Blogs about: Finance Ethics

Barclays robust approach to screening environmental risks

Rachael Bailey wrote 1 year ago: Barclays believes its increasingly robust approach to screening environmental risks surrounding cor … more »

Tags: banking ethics, Company Reporting, Corporate Responsibility, Environmental and social governance, Environmental Policies, Ethical Lending, financial institutions, Project Finance, Responsible Project Financing

West African Sustainable Finance UNEP Event

Rachael Bailey wrote 5 days ago: Over 90 financial service executives from West Africa gathered in Lagos to celebrate the new financi … more »

Tags: UNEP

Equator Principles Celebrate Five Years of Positive Environmental Impact and Improved Business Practices

Rachael Bailey wrote 1 month ago: On May 8th sixty of the world’s leading financial institutions marked the fifth anniversary of the … more »

EBRD 2008 Environmental and Social Policy

Rachael Bailey wrote 2 months ago: The 2008 Environmental and Social Policy is a key document of the Bank which details the commitments … more »

Tags: Environmental and social governance, Social risk, Sustainable Finance

EBRD Publishes Public Information Policy

Rachael Bailey wrote 2 months ago: The new EBRD Public information policy (PIP) was approved on the 12th May. It sets out how the EBRD … more »

Tags: banking ethics, Best Practice, ebrd, Europe, financial institutions, responsible finance, Responsible Project Financing, Social Impact, socially responsible investing

Engineers Against Poverty provides practical guidance to oil, gas and mining companies on local enterprise development

Rachael Bailey wrote 2 months ago: EAP has produced an eight-page briefing note to guide oil, gas and mining (OGM) companies on how th … more »

Tags: Best Practice, Extractive Industries

Equator Principle Financial Institutions Meet to Share Best Practice

Rachael Bailey wrote 5 months ago: On 3 December representatives from 25 EPFIs met to discuss the ongoing development of the Equator … more »

Tags: banking ethics, Best Practice, Credit Risk Management, Environmental and social governance, Equator Principles, Ethical Finance, Ethical Lending, financial institutions, Project Finance

Inadequate integration of human rights law - the need for additional risk management

Rachael Bailey wrote 5 months ago: The risks associated with financing projects can vary significantly according to the geographical lo … more »

Tags: Best Practice, corporate finance, Credit Risk Management, Environmental and social due diligence, Equator Principles, Ethical Lending, Europe, financial institutions, Human Rights

Equator Principles Signatories: Progress with Disclosure

Rachael Bailey wrote 6 months ago: The Equator Principles website now has a “disclosure section” which provides information … more »

Tags: banking ethics, Best Practice, Company Reporting, Environmental and social governance, Environmental finance, Equator Principles, Ethical Finance, Project Finance, Responsible Project Financing

First bank from the Middle East to adopt the Equator Principles

Rachael Bailey wrote 10 months ago: BankMuscat is the first bank from the Middle East region to take this ‘environment-friendly’ sta … more »

Tags: Environmental finance, Equator Principles, Ethical Finance, middle east, Project Finance, Responsible Project Financing, socially responsible investing, Sustainable Finance

Minimum Requirements for Equator Principle Reporting and one year of EPII Implementation and

Rachael Bailey wrote 10 months ago: A template which sets out the minimum reporting requirements for EPII has also been released. This c … more »

Tags: banking ethics, business ethics, Environmental finance, Environmental Risk, Equator Principles, Ethical Finance, Ethical Lending, financial institutions, IFC

IFC Guidance to the Private Sector on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples

Rachael Bailey wrote 1 year ago: March 13, 2007- The International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced today the release of a new IFC … more »

Tags: Best Practice, business ethics, Corporate Responsibility, Credit Risk Management, Environmental and social governance, Equator Principles, financial institutions, IFC, Latin America

CSR in the Australian banking sector - Westpac

Rachael Bailey wrote 1 year ago: Westpac has released its sixth non-financial Stakeholder Impact Report, available at www.westpac.co … more »

Tags: business ethics, Company Reporting, Credit Risk Management, Environmental and social governance, Environmental finance, Equator Principles, financial institutions, Global Reporting Initiative, Shareholders

Banks consider how to include climate change in their investment decisions

Rachael Bailey wrote 1 year ago: London, 11 January: A group of investment banks is to investigate how best to i … more »

Tags: banking ethics, business ethics, climate change, Ethical Finance, Sustainable Investment

Key discussions at the Ethical Finance Summit

Rachael Bailey wrote 1 year ago: There were some excellent discussions on the Equator Principles (EP) at the Ethical Corporation - Su … more »

Tags: banking ethics, business ethics, Company Reporting, corporate finance, Corporate Responsibility, Credit Risk Management, Environmental and social due diligence, Environmental and social governance, Environmental finance

The Do's and Don’ts of Sustainable Banking; a BankTrack manual1 comment

Rachael Bailey wrote 1 year ago: BankTrack, the NGO network monitoring the private financial sector, presented their new publication, … more »

Tags: banking ethics, Corporate Responsibility, Environmental and social governance, Equator Principles, Ethical Finance, Ethical Lending, NGO, Project Finance, responsible finance

Workers' rights top list of ethical investor concerns

Rachael Bailey wrote 1 year ago: A survey of investor has found their key concerns include workers conditions, involvement in arms tr … more »

Tags: banking ethics, business ethics, Environmental finance, Human Rights, responsible finance, Sustainable Finance, Sustainable Investment

Sustainable Finance Summit 2006

Rachael Bailey wrote 1 year ago: I will be attending this event at the end of November, and I hope to see all those of you who are in … more »

Tags: Project Finance, Equator Principles, Sustainable Finance, Corporate Responsibility, Environmental finance, Responsible Project Financing, Credit Risk Management, Environmental and social governance, Ethical Lending


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