Bank of England Action 2019 On Thursday 2nd May, Positive Money staff, supporters and members of the grassroots divestment group Fossil …
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Cash machine charges will hit poor hardest: Positive Money comment on free ATM closures
Responding to research by Which? showing that 1,700 ATMs switched to charging in the first three months of 2019, David Clarke, head of …
Bank of England pension scheme responds to our letter, pledging to report on climate risk
Last week heralded a major breakthrough in how the Bank of England is responding to the risks posed by climate change. Governor Mark Carney …
Major breakthroughs on central banks and climate change
Major breakthroughs on central banks and climate change If we’re going to stop irreversible climate change, we need to decarbonise our …
Labour commits to keep RBS public after our campaign
Our campaign to stop the RBS sell-off scored a big victory this week as Labour announced plans to keep the bank in public ownership, with a …
Modern Monetary Theory and Positive Money, Part 3: Shadow Banking
As part of our series of blogs examining the relationship between Modern Monetary Theory and Positive Money’s proposals, this guest post by …
Stop the RBS sell-off! Sign our petition to Philip Hammond
Today we’re releasing poll results which show that only a fraction of people support the Government’s plans to sell off RBS in the near …
Making RBS work in the public interest
This blog originally appeared on Left Foot Forward. As RBS bosses yesterday sat down to their AGM with a plan to speed up the bank’s …
Financial regulators finally act on climate change but must go further, faster
The UK’s financial regulators are finally taking action to address the profound risks that climate change poses to the firms they supervise, …