One of the UK’s most prolific social investment lenders has welcomed new measures to help push social investment, and urged third sector organisations to seize the...
Unity Trust Bank, one of the leading socially responsible banks in the UK, has unveiled a new scheme that will see staff handed ownership stakes in...
International development secretary Justine Greening and Goldman Sachs chairman Jim O’Neill have both been confirmed as keynote speakers at the FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Conference and Awards...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 –...