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This article was initially published in the Vancouver Sun. Banking pursues greener pastures The words “banking” and “scandal” have in recent years become synonymous; a pairing of terms that provokes skepticism about the possibility of any real change in the financial services system. And yet ensuring that our banking system is working well, and for the [...]
The Undertaking of Finanza Etica The financial and economic crisis is continuing to adversely affect all of our economies, but the vision of Finanza Etica, or ‘Ethical Finance’, is not limited to just evaluating global data such as GDP, export levels, unemployment levels or consumer levels. The vision of Finanza Etica is much more profound [...]
Do you know where your money spends the night? We’ve been asking that question in a variety of venues, and it typically produces a strong and visible response of intrigued uneasiness. Many people are familiar with the concept of socially responsible investing applied to stocks and mutual funds. Far fewer think of it in terms [...]
Sustainable Banking and the pace of change. First published in February 2012, in Pengevirke, Merkur Cooperative Bank, Denmark and Cultura Bank, Norway’s regular magazine. In recent years the world has been caught in a storm of accelerating, far-reaching change, and a seemingly perpetual state of crisis. In recent years banks have been seen to be [...]
Rumee Ali, Chairman of GABV member BRAC Bank and former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank examines the role of Bangladesh’s Central Bank. It does seem like the Bangladesh Bank has painted itself into a corner. That is what the perception is. With the inflation elbowing in, yet there is pressure to hold interest rates down, [...]
This research, which is part of a research initiative by the Presencing Institute and the MIT Green Hub (Cambridge, USA) is designed to better understand how socially responsible and green banks operate and to learn how they can have an impact on society from their work. The research suggests five levels of socially responsible and [...]
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