Press releases from the campaign FACING FINANCE
In an open letter to policymakers in the European Parliament, Finance Watch, and 13 partners, including Facing Finance, call to include mandatory transition plans and… Read More »Open letter: banks and insurers must account for climate risk
The first global compilation of companies arming warring states Between 2015 and 2020, states involved in the wars in Libya, Yemen, and the Kashmir conflict… Read More »NGOs Publish New Database on Arms Exports
The Covid 19 pandemic and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine overshadow, to some extent, long-standing human rights violations and environmental destruction by international corporations,… Read More »Eyes closed, costs down, profits up.
GLS Bank (96%), EthikBank (92%) and Triodos Bank* (87%) hold the best sustainability assessments Sparda-Bank West (8%), Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf (23%) and DekaBank (27%) demonstrate the… Read More »Press Release – Banks must stop adding fuel to the fire of climate change and military conflicts – Fair Finance Guide attests to the existence of sustainability deficits in the German banking sector
Berlin/Oslo (10 June 2021) This week, the Norwegian Parliament adopted a new ethical criterion on arms sales to guide the investments of the Norwegian Government… Read More »Norwegian Government Pension Fund introduces ethical investment criterion for weapons companies and war crimes: A game changer
(Berlin) March 4, 2021 – Top European banks, including Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, are contributing massively to global plastic pollution through their billion-dollar investments and… Read More »Press Release – 146 billion euros for trash? How banks and the plastics industry are forcing a global environmental catastrophe
How international companies and German financial institutions benefit from and support activities contrary to international law in occupied and annexed territories German banks maintain financial… Read More »Occupied, annexed and cashed up
(22.5.2019) The DIRTY Profits 7 report presented today in Frankfurt / Main by the NGO Facing Finance highlights the ten European banks with some of… Read More »Press Release: As-Salaam-Alaikum (Peace be with you): How the war in Yemen is filling the coffers of European banks.
Berlin, 07 March 2019 – To commemorate International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, Facing Finance is calling on German banks to consider the… Read More »Press release: Discrimination of women- Not yet an issue for German Banks
Berlin, the 10th of December 2018- Berlin, the 10th of December 2018- Last year, Berlin based NGO Facing Finance and Framtiden from Norway uncovered that… Read More »EXPOSED: For the good of mankind! – The Nobel Prize Foundation continues to reward award winners with profits from irresponsible and unsustainable investments, thus violating its own guidelines
