How Financial Institutions Can Manage Human Rights Impacts in an Uncertain U.S. Landscape


In commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights, BSR invites financial services companies to a webinar on rights-respecting finance in an uncertain U.S. landscape.

Recent rollbacks in the protection of reproductive rights, LGBTIQ+ rights, and gun safety laws coupled with a polarized political environment and contradictory regulatory regimes across the U.S are creating new challenges and uncertainties for financial services companies. This undermines their ability to responsibly manage their impacts on people, including customers, employees, and affected stakeholders in their value chains, and poses a range of legal, reputational, and financial risks.

To explore how financial services companies can respond in a rights-respecting manner, we will explore:

  • The material risks financial services companies may face in the current fragmented and contradictory legal landscape.
  • The actual and potential human rights impacts that financial services companies may cause, contribute to, or be directly linked with as part of their own operations and business relationships.
  • How financial services companies may incorporate a human rights framework into their business practices to address salient human rights issues.
  • As part of our discussion, we will facilitate a Q&A to address key questions and comments from the audience on the issues.

Scheduled Speakers

  • Maura Keaney, Senior Vice President, Director of Client Engagement, Amalgamated Bank
  • Susan Morgan, CGRE Project Advisor
  • Laura Gitman, Chief Impact Officer, BSR
  • Paloma Muñoz Quick, Director, Human Rights Standards, BSR