Tag: big banks

This is not just a U.S. problem. Regulators agree to minimum standards for banking rules at an international level because finance is a global business.

Massive industrial livestock financing sabotages major U.S. banks’ climate goals.

The financial institutions lavished $705 billion on oil, gas, and coal in 2023—the hottest year on record.

A public bank would allow the state of New York to keep its money closer to home, and put it to good work.

Bank accused of greenwashing ahead of COP26 for backing scheme while being world’s 13th biggest funder of fossil fuels

Tired from trekking 170 miles from Biden’s birthplace to his hometown, a dozen of us grandparents decided to take a stand for climate justice by sitting down.

The Post Office could offer simple, honest banking, including checking and savings accounts, consumer loans, and low-fee debit cards.

The big banks funded the money-losing fracking industry for the past decade just like they funded the housing crisis — but the reality is, just like in the housing crisis, the coming bailouts will protect the banks.

“We are hopeful that this $3 billion penalty, along with the personnel and structural changes at the Bank, will ensure that such conduct will not reoccur.”

“Goldman Sachs is right to recognize that destroying the Arctic Refuge would be bad business. We hope other American banks will follow their lead.”