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 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...
An online campaign is urging Co-operative Bank customers not to switch providers, and instead join forces to demand the bank to stick by its ethical principles....
The Co-operative Bank has assured its customers, including some of the UK’s leading charities, that it will not to vacate its ethical principles as it prepares...
The Payments Council has revealed that 89,000 banking customers have switched their current accounts using the new switching scheme that was launched mid-September, but consumer groups...
Democratic finance has lots of definitions, but credit unions are arguably one of the best examples. Tom Revell looks at why they’re becoming an increasingly attractive...
National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW) is underway, and we’re publishing daily interviews, conducted by Greenhouse PR, with a different ethical investment pioneer each day until Friday. UKSIF chief...
National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW) begins today, and we’re publishing daily interviews, conducted by Greenhouse PR, with a different ethical investment pioneer each day until Friday. Following UKSIF...
Nearly 3 million investors could consider social investment within the next year, according to a study by the ethical bank Triodos. Surveying the investment habits of...
Values-based banks offer better returns on assets and provide more capital to the real economy than mainstream banks, according to a new report by the Global...
Sean Buchan is actively switching his banking choices. Whilst doing this, he reflects on why such a simple action faces so much resistance and inertia across...
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...
A private equity consortium, backed by the Church of England, has bought upto half of the former Williams & Glyn’s branches from the Royal Bank of...
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...