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ECCR Publishes Report on THe Banks And Society

CSM members may be interested in a new report published by the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Social Responsibility (ECCR).

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

Among the issues that the report considers are financial exclusion, responsible credit, gender equity in employment, project financing, asset management, lobbying, money laundering, tax avoidance, developing country debt, commodity speculation, board governance, risk management, remuneration and transparency.

Copies of the Executive Summary and Full Report can be downloaded here.

CSM, 21/02/2011