Payday lenders heap pressure on borrowers, fail to undertake sufficient background checks and even lend money to people who are drunk or have mental health issues,...
This week, two corporate giants, Amazon and HSBC, hold their AGMs and although the worlds of the internet and investment may be very different, their shareholders...
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...
The chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group António Horta-Osório has said the bank has begun a systematic review of its use of offshore havens in an...
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...
Recommendations on how to transform Britain’s “broken” financial system were suggested on Friday at a conference in London, attended by campaigners, economists and financiers. Speakers at...
Here, Blue & Green Tomorrow rounds up some of April’s biggest headlines – a month in which Earth Day took place, the EU voted to ban...
Blending social investment, public funding and social enterprise, social impact bonds are a groundbreaking way of raising private funds to finance essential public services. Public contracts...
Campaigners, economists and financiers are gathering in London on Friday for a conference to work out how to transform the finance industry, so that unsustainable investment...
Everything we do is governed by money, and money cannot be good unless it is directed towards good ends, according to leading economic historian. Lord Skidelsky,...
“Any other business?” asked Ecology Building Society chair Malcolm Lynch, obligatorily, at the end of the organisation’s annual general meeting (AGM) in Leeds last month. A...
The credit union industry’s trade body has rolled out an ambitious new plan in an effort to grow UK membership by a million over the next...
After revealing its best quarterly profits since 2011, bailed out Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has said the government could sell its stake to the private...
Move Your Money is certainly a campaign of its time. Mobilised by an abundance of banking scandals, more than 500,000 people have switched from the big...