Positive Response to the Sustainable Financing in Banking Industry
Exploring the Impact of Sustainable Financing in the Banking Industry
by A. Zeeshan Ali*, Dr. Pawan Kumar Verma,
- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540
Volume 15, Issue No. 1, Apr 2018, Pages 832 - 835 (4)
Published by: Ignited Minds Journals
ABSTRACT
Sustainable financing is being practiced by financial institutions all over the world for creating economic and social values adopting policies, systems, and models to reduce the environmental and social cost incurred in the course of business. In many countries, financial institutions adopt pro-environment and sustainable financial models, design innovative eco-friendly products and create markets to make this world more sustainable. The study revealed a positive response in implementing the sustainability issues by the banks in various capacities under the guidance of the Central Bank. The outcome of the paper is expected unveil the position of the bank practitioners and policy makers about the sustainability concepts and current status sustainability initiatives taken by the regulatory authority in the banking industry.
KEYWORD
positive response, sustainable financing, banking industry, economic and social values, policies, systems, models, environmental and social cost, pro-environment, sustainable financial models, eco-friendly products, markets, position of the bank practitioners, policy makers, sustainability concepts, current status, sustainability initiatives, regulatory authority
I. INTRODUCTION
In recent days, the banking industry extensively features business and investment banks, microfinance institutions, leasing companies, along with other related institutions. All of these types of financial institutions are actually united by way of the reality that they intermediate financial flows by borrowing money from specific depositors or maybe a wider range of organizations and channel these financial assets to corporate and individual borrowers, largely in the type of business and business lending. Institutions which often provide financial expertise to the customers of theirs on a temporary basis and charge fees for providing the financial information of theirs are actually performing much more rigorous intermediary job for the economy as compared to institutions which purchase the equity of businesses. For deposit-taking financial institutions, minimizing threats and discovering new means to draw in clients are actually huge business objectives that guide the whole flow of the operations of theirs. Banking business holds a distinctive position with regard to sustainable development due to their intermediation perform involving borrowers as well as depositors. Sustainability is now frequently recognized as central to the development of emerging market economies. For the banking sector, that presents both a need for the higher public as well as environmental responsibility and also a brand new landscape of business opportunity. Lately, the banks started to notice the main effect of the sustainable development with the way of ulterior improvement of the society and also, implicitly with the way of making the banking value down the road.
Banks throughout the world have gotten a significant quantity of stress from the several stakeholders of its such as shareholders, investors, media, customers and NGOs to hold out business in an ethical and responsible fashion. Being a result, improved consciousness‘s with respect to sustainability problems for financial institutions have been found throughout the world throughout the previous ten years. Scientists contend this socially irresponsible operation is able to have a negative influence on share prices as well as the brand track record of a bank and many more clients now one day frequently inquire about the bank's cultural responsibility job. In effect, socially responsible investors collectively have voiced concern on businesses to take into consideration contemporary global problems for instance business responsibility on climate change recently. Likewise, the other impressive stakeholders that have considerably shaped the problems and brought these to public sentiment are actually the state regulatory bodies, media's, NGOs in addressing community responsibility problems in banking sector
II. SUSTAINABILITY FINANCING
Sustainability financing is actually nowadays a worldwide concern for financial institutions across the globe. It not adequate to make a profit and excel in the progress in case it doesn't deal with the sustainability of the ecosystem. It's ultimately the peoples' interest which should be in addition to
effort in order to minimize the environmental vulnerability as well as to ensure sustainability offering eco-friendly banking. Greener baking originally focused on in house eco-friendly exercise through decreasing use of the issues those have passively or actively negative effect on environment. Banks, then, initiated applications to finance in tasks those are environment-friendly, power-efficient as well as pro-people. Financing for sustainability is currently have come up with a big window of environmentally friendly banking for banking business. A lot of nations have created the green banking guidelines of theirs, sketched the eco-friendly financing program and then embraced them in mainstream banking of theirs. Sustainable growth emerged aiming the aim of enhancing the prosperity of a nation by setting up a balance among economic growth, social responsibility and environmental preservation, which was initially used in the United Nations Stockholm Human and Environment Conference in 1972. Nevertheless, it first appeared in the literature of the United Nations World Environment and Development Report in 1987 at the conceptual level. Steadily, financial sectors have come to recognize that the economic system is actually, in a way or any other, interlinked environmental systems; it's usually much more crucial to delivering the surroundings than to maximize profit as, in the long term, it keeps the entire program completely alive & functional. The banking sector, the driving force of the economic growth as well as development, finds the ground of it‘s as a monetary phone system to think of merchandise, policies, and processes to help as well as promote pro-environment methods in financial methods. Theoretical Concepts Related to Sustainable Banking Sustainability and sustainability is all about ensuring long-lasting business success, while contributing towards social and economic development, a great planet and a healthy society. IFC's definition of sustainability, used in this specific article as put on to financial institutions, encompassing 4 dimensions of good business performance: • The financial sustainability of the financial institution as well as the client companies of its, in order that they can continue making a long term contribution to the growth • The economic sustainability of the tasks as well as businesses the financial institution finances, through the contribution of theirs to host economies • Environmental sustainability with the preservation of healthy resources • Social sustainability through enhanced living standards, poverty reduction, concern for the
