Overview
- Addresses two key perspectives: measurement and performance and products and business models
- Examines the relationship between business models and non-financial impact, both environmental and social
- Focuses on the gender gap
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance (SIF)
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The notion of sustainable development is applied to financial activities through sustainable finance. As a result, sustainable finance attempts to produce long-term value by allocating capital to projects that, in addition to providing economic benefits, are furthermore beneficial to society and do not burden the environment.
This book sheds light on contemporary challenges in sustainable finance, addressing two key perspectives: measurement and performance, and products and business models. In particular, the volume examines theoretically and empirically the relations between business models and non-financial impact, both environmental and social; as for the social goals, a special focus of the book is dedicated to the gender gap.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Performance
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mario La Torre is currently full professor in Banking and Finance at the Department of Management, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Mario does research in Banking, Financial Intermediaries and Financial Markets, Impact Finance and Ethical Finance, and Finance for Culture and Media Industry. He is the author and co-author of many international books and papers and is the editor of the series Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance. Mario is Responsible for the Center for Positive Finance and has promoted the University Alliance for Positive Finance; he is the author of the Blog "Good in Finance".
Sabrina Leo is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is a Lecturer in Bank accounts strategies and performance and Digital Banking and Economics of Financial Intermediaries. Her primary areas of research are related to traditional topics and innovative ones. The first is related to the banking and financial market, credit management policies and financial intermediaries, the regulation of non-bank financial intermediaries. The second looks at DLT, Digital Payments, IT Governance in banks, Microfinance, Impact and Sustainable Banking, Social Impact Finance, Audio-visual, and Art Finance. More recently, she has been focusing on innovation in the payment system and the impact of technologies in the financial system. She is the author and co-author of many international papers, and co-author of national books. She is a Research Fellow of D€A – Digital Euro Association. She was a Scientific Observer of the Italian Advisory Board at the G8 Task Force on Social Impact Investments.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Finance
Book Subtitle: Exploring Performance, Impact Measurement and Financial Inclusion
Editors: Mario La Torre, Sabrina Leo
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22539-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22538-3Published: 03 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22541-3Published: 03 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22539-0Published: 02 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-5105
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5113
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 294
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Financial Services, Development Economics, Sustainable Development