ANZ has appointed Katharine Tapley as its head of sustainable finance solutions (SFC), loans and specialised finance, the company said in a statement on Friday.
The promotion came a week after the Aussie lender picked Jimmy Choi and Paul White as co-heads of capital markets overseeing its debt origination and syndication businesses across the region.
Tapley joined ANZ in 2001 and has been a senior member of the sustainable finance solutions team since its inception in 2014.
The creation of the team reflected strong interest in environmentally-friendly investing in Australia, where the green bond market is starting to flourish.
"Since joining the SFS team, Katharine has made a strong contribution with her depth of knowledge across various sustainable asset classes and her extensive transactional experience," Christina Tonkin, managing director loans and specialised finance at ANZ, said in the statement, adding that she has further entrenched ANZ’s growing reputation for sustainable finance capability as a acting head.
Tapley has been acting head since June 2016, and was instrumental in implanting a number of ANZ initiatives including the development of ANZ's green bond capability and executing ANZ's first consumer finance facilities for rooftop solar and batteries, and implementing a key partnership in the water sector with the Australian Water Association.
Tapley is a board member of the Carbon Market Institute, advisory panel member for the Australia-Indonesia Centre's Urban Water Cluster research project and alumni of the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership.
Tapley is based in Sydney and the appointment is effective immediately.
