Talk:Ethical banking

List

 * Cultura Sparebank
 * GLS bank
 * Grameen Bank
 * Jamii Bora
 * Microcredit
 * Microfinance
 * Oikocredit
 * Shared Interest

Please help determine if the above entries should be listed in the article. Thank you. - jc37 06:15, 27 November 2007 (UTC)


 * The list was generated from Category:Ethical bank which was deleted per a WP:CFD discussion, 2007/11/21 . --Lquilter (talk) 19:08, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

This article doesn't even pretend to be encyclopedic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.254.144.228 (talk) 01:48, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * This comment doesn't even pretend to be constructive. - Vianello (talk) 01:51, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Global Alliance
See References and link, is definitely an ethical finance operation. Just fine.

Social Banking
Social Banking redirects to this page. I believe Social Banking is different. According to Gartner Group in an article from 6 Feb 2008, titled: Gartner Says Social Banking Platforms Threaten Traditional Banks for Control of Financial Relationships Social banking is the combination of social trends, such as green practices, social entrepreneurship, and peer-to-peer (P2P) lending and financial planning via social networks, with banking products and services. Venture capital investment in financial social networks (FSNs) such as Zopa, Prosper and Lending Club, as well as Virgin USA's acquisition of a majority stake in CircleLending point to the growing prevalence of FSNs and increasing consumer interest in this area.

I suggest a new article called Social Banking.

--Gotfredsen (talk) 12:10, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

I agree, a new article called Social Banking would be a great differentiation. SocentSocinvest (talk) 16:08, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

"Social" is from the political ideology of "Socialism", that might be out of place for many, especially nowadays. "Ethical", is a congregation of values that combined give a larger view of human behaviours. Using "Social banking" we describe only a portion of the issue, and so the need to add specific sectors as: "Micro credit", "Micro finance", "Sustainable trade" and so on.

Aristotle
I just wonder if the interpretation of "Law" is correct when it comes to Aristotle. The author of that paragraph seems to talk about convential law whereas Aristotle held natural law to be the moral conerstone and I am just guessing that according to Aristotle Banks should be managed in accordance with natural law

Awful article.
I think ethical banking is an interesting and worthwhile subject. But this article sounds like a fanboy wrote it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.78.89.69 (talk) 02:11, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

This article is completely pointless and is terribly written. Should petition to delete... it's not even notable 203.110.235.131 (talk) 05:52, 29 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I've removed some SPAM, but it seems reasonably objective in tone. It's clearly a notable topic, but the current article needs more references to support this. hgilbert (talk) 16:41, 6 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Agreeing to all three posts all at the same time. I don't know how to feel about this article, really. Brooksandkat500 (talk) 09:48, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Global Alliance for Banking on Values
I'm not sure that organization deserves the label "most notable" in the context of this article. I checked several members, e.g. the single credit union out of the whole set didn't state clearly that it was non-profit! And one bank found the need to state that its shares were trade-able on whatever exchange. Is someone investigating the ethics/sustainability of a bank going to be interested in buying/selling the bank's shares? Only in exploiting ethics/sustainability as merely a profit opportunity! Rtdrury (talk) 00:08, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Clearly speaking, a non-profit bank is a non-sense. A bank can have a low interest rate, but never no profit, how they can possibly survive? A NGO can be no profit because most of the time is a cover operation for dirty government propaganda or such. Other simply live on gifts, bur their purpose is not dealing with money like a bank, substantial difference!

(Multiple) links to listed companies
As much as I applaude ethical banking, I don't expect Wikipedia to resemble Yellow Pages. In particular the list of banks per country is a list of external links. Only some of the banks have their own article on WP. In my opinion the names of those banks should link to their respective WP-articles or be dull black text. Their own page or stub could then have an external link to their homepage.

I don't want to vandalize someones work on the links, so I won't make rash changes to the links. Boudewijn (talk) 22:47, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

I agree that the article need to be re-made, i already started, but i'm not the author. Regarding the list as "Yellow Pages" i have hundreds of pages from wikipedia that are ONLY list, not an explanation. I also noticed that Co-operative bank is the kind of business that only paint of green their marketing. Regards.EB (talk) 11:44, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

"Judging what is ethical" section
This section seems to be rather questionable, as (1) it purports to summarize all of ethics, a purpose better served by a link to appropriate articles, and (2) it seems to violate WP:SYN, as there is no explicit connection drawn in any cited source connecting these philosophers to ethical banking. Any thoughts? HGilbert (talk) 10:53, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

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