ESG
New York Fed researchers found that banks operating in areas hit by tornadoes, floods and other calamities weren’t financially hurt by those disasters. That surprising result comes with significant caveats, however.
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Robyn Luhning, the bank’s head of environmental and social risk management, takes the position at a time when financing for the fossil-fuel industry faces scrutiny. Other large banks have created similar roles in recent years.
April 4 -
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is the second U.S. regulator to outline strategic planning and other steps banks with more than $100 billion of assets can take to minimize damage from severe weather events and the transition to a low-carbon economy.
March 30
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Climate activists have forced votes this spring on whether big banks should move more aggressively to cut off their financing of fossil-fuel companies.
March 29 -
A group of religiously affiliated shareholders that had pushed the bank to write the report says it does not include the voices of key stakeholders. The report's recommendations, written by an outside law firm, touch on workforce diversity, customer remediation and preventing retaliation against employees.
March 15 -
Billions of government and corporate dollars are pouring into minority banks and community development lenders, complicating the efforts of some investment funds that had similar goals. Still, banks owned and run by African Americans say the equity infusions are small in the context of the nation’s wide racial wealth gap.
January 10 -
The largest U.S. banks have made progress in detailing the risks posed by climate change, but it's clear the industry will have to do more. As federal regulators prepare to impose new obligations, banks are pushing back against calls for more aggressive measures such as capital requirements and increased risk weighting for fossil-fuel lending.
January 9
