In a meeting in Melbourne, the chair of the Global Alliance for Banking Values (GABV) has called on banks to act with “courage” to drive forward...
Ecology Building Society is Blue & Green Tomorrow’s 2013 sustainable bank of the year. Based in West Yorkshire, the organisation offers sustainable mortgages that are funded through its...
How can we fix our broken financial system? That question has been contemplated by many since the economic crisis first hit in 2007. But bringing together leading...
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...
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...
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...
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 –...
A 10-year comparison of some of the world’s biggest banks against a group of dedicated sustainable ones, has found that institutions that place values at the...
Adopting good morals and ethics is financially beneficial to banks, according to a new report by the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), a coalition...