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[Changing Finance & Financing Change – The Global Alliance for Banking on Values]
When it comes to stewardship, sustainability, and care of humanity, there is a much better way to bank than the status quo… and it is already happening around the world at considerable scale! Values-based banking provides companies and families deposit and credit products that are designed for and managed within frameworks in which planetary stewardship, community cohesion, and the wellbeing of people across diverse demographics are front and center. And the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), led by Martin Rohner, Executive Director, is leading this global movement by coordinating efforts among banking institutions world-wide and by providing tools, resources, and curated connection-making opportunities to help banking executives, directors, policy-makers, and other key leaders advance triple-bottom line banking in a wide range of countries and contexts. In addition to highlighting the commitments to transparency, accountability, and solidarity (between socioeconomic “haves” and “have nots”) to which GABV member banks adhere, Mr. Rohner encourages all of us to switch to GABV banks for all of our personal and professional / workplace banking needs, citing the many social and environmental benefits values-based banks provide (not to mention the rational, stabilizing economic forces within our “real-economy” as opposed to the destabilizing extractive and casino-like financial, currency, and derivatives system-gaming by the preponderance of conventional banking and financial institutions). Prioritizing long term financial resilience over short term profiteering, GABV member banks focus on family businesses, women-led businesses, small businesses, renewable energy, regenerative farming, and other community-focused, detoxifying, and climate-stabilizing sectors around the world. The impacts are already tremendous and the potential impacts are game-changing. Indeed, analysts at Topo Finance have determined through their research that environmentally conscious mission driven banking sector has the capacity to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions 5x below “business as usual” trends. It matters where we choose to bank!
About the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV)
Founded in 2008 after the global financial crisis, the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV) is an international network of 70+ banks operating in 45 countries, serving over 50 million customers and managing some $265 billion in capital assets. From Triodos Bank in the Netherlands to Centenary Bank in Uganda, from GLS Bank in Germany and Alternative Bank Schweitz in Switzerland, to BRAC Bank in Bangladesh and ESAF Small Finance in India, from Van City in Canada, to Southern Bank Corp, Civic Federal Credit Union, Climate First Bank and Amalgamated Bank in the United States, from Bank Australia and Colombia’s Banco Munda Moher, to the Laboral Kutxa Bank of the Mondragon Cooperatives in the Basque Country of Spain, (to name but a few), the Global Alliance for Banking on Values represents an extensive network of financial institutions rooted in ethical responsibility and dedicated to social and environmental stewardship, regeneration, and sustainability.
About Martin Rohner, Executive Director
Martin Rohner is the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (www.gabv.org) a movement of 70+ banks that put finance at the service of people and planet. Before joining the GABV, Martin was CEO of Alternative Bank Schweiz, the leading sustainable and values-based bank in Switzerland which was the first bank to introduce negative interest and is a founding member of the GABV. His earlier career in development finance and sustainable trade included stations at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank as well as Fairtrade International. Martin holds a Masters Degree in Environment and Development from the University of Cambridge (UK), a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and a Diploma of Advance Studies in Executive Banking from the University of Bern (Switzerland).
Resources & Related Episodes
Website: https://www.gabv.org/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/global-alliance-for-banking-on-values/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bankingonvalues/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bankingonvalues/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bankingonvalues
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Sponsors & Supporters
AndCO Hospitality, Bluestone Life, The Brad & Lindsay Lidge Family Foundation, Clean Content,Climate First Bank, Dobrosphera Kind Media Group, Earth Coast Productions, Gaia.AI, Goodstead Financial, Husch Blackwell, Launch Legal, Patagonia’s Home Planet Fund, Regenerative World Quest, The Riverside Boulder, Shaye Skiff Communications, SoundLight Foundation, Verona Rylander Philanthropies, and Wele Waters.
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