This week the Big Four UK banks — Lloyds, NatWest, Barclays and HSBC — announced pre-tax profits of £44.3 billion - an average of 66 per …
Bank of England & QE
What we need to see in the government’s Green Finance Strategy
June, 2022 -The government’s asking the public’s opinion on how far and fast it should ‘green’ our financial system. So thousands of us are …
Slavery & the Bank: acknowledgement is not action
Positive Money staff team recently took a guided tour of The Bank of England Museum “Slavery & the Bank” exhibition, which explored how …
25 years of Bank of England independence shows we need a new approach
This week marks 25 years since arguably the biggest change to UK economic policy that no one voted for - the handing over of control of …
The government-engineered housing boom will hold back the recovery
The UK housing market has become detached from the real economy. Far from ‘levelling up’, measures by the Treasury and the Bank of …
Encourage green lending to Build Back Better, government and Bank of England told – report
London, 23 June 2021 Report calls on policymakers to regulate private finance and unleash green investment Recent changes to the Bank …
The Bank of England is delaying the inevitable on climate capital rules
Penalising dirty lending is necessary to ensure financial stability and support net-zero. While the regulatory reforms triggered by the …
Sunak urged to stop bankers fuelling climate crisis in Budget
London, 24 February 2021 Rishi Sunak should use his upcoming Budget to enable the Bank of England to shift billions of pounds away from …
Labour needs new thinking
London, 13th January 2020 Positive Money response to Labour macroeconomic framework Responding to Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds’ …