The UNEP Inquiry The Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System has been initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme to advance policy options to improve the financial system’s effectiveness in mobilizing capital towards a green and inclusive economy—in other words, sustainable development. Established in January 2014, it …
“MARKETS’ GROWING PROBLEM TWINS: ADVERTISING and TRADING“
©2019 Hazel Henderson Markets are ubiquitous in all human societies. Since earliest times, when they were conducted using shells, wampum, cattle, or in rituals and potlatches, markets evolved using metal coins, silver and gold, then paper, government-issued fiat and now morphing into today’s crypto currencies. Today, two familiar offspring of markets: advertising and trading have …
Post live on the Electronic Markets Paper – UNEP Inquiry
Will financial technology disrupt the green economy? The UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System highlights a ‘quiet revolution’ of green financial policy making: regulators, policymakers and private standard setters around the world exploring steps to align finance with sustainability. This quiet revolution is becoming louder, and …
Ethical Markets Supports IEX Filing with SEC
Ethical Markets submitted comments to the SEC in support of Investors’ Exchange LLC. Our letter to the SEC is co-signed by our Advisory Board members Robert Monks, Linda Crompton and Kim Ann Curtin. We included in our Fedex to Chair Mary Jo White, a copy of our expert seminar report …
Press release: IOSCO continues to reinforce its position as key global reference point for markets regulation
IOSCO continues to reinforce its position as key global reference point for markets regulation Ethical Markets welcomes IOSCO’s initiatives to strengthen and harmonize international architecture and regulation of financial markets. We are increasingly concerned about excessive high-frequency trading(HFT) and domination of markets by this and algorithmic trading , as …
Computer-driven financial markets on unregulated electronic exchanges
Computer-driven financial markets on unregulated electronic exchanges programmed by algorithms now dominate Wall Street, along with high-frequency trading (HFT). The infamous “Flash Crash” in May 2010, driven by electronic trading, caused stocks in many 401Ks to suddenly fall to pennies and recover in split seconds. Small investors lost confidence, pulling …
Ethical Markets Review: Looking Back From 2020 – Humanity’s Transition to the Ethical Green Global Economy
By Hazel Henderson © 2011 Scenario for discussion at the Reunion of Pioneer Asset Managers Convened by Susan Davis, President, CapitalMissions.com Ethical Markets Media, Saint Augustine, FL, November 18-20, 2011 Related Article: Can Jeremy Grantham Profit From Ecological Mayhem? Looking back from 2020, the initiatives that transformed our global economy …
Reforming the Global Casino
April 14, 2009. As a respected evolutionary economist, Hazel Henderson is one of the few who deeply understands both the cause of our current financial crisis and the solutions required to go beyond it long-term. In this Shift in Action radio show with host Stephen Dinan, you’ll get a deeper …
More Advice for Summiteers on Reforming the Global Casino
By Hazel Henderson © 2009 Prepared for the Emergency Congress – “From Crisis to a Just and Sustainable World Economy” London, February 23-25, 2009 The following is a presentation to the emergency congress in London co-sponsored by Tomorrow’s Company, the South African Human Rights Commission and Rights and Humanity, Feb. …
ADVICE FOR SUMMITEERS ON REFORMING THE GLOBAL CASINO
By Hazel Henderson © 2008 Hazel Henderson November 15, 2008, will at last see a summit on how to reform failed global finance. Invited to the USA, the heart of the failures, by President George W. Bush will be the “leaders” of global finance. Architects of the failure range from …