Rupert Jones December 18, 2006 Guardian Unlimited Britain should follow America's example and consider forcing banks to disclose more information about their lending and investment in deprived areas as part of the fight against financial exclusion, according to...
This new report issued by the New Economics Foundation in London, England, and Woodstock Institute in Chicago, shows the huge disparity in the amount of bank performance data from lower-income neighborhoods available in the U.S. and the U.K. This...
Jane Croft December 16, 2006 Financial Times Banks should be more transparent about disclosing details of their lending in socially deprived areas to help tackle financial exclusion following the US model, says a report. A study by the...
Whitni Thomas and Jessica Brown, new economics foundation Malcolm Bush and Geoff Smith, Woodstock Institute This report seeks to reinvigorate the debate on bank disclosure in the UK and to create a better understanding of why it should be...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Geoff Smith, Research Director, Woodstock Institute: (312) 427 8070 Malcolm Bush, President, Woodstock Institute, mbush@woodstockinst.org Jessica Brown, Project Leader, new economics foundation, jessica.brown@neweconomics.org Full Disclosure Why Bank Transparency Matters: a...