MICROFINANCE EVENT: Royal Netherlands Embassy, Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV) to Host Roundtable Discussion on “Real” Banking for the Real Economy: Can Values-based Banking Sustainably Finance the Future?, September 22, 2011, in Washington DC, USA

Event Name: “Real” Banking for the Real Economy: Can Values-based Banking Sustainably Finance the Future?

Event Date: September 22, 2011; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Event Location: Washington, DC, USA

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Cost: Free

Summary of Event: This roundtable discussion, hosted by The Royal Netherlands Embassy and Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), a nonprofit network of fourteen sustainable banks, will feature practitioners from the international sustainable finance industry and define what values-based banks are and the role they can play in supporting economic growth and development. The event will be opened by the Dutch Ambassador to the US, Renée Jones-Bos, and the panel includes Peter Blom, GABV Chair and CEO of Triodos Bank of the Netherlands; Luis Felipe Derteano, President of Peru’s Grupo ACP; Tamara Vrooman, CEO of Vancity, a Canadian credit union; Rosalind Copisarow, Managing Director of Oikocredit, a Dutch cooperative investment fund; and Eugene Ludwig, CEO of US-based Promontory Financial Group.

Background on Organizers: The Royal Netherlands Embassy promotes relations between the Netherlands and other countries in areas such as peace and stability, international law, energy and climate, water management and international human rights.

The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), founded in 2009, is a network of fourteen sustainable banks from Asia, Latin America, the US and Europe. GABV works to find “global solutions to international problems” and to promote a viable alternative to current financial systems using sustainable banking. As of 2011, GABV members had cumulative assets of approximately USD 26 billion.

Event Website: http://dc.the-netherlands.org/News/Press_Releases/The_Future_of_Banking

For additional information, you may contact Ms Linda Grangervia via email at was-ea@minbuza.nl or via telephone at +1 202 274 2615.

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By Nisha Koul, Research Associate

Sources and Additional Resources:

The Royal Netherlands Embassy, Press Release, “The Future of Banking?” http://dc.the-netherlands.org/News/Press_Releases/The_Future_of_Banking

Global Alliance for Banking on Values, News, “Royal Netherlands Embassy hosts sustainable finance round table,” http://www.gabv.org/news/2011-09-16-royal-netherlands-embassy-host-sustainable-finance-round-table.htm

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