Governing Banks: How Would An Ethical Framework For Good Banks Make Any Difference?

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

  Long Finance NEWS group just posted a new announcement. Subject: London South Bank University – 25 March, 17:00 – Lecture “Governing Banks: How Would An Ethical Framework For Good Banks Make Any Difference?” You can read your new message here (please note that you will need to be signed in): http://www.longfinance.net/groups7/viewgroup/4-long-finance-news.html …

B Lab with the release of the third annual ‘B Corp Best for the World’ list

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Reforming Global Finance

WAYNE, Pa., Mar. 19 /CSRwire/ – Today, 92 companies worldwide were recognized for creating the most positive, overall social and environmental impact by the nonprofit B Lab with the release of the third annual ‘B Corp Best for the World’ list. The ‘B Corp Best for the World’ list honors …

A Dangerous Game Of Us vs. Us Played With Our Life Savings : AltEnergyStocks.com

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

  A Dangerous Game Of Us vs. Us Played With Our Life Savings Posted: 15 Mar 2014 07:22 AM PDT Tom Konrad CFA US law requires that money managers put their clients’ interests first. Investment advisers and money managers almost universally assume this means that they must try to make as …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI: EU Parliament Votes For Public Registries of Company Ownership

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

    From the Financial Transparency Coalition Blog: European Parliament Gives Overwhelming ‘Yes’ Vote to End Secret Corporate Ownership Millions of Euros Left Ukraine: Why Beneficial Ownership Transparency is Common Sense As Europe Tightens Oversight, Spotlight Must Remain Why Russia No Longer Fears the West: It’s the Offshore, Stupid Understanding …

Bank of England talks about money creation for the first time

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

We have some seriously big news to announce!  1) Huge milestone in our campaign When we launched the Positive Money campaign 3 and half years ago and started talking about the fact that banks create money, we were faced with disbelief and shock. A common response was: ‘I don’t believe you. I …

The Stone that Brings Down Goliath? Richmond and Eminent Domain

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Community Development Solutions

In a nearly $13 billion settlement with the US Justice Department in November 2013,JPMorganChase admitted that it, along with every other large US bank, had engaged in mortgage fraud as a routine business practice, sowing the seeds of the mortgage meltdown. JPMorgan and other megabanks have now been caught in over …

Bretton Woods Bulletin February 2014 :

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

  February 2014       Please find below the highlights of the Bretton Woods Bulletin February 2014, including: A Comment piece on the World Bank’s mechanisms by Andrea Rodriguez Osuna and Astrid Puentes; An At Issue briefing on the new brics bank by Sameer Dossani; A Guest Analysis piece on the IFC’s much-criticised investment in Tata’s Assam …

More Wisdom from David Cay Johnston on Flawed Economic Theory

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

   Some More Wisdom from David Cay Johnston  on  Flawed Economic Theory :             Not every opportunity to profit because of above-market prices is filled by a competitor. Indeed, in my books I have shown how rules discourage this in many markets. In some markets, notably electricity, the rules tend to …