CHARITY BANKING: UTOPIA OR AN ALTERNATIVE TO GREEDY FINANCE?

• Authors: Vernizzi Staniszewska Aleksandra , Fernandez-Avilez Gema
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper will examine so-called charity banking in terms of the idea, the current impact on the banking market and the social aspects for communities and depositors. The current state-of-art is presented and an attempt to assess whether “charity” & “social” are appropriate words to describe banking. The terms: social/charity banking, social money and social return are defined. Then there are examples of banking institutions engaged in a social/charity approach. In the last part authors triy to evaluate how much truth there is in the social/charity statements of such institutions.

Keywords

EN

charity; social banking; sustainable finance; social finance

• Publisher: Katedra Ekonometrii i Statystyki, Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Metody Ilościowe w Badaniach Ekonomicznych
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 492-500

Contributors

author

Vernizzi Staniszewska Aleksandra

• Collegium of Management and Finance, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

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Fernandez-Avilez Gema

• Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain

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