NEW REPORT: Mobile Is Pulling Customers Away From Branches And Online Banking

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Wealth of Networks

New Report Alert   THE MOBILE AND ONLINE BANKING REPORT: Mobile Is Pulling Customers Away From Branches And Online Banking To Read The Full Report, Sign Up For A Free Trial Today » John Heggestuen | [email protected] The relationship between consumers and their banks is in a period of dramatic upheaval …

Americans More Certain That Global Warming Is Happening

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Trendspotting

  Americans More Certain That Global Warming Is Happening The reality of climate change – worldwide and in the United States – is a well-established scientific fact. The first finding in the recently released 2014 National Climate Assessment (written and reviewed by hundreds of climate experts over the past 4 years), …

[Climate Bonds] UK £12m solar bond / New Mexico solar farm to deliver energy below fossil fuel cost

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

+  The UK’s £4.6bn Lancashire County Pension Fund has invested in a 23.5 year, £12m ($18m) solar bond, issued by a community-owned solar power plant in Oxfordshire. According to I&PE, the bond gives Lancashire a return “3 percentage points above the retail prices index”. Westmill Solar Coop’s 21,000-panel solar farm …

Why Is Finance So Big?

kristyReforming Global Finance

Why Is Finance So Big? Posted: 29 Feb 2012 01:29 PM PST By James Kwak This is a chart from ?The Quiet Coup,? an article that we wrote for The Atlantic three years ago next month. Many people have noted that the financial sector has been getting bigger over the …

Bloomberg Doesn’t Like Financial Speculation Taxes and Is Prepared To Make Stuff Up to Make Its Case

kristyReforming Global Finance

Bloomberg Doesn’t Like Financial Speculation Taxes and Is Prepared To Make Stuff Up to Make Its Case Dean Baker Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:36 Bloomberg News Service really doesn’t like financial speculation taxes (FST). In fact it dislikes them so much that it is prepared to make things up to …