MICROCAPITAL STORY: Financial Times Releases Sustainable Banking Report, Including Many Microfinance Articles

The Financial Times today released a special report on sustainable banking that can be downloaded free of charge. The report website highlights the following articles that appear in the report:

  • Retreat to bottom line not an option
  • Surviving the credit squeeze will not stop the drive to sustainability, says John Willman
  • Europe’s emerging economies: Investors blowing hot and cold on the Baltic
  • EU regulation is driving a renewable energy boom in the region, writes Jan Cienski
  • Lars Thunell: Poor farmers need level field
  • The IFC chief talks to Chris Bryant about the ethics of microfinance lending
  • Micro-insurance: Cover for those who cannot afford to lose
  • Companies stretch their reach to the very poor, writes Andrea Felsted
  • Innovation: Opportunity in a brave new world
  • Ben White explains how investors have become much more sophisticated
  • Case study: Iryan mine sparks green approach
  • Michael Steen looks at the Dutch bank’s approach to project finance
  • Overview: Microfinance unlocks potential of the poor
  • Large banks are realising the value of small savers, reports Sarah Murray
  • The basics: Mobile phone operators revolutionise cash transfers
  • The 3bn without bank accounts can send money at the press of a button, writes Ross Tieman
  • Savings accounts: African farmers sow more profitable seeds
  • Tom Burgis reports on the impact of new products for the ‘unbankable’
  • Microfinance: Bank welcomes India’s poor
  • Amy Yee on the city dwellers who are being offered a fighting chance
  • Financial training: Race between education and disaster
  • Carbon: Benefits of trading trickling southwards
  • Investment: Investors jump on environmental wagon
  • Emerging markets: Local conditions dictate the development of services
  • Guest column: Banking on the poor is a risky business
  • Case study: IBC hopes to emulate best of the rest

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