Financial services companies play an integral role in the global context of corporate responsibility and sustainability.
Investors sway and shape company expectations and activities across every sector, so the challenge is twofold: Be a responsible global company, and influence the market in ways that promote sustainable, ethical, and responsible growth.
We work with a broad range of financial services sectors—including asset management, credit cards, retail banking, socially responsible investing (SRI), investment banking, and insurance—to integrate corporate responsibility into core business strategies and address industry-specific challenges.
Our Impact
Visa USA, Inc.
See how we helped Visa develop a corporate strategy that reaches beyond current philanthropic initiatives and integrates CSR strategy with business objectives.
Issue Areas
- Access to finance and financial education
- Climate change
- Environmental footprint
- Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria in investments
- Privacy and data security
- Project finance
- Reporting and transparency
- Responsible lending
Dig Deeper
- BSR Financial Services Expertise Overview
- ESG Investment for Companies: Concept Note
- ESG in the Mainstream: The Role for Companies and Investors in Environmental, Social, and Governance Integration
- ESG: Moving to Mainstream Investing?
- Word from the Street: Water
- Word from the Street: Toxicity and Health
Sample Member Companies
- The Allstate Corporation
- American Express Company
- ANZ Banking Group Limited
- Barclays Bank PLC
- BNY Mellon
- Calvert Group, Ltd.
- Citigroup Inc.
- General Electric Company
- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
- New Resource Bank
- The Redwoods Group
- Risk Metrics Group
- Rockefeller & Company
- Standard & Poor's
- State Street Corporation
- Tsing Capital
- Visa USA, Inc.
- Wells Fargo & Company