Residents in the Lancashire city of Preston are being encouraged by their local council to join the alternative banking campaign Move Your Money. Preston city council...
With roots in Sweden and an emphasis on decentralisation and personal customer relationships, Handelsbanken has quietly become one of the most attractive sustainable banking alternatives on...
Over a decade ago at 11 Downing Street, Gordon Brown – then chancellor of the exchequer in Tony Blair’s Labour government – cut the ribbon on...
Banking does not have to be evil. It is absurd that we even have to say those seven words, but the last five years of scandals...
Banking does not have to be evil. It is absurd that we even have to say those seven words, but the last five years of scandals...
The current account switching service, launched on September 16, has made “a great start”, according to the body behind it. Campaigners, however, argue that it is...
Local authorities have been challenged to make banking and investments work harder for their communities. In a new report, campaign group Move Your Money describes how...
The parliamentary commission on banking standards’ latest report is a bit like reading the first part of The Lord of the Rings. There is incredibly dramatic and beautiful...
The Financial Ombudsman Service has revealed that it receives 7,000 complaints and enquiries a day – a figure that the Move Your Money campaign says should...
People expect financial services firms to remember key details about them, with a number considering switching to other providers because of impersonal customer service, new research...
In the last 12 months, the mainstream banks have become embroiled in yet more scandals, crises and irresponsibility. In an extract from a recent talk, Ecology...
After helping launch peer-to-peer lending site Zopa 10 years ago, Bruce Davis is now co-founder of renewable energy platform Abundance Generation. Here, in an extract from...
Recent developments at the Co-operative Bank highlight not only the frailty of larger banking institutions, but also the desperate need for sustainable alternatives. First, the Co-operative...
New research shows that while bank lending may be falling in the UK, loans from Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) have doubled in two years –...
It was lauded as “the biggest shake-up in high street banking in a generation”, but today the Co-operative Bank has revealed that it is pulling out...