Ethical investing: your guide to ethical banking

There are plenty of ESG funds to choose from – but what about your day-to-day saving and spending needs? We look at the best ethical current and savings accounts

When it comes to ethical investing, most of us immediately think of funds and which companies we’re investing our money in. But what about your run-of-the-mill, day-to-day banking needs? While an environmental, social and governance (ESG) focus is the most recent incarnation of the phenomenon, savings institutions have a long history of what might be described as social activism (for want of a better term), with mutually-owned building societies and credit unions, for example, set up to provide financial products for their members in order to develop local economies.

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