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The financial sector is known for its high pay excesses. Jane Turner looks at over 50 financial institutions to see which are paying the people at the top excessive amounts, and which have the highest pay ratios.
Plus, with the removal of the cap on bankers' bonuses, which banks are now paying up to 10 or even 25 times the annual salary in…
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Banks around the world pump money into oil and gas, making them a key culprit of climate breakdown.
Here we discuss how banks are contributing to climate change, highlight the worst offenders, and discuss green alternatives.
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HSBC is facing widespread criticism after its top executive in Asia publicly declared the firm’s support for the national security law that China has enforced in Hong Kong.
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Catch up on all the latest and most important ethical news in the financial sector.
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Ethical investment is increasingly being used to help solve the housing crisis as Simon Birch discovers.
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Catch up on all the important ethical news in the financial sector.
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The world’s largest public bank, the European Investment Bank (EIB), has agreed to phase out its multibillion-euro financing for fossil fuels within the next two years to become the world’s first ‘climate bank’.
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Tax justice news for December 2019/January 2020. Information about the release of the Manifesto for Tax Justice and Fair tax news.
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Following this year’s publication of the Co-op Bank’s ‘Values and Ethics Report 2018’, the Customer Union for Ethical Banking raised the alarm after its eagle-eyed discovery that the report lacked external scrutiny from a third party.
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UK councils spend billions every year subcontracting services in their area.
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Julian Richer is the founder of the high-street hi-fi chain Richer Sounds. He has also published a book, The Ethical Capitalist, and he was the opening keynote speaker at the Fair Tax Mark’s annual conference in July.
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We need to start including the Global South when talking about tackling climate change, says Simon Birch.
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A new report called ‘Green is (Relatively) Good for European Utilities’ has been released by Morningstar, the US global financial services firm which provides research and information on investment funds.
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We caught up with George Latham, Managing Partner at WHEB Asset Management, which came top in our guides to Fossil Free Investment Funds and Ethical Investment Funds.
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The auditing firm KPMG has been fined £5m by the Financial Reporting Council for its failures in properly auditing the Co-op Bank. The fine was reduced to £4m as the firm did not dispute the penalty.
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Fundraising for the St Ives Community Land Trust passed £75,000 in early June, moving steadily closer to its £500,000 target.
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Richard Murphy FCA, Director of the new Corporate Accountability Network, explains why.
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Tim Hunt speaks to Dave Haslam founder of Church Action for Tax Justice.
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In December, HSBC announced that it had fully divested from the Israeli drone manufacturer Elbit Systems, known for selling weapons to the Israeli military used in attacks on Palestinian civilians.
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Leeds Building Society has this week become the first national high-street financial institution certified as an accredited Fair Tax Mark business, having been successfully assessed against the Fair Tax Mark criteria.