nine-year domestic deal
