The question of whether it pays to be green has been addressed by many studies, but despite the growing number of works, the debate about the relationship between environmental performance, environmental disclosure, and banks' performance is still unresolved, and mixed results have been found....

In 2006 China implemented the green credit policy that demands from banks to integrate sustainability considerations into their lending and investment processes. The goals of the policy are to incentivize the financial sector to finance the transformation into a greener economy and to create...

Social banking is conducted by social, ethical or alternative banks, and partly by cooperative banks and credit unions. In contrast to conventional banks, social banks conduct their business to create a social or environmental benefit. Thus they follow the concept of social finance and blended...

In this paper we will give an overview about the history of ethical, socially responsible and sustainable banking. Thus it will not provide a general historical overview about banking and finance but concentrate on sustainable, socially responsible or ethical banking. Let us explain why we...

How do Canadian banks report about the integration of sustainability risks into corporate lending compared with their global peers and where are Canadian banks generally located regarding sustainability issues compared to their global peers? In this paper we report about the analysis of Canadian...