III. FINANCIAL POLICY AND REGULATION
Around the planet, public authorities are actually deepening attempts to arrange financial devices with sustainable development. The Rationale for Policy along with Regulatory Action Public authorities - like other bodies, supervisors, regulators, central banks, and governments - are actually taking legislative, policy, regulatory, as well as supervisory measures to attain a range of goals linking sustainability and also the financial system, these kinds of as: Enhancing promote train, including attempts that mainstream environmental aspects into financial decision making as well as correct for market problems (such unpriced environmental externalities); Supporting promote development, which includes policy frameworks as well as standards which give the issuance of environmentally friendly financial programs (which is actually, eco-friendly bonds as well as securities), the improvement of new market platforms (that is actually, crowdfunding and fintech), or maybe the competitiveness of financial centres; Promoting productivity and transparency, by boosting flows of sustainability info with the financial system through voluntary assistance, labelling schemes, and necessary requirements; Strengthening risk management, typically by combining environmental elements (such as transition-related and physical weather risks) into the prudential oversight of financial institutions, supervising financial markets, as well as giving system level stress testing; and industry Facilitating services and flows, with investment and lending to priority sectors, limitations or restrictions on financing, insurance needs, or maybe the provision of financial services as a means to market inclusion as well as assistance development; Clarifying authorized frameworks, like the fiduciary duties of financial institutions, with regard to long-range risks as well as opportunities (such as climate change); as well as Enhancing conduct & behaviour, with codes of guidelines and conduct for environmental problems as well as compacts with FIs.
IV. THE GLOBAL POLICY AND REGULATORY LANDSCAPE OF
SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
sustainability features a great deal of history. Instances of public interventions started with first frameworks for ethical also the socially responsible investment of the 1990s, as well as included simple guidelines for the disclosure of environmental info in business reporting. To follow the financial problem, a growing number of public authorities started taking action on sustainability, leading to a constant expansion of the number, scope, and typologies of measures. One of the more substantial changes in the past few years is a significant rise in system-level methods - such as huge policy packages to advance sustainable finance throughout asset classes. Of particular note are actually China's 2016 Green Finance Guidelines (PBoC 2016b), which set out certain provisions to incentivize as well as increase green loans, eco-friendly bonds, eco-friendly funds, eco-friendly insurance, and necessary environmental info disclosures. Recently available years have noticed a marked increase in international measures, as sustainable finance has been taken up by international standard-setting institutions as well as regional bodies like the European Commission. Additionally, there continues to be a significant rise in policy methods centered on certain asset classes (that is actually, securities markets), which are actually applicable to an extensive range of financial stakeholders - a critical example being attempts to allow for the improvement of environmentally friendly bond markets by offering standards as well as direction.
V. SUSTAINABLE BANKING IN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Banks in India have a considerable impact on the safeguarding of delicate community groups as well as environments in Asia. Within this particular time, they have to really think about the perceptions of theirs towards accountable lending both globally and nationally. This shows the ignorance in the part of Indian banks regarding green banking initiatives at the international level. Based on Indian Banks Association, the green bank is actually similar to a typical bank, which considers all of the environmental and social/ecological aspects with an aim to defend the atmosphere & help save natural resources. It's likewise referred to as the sustainable bank or maybe honest bank. Eco-friendly Banking isn't just a CSR activity of a company, but additionally an initiative of creating a habitable society. The Financial Times and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a fellow member of the World Bank Group had launched the Sustainable Finance Awards for the institutions which are integrating corporate, environmental, and social governance concerns to their company operations that there's demand from a change from the profit, profit and the profit motive to the world, individuals as well as profit'. Eco-friendly banking calls for pursuing financial and company policies that aren't dangerous to help and the environment to protect the environment. The purposes of environmentally friendly banking are actually using materials with duty staying away from waste and giving priority to society and the environment.
VI. CONCLUSION
Sustainable financing has turned into a gigantic instrument for banking industries to deliver the consumers via a serving environment. It's today, as clear as daylight which financing in sustainable sectors not just enhance the environmental security of the habitat of ours but additionally succeed the benefit of the mom business via creating its own social as well as economic picture of the society, in the land, and also on the planet like an entire. Hence the proposed analysis is actually a modest effort to shed light on the usually interested problems of the present time, i.e. sustainability problems in the banking business. Banks are actually told to go by several of the policy guidelines from the central bank and at the very same time banks will also be acquainted with several of the sustainable products & services including natural banking through technological development of the banking operation, environmental risk rating in the procedure of credit appraisal, diversified deposit & credit platform for banks with the financial inclusion etc.
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Corresponding Author A. Zeeshan Ali*
Research Scholar, Department of Management, OPJS University, Churu, Rajasthan baindasunil123@gmail.com