How banking became green

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In the first of a three-part series, Victoria Pennington explores how environmental issues are affecting the financial services industry and informing banks' credit and market risk assessments

The fallout from the subprime crisis permeated – and travelled across – all risk types. From the seeds of operational risk failures in underwriting processes, problems migrated to credit and market risk...

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