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Category - banking

16 Sep 2011

British Quakers and private schools

Much has been written today about Kweku Adoboli, the “rogue trader” who lost £1.3 billion of other people’s money. One fact that has received little attention is that he went to a Quaker school.
22 Aug 2011

Making finance ethical and sustainable

Many economic commentators, and those working in banking and finance, thought that the worst of the global economic recession had gone away. They were wrong. It looks to be back with a vengeance.
20 Jul 2011

Hacking scandal is about power, say Christian socialists

The Christian Socialist Movement has said that controversies over banking, phone hacking and MPs' expenses all show a failure to exercise power responsibly.
2 Mar 2011

Churches' agency examines 'just banking' and finance

Searching questions were raised about banks’ role in society in a new report by a UK-wide church-based research and advocacy group
4 Oct 2010

Huge bank funding gap demands radical economic alternatives, says NEF

The New Economics Foundation says Britain faces further economic chaos as banks come to terms with a £25 billion funding gap in 2011.
21 Jun 2010

World leaders should put poverty elimination first, says churches' chief

The World Council of Churches has called on world leaders to put impoverished people first, instead of making priorities of big banks and military expenditure.
23 Mar 2010

Scottish churches and investors tackle practicalities of 'banking on justice'

The Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility and the Church of Scotland are delighted with the response to their recent ‘Banking on Justice’ conference.
4 Mar 2010

Scottish churches and aid groups want 'just banking'

Church and fair finance groups are due to meet in Edinburgh to look at what ethical and socially responsible banking and investment can mean for churches and the wider community.
6 Jan 2010

Independent debt arbitration proposed in Icesave dispute

Jubilee Debt Campaign today called on the British government to support a neutral debt arbitration system to radically reform international lending.
12 Oct 2009

When risk gives way to superstition

Faith in mathematical modelling looks little more than hubris after the recent economic collapse, says Giles Fraser. The unknown cannot be so easily tamed, as any half-decent theologian would know.

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