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...
In the mid-90s, City analyst and fund manager Michael Gill came up with an idea to score companies based on their environmental performance – an environmental...
Ty Lee, senior analyst at WHEB Asset Management, delves into the troublesome world of corporate sustainability reporting, and explains why we must crack the chicken-and-egg problem...
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is being sued for £4 billion by a group of shareholders angry at the way the bank handled the 2008...
The now defunct Financial Services Authority (FSA) has been replaced by three shiny new three-lettered abbreviations, after the chancellor’s reform of financial regulation took affect this...
Last time around, we explored what environmental, social and governance (ESG) meant. Today, we find out how investors can act to ensure that the ethical standards of...
Some of the world’s leading sustainability-minded financial institutions will be honoured by The Financial Times (FT) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on June 13, when...
First State Investments has unveiled its 2012 Annual Report, in which responsible investment is highlighted as “critical” in securing long-term success for the business. Launched in...
One of the UK ethical banking sector’s biggest names, Charity Bank, is to drop its status as a registered charity in an effort to boost its...
The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV) has announced that Melbourne, Australia, will host its ethical banking conference next year. Twenty-two of the world’s leading...
The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) launched a new initiative, Ownership Day, with a parliamentary reception on Tuesday. Here, George Latham, managing parter at...
Financial advisory firm the deVere Group has launched a training programme designed to turn students into “highly paid, fully-qualified wealth management [professionals] within just two years”...
Triodos Bank, one Europe’s leading sustainable banks, has revealed that both its balance sheet and customer base have grown by 23% in the past year –...
Capitalism is often described today as being in crisis. This overstates the case. Like democracy, it’s the worst form, except all those other forms that have...