Corporate Banking

Westpac is ready for action as the RBA and Digital Finance CRC explore new digital forms of money and the potential for a central bank digital currency for wholesale payments in a new project.

This month’s ESG Impact newsletter explores the upfront carbon intensity of Australian homes, the launch of the Australian sustainable finance taxonomy, greater governance of the ‘blue economy’, the G7 Critical Minerals Action Plan, and more.

Cheques are on the way out and organisations need to start planning the transition to cheque alternatives now. Leeanne Gray, Westpac Institutional Banks’s Head of Domestic Payments & Simplification, explains what’s involved.