The hidden cost of freezing Russia out of finance By Gillian Tett – Financial Times Instead of having one major cross-border payments system there could eventually be many This week, a milestone was passed on the road of globalisation. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial …
Ethical Markets’ Transforming Finance 3.0
Films Media Group, the distributor for Ethical Markets videos to educational markets around the world, has made the third season of the series Transforming Finance a featured release. Ethical Markets 5: Transforming Finance 3.0 “is a 14-part series where author and visionary economist Hazel Henderson continues Ethical Markets’ mission to …
A Mandatory Approval of Complex Financial Instruments: The Need for a Precautionary Policy to Make Financial Markets Economically Sustainable
Saturday, 11 Oct, 9 – 10:30, Room: tbc http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/CSO/0,,contentMDK:23610678~pagePK:220503~piPK:220476~theSitePK:228717,00.html A Mandatory Approval of Complex Financial Instruments: The Need for a Precautionary Policy to Make Financial Markets Economically Sustainable Sponsor: World Future Council Panelists: Manuel Montes (South Centre), Nathan Coplin (New Rules for Global Finance), CHAIR: Suleika Reiners (World Future Council) The IMF …
What is Stewardship? And Why Does it Matter?
Thursday 6th November 2014 10.00 am – 11.30 am Crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral One of the world’s leading experts on biodiversity and sociobiology in discussion with different sectors to form a clearer vision of the scientific, moral and economic imperatives that underpin the need for a shared sense of …
At UN meeting in Geneva, Ban spotlights trade as driver of global sustainable development
1 October 2014 – The critical role played by international trade in lifting economies out of poverty is an invaluable one but must remain consonant with the objectives enshrined in the sustainable development goals, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared today in an address to the world trade organization (WTO). Speaking at …
What you’re not supposed to understand
The financial system is f^%#’ed Top bond man tells the truth the financial industry doesn’t want to hear Short course in how the world works. It’s all about bonds. Stocks are glamorous and go up and down, but it’s the health of the bond market that determines the health of …
Financial Reform Newsletter
Would you trust a lawyer to represent you in a dispute if he or she was getting paid by the other side? Certainly not, but that is the very scenario many hardworking Americans face when seeking investment advice from certain financial advisers to plan for retirement. Millions of professional financial …
GFI Welcomes Global Witness Report on “The Great Rip Off” from Anonymous Companies in America
September 30, 2014 Latest GFI Blogs Opportunity Knocks to Address Illicit Financial Flows The “Big Mo” in the Drive to Address Illicit Financial Flows Photographs from GFI and MIND’s Joint Conference in Rio de Janeiro China’s Illicit Outflows Were US$1.08 Trillion from 2002-2011 Voices from Delaware Are Speaking Out Against …
The Risky Coal London Event
Carbon Tracker Initiative – The Risky Coal Event in London 7th October 2014 View this email in your browser Register here The Risky Coal London Event CTI & ETA are presenting the Coal Report in London on 7th October, 2014 Following the successful launch of the Carbon Supply Cost Curves: Evaluating Financial …
The annual WSIS Forum has become a global multistakeholder platform
The annual WSIS Forum has become a global multistakeholder platform for coordination of the implementation of the WSIS Outcomes. The Forum, co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, undp and UNCTAD, in close collaboration with all WSIS Action Line facilitators/co-facilitators and other UN organizations (ITU, UNESCO, UNDP, unctad UNDESA, FAO, UNEP, WHO, ILO, …