Amidst The Co-operative Bank’s financial problems and the scandals and political mudslinging of recent weeks, it’s easy to forget how much of a pioneer the bank...
At an event in Bristol in September, 500 people gathered to discuss banking – but not as we know it. Talk of executive remuneration was replaced by...
MPs and other parliamentary staff now have the option to pay into a credit union directly from their wages, thanks to a new service launched on...
Fran Boait, campaign manager at Positive Money, looks at the role of the housing market in creating a more sustainable economy. This article originally appeared in...
Energy and climate change minister Ed Davey has announced that the UK will join the US and stop public financing for coal-fired power plants overseas, except in rare...
Marketing guru Seth Godin sent out two posts last week about bullying (first; second). “He’s a bully, but he’s our bully” was the gist of the first...
BankToTheFuture.com is a new initiative that lets people invest as little as £10 in private companies, and have more say over what happens to their savings and...
By injecting new money into the economy, the government could create a more sustainable recovery, according to a campaign body calling for reform of the financial...
The Co-operative Bank is to exit existing banking relationships with local authority customers in an effort to focus its attention on individuals and small and medium...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is reportedly holding informal talks with 21 firms that want to apply to launch new banks. Speaking at a banking conference...
We are dramatically altering the planet and environment on which society’s prosperity depends – yet talk to the ‘man at the pub’, and he’s apathetic, inert...
We will “[continue] to have regard for the highest standards of ethical principles”, the Co-operative Bank stated in an advert on Monday. This is despite being...
Throughout October, the social bank Charity Bank held several events as part of its Different Journeys programme. Eighty of its savers visited 16 of its borrowers,...
Once seen as the leading ethical banking option, the Co-operative Bank has endured a tough 12 months after financing problems led to it unveiling a £1.5...
Martin Wheatley, chief executive of the regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has said the regulatory system was moving towards placing “far more emphasises on good...