Banks should address full range of responsibility concerns, says new ECCR report

February 2011 

While the banking crisis has exposed risks of financial system instability, a new report published this week claims that banks need to address a far broader range of social, ethical and environmental concerns.

In its report The Banks and Society: Rebuilding Trust, church-based research and advocacy group the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR) documents concerns about leading banks’ direct and indirect impacts on customers, employees, and local and national communities at home and abroad.­

­News release (pdf)

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