“Legitimacy” in the Banking Sector

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING THE QUALITY OF STAKEHOLDER RELATIONS Earnings and valuation uncertainty – In a post global financial crisis world, investors are questioning long-term earnings and valuation prospects for the banking sector. Tougher regulation, particularly on capital, liquidity and structure, are exerting pressure on the traditional banking business …

Disrupting Davos

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Davos is with us again. Thousands of people will scale the magic mountain and debate the world’s most gripping challenges, protected by an equal if not greater number of Swiss military and police. Disrupting Davos used to be an annual sport, with protesters playing cat and mouse with the event’s …

2015 Report From Inclusive Prosperity Commission

Ethical Markets - RReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News, Trendspotting

Center for American Progress Releases New Report From Inclusive Prosperity Commission That Offers Bold New Prescriptions to Reinvigorate Middle Class and Reduce Growing Income Inequality January 15, 2015 New report from Inclusive Prosperity Commission, transatlantic group convened by the Center for American Progress, will present policy proposals to promote broadly …

Financial Reform Newsletter – January 09, 2015 – Again, why Silicon Valley (and all of corporate America more broadly) needs to care about what’s going on with Wall Street:

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Financial Reform Newsletter January 9, 2015 Welcome to 2015!  Many have asked what was in the news over the holidays that they might have missed, but would want to know.  Here are some highlights:   Again, why Silicon Valley (and  all of corporate America more broadly) needs to care about …

Federation and Coopera Launch Campaign to Reach Immigrants Through Credit Unions

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Community Development Solutions, SRI/ESG News

“Ethical Markets  supports the further use of co-operatives, credit unions and such democratic forms of financial services. Cooperative enterprises already employ more people than all the commercial, for-profit companies in the world combined ( 2013 was the UN Year of Cooperatives).” Hazel Henderson, Editor Federation and Coopera Launch Campaign to …

EU Showdown: Greece Takes on the Vampire Squid

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Greece and the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the European Central Bank) are in a dangerous game of chicken. The Greeks have been threatened with a “Cyprus-Style prolonged bank holiday” if they “vote wrong.” But they have been bullied for too long and are saying “no more.” …