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There has been turmoil in the electricity and gas retail sector recently, and many small and even big companies have been hurrying for the door.

Barclays and HSBC are amongst the largest banks in the UK. Yet, both companies have been repeatedly criticised over ethical issues and face ongoing campaigns.

Several banks finance Israeli settlements, weapons, and military, which contributes to human rights abuses in Palestine. In this article Marlous Veldt and Jasmine Owens assess which UK current account providers are most and least complicit.

A template letter/email for those who have switched bank accounts for ethical reasons and want to let their old bank know why they have done this. Please feel free to adapt the layout and copy below.

Whenever Ethical Consumer is approached by journalists asking about the top five or ten ethical choices that consumers can make, changing bank accounts is almost always on the list.

An interview about Barclays’ role in climate breakdown and its responsibility to change in Bangladesh and beyond.

Friends Of the Earth’s open letter calls on England’s biggest landowners to grow more trees.

Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, and NatWest Group have all been identified as having historical links to slavery.

CoreCivic and GEO Group are the largest providers of private prisons and immigration detention centres in the US. Clare Carlile explains how financial institutions like HSBC, BlackRock, and Citigroup are facing increasing criticism for their funding of them.

In July 2020, a group of Kenyan tea plantation workers filed a complaint with the UN against Unilever, stating that the company violated international human rights standards by failing employees who were attacked after ethnic violence broke out following an election in 2007. In this article, we ask whether Unilever is still failing to respect its…

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…

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.

The UK Government has announced a new fund to improve workers’ rights and conditions in high street supply chains during the coronavirus pandemic. Businesses said to be benefiting from the scheme include Primark, Mondelez (Cadbury, Green & Blacks) and Tesco. Campaigners ask why these multi-million pound brands are not already protecting those